The Middle Class Is Increasingly Becoming “The Impoverished Class”, And The Poor Are Increasingly Being Pushed Into The Streets

September 12, 2023 by Michael ShareTweet America’s middle class is being systematically eviscerated.  When the Federal Reserve pumped trillions of dollars into the financial system during the pandemic, most Americans didn’t realize what that would do to them.  That money certainly made the wealthy a whole lot wealthier, […]

Cop City and the Silencing of Dissent

September 15, 2023 “Tearing down trees in Black and brown communities at a moment of reckoning with the climate crisis to perpetuate the prison-industrial complex demonstrates an astounding lack of morality,” write representatives Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush of Atlanta’s Cop City. Last week, Georgia’s Republican attorney general […]

The New Colonialist Food Economy

FEATURED The New Colonialist Food Economy How Bill Gates and agribusiness giants are throttling small farmers in Africa and the Global South. ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK FROM THIS ISSUE America’s Short-Lived Safety Net Has Almost Fully Unraveled The American Rescue Plan created unprecedented programs protecting parents and young children, renters, […]

A Musk genius

September 16, 2023   A NOTE FROM FORTUNE Fortune executive editor Nick Lichtenberg here, filling in for Alyson.   This week, the big one dropped. Walter Isaacson, the former Time editor turned documenter of genius brains from Leonardo da Vinci to Albert Einstein to Steve Jobs, dropped his much anticipated all-access […]

Your manager is burnt out

September 16, 2023 • 4 min read with Diamond Naga Siu Welcome to the weekend, friends! I’m hoping to play a bit of pickleball now that the weather is cooling down. If you’re interested in trying it out or are just starting, a professional player revealed what new […]

A Marx for All Seasons

In the Review’s September 21, 2023, issue, Ben Tarnoff reviews two recent books on the history of Silicon Valley, where “money begets money with an ease that would make Andrew Carnegie weep.” His essay ends with a reflection on the “neurotic character” of most of the region’s capitalists, who champion […]

Round-Table #88: 2024 US Election: Tomorrow at 2 pm Eastern.

I will be joined by Keith Preston and due to schedule and life changes Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy will be replaced by Florian Ulrich and Aleksey. We will discuss predictions on the 2024 Election. My Contact Info: Locals: https://praiseoffolly.locals.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PoFPodcast Telegram: t.me/PraiseOfFolly_1511 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PraiseOfFoll… BuyMeACoffe: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PraiseOf… […]

Your knockoff’s hidden cost

September 15, 2023 • with Dan DeFrancesco Happy Friday! Sen. Mitt Romney smothering salmon in ketchup is bad, but I’d argue you shouldn’t cover anything in ketchup. Grow up and use a real condiment like mustard or barbecue sauce. In today’s big story, we’re looking at the booming […]

The China Convergence

Yes, the West is becoming more like China. Here is the real reason why. N.S. Lyons Aug 3, 2023 Well, actually… I do believe this is the longest thing I’ve ever written, but also the most important. Read with a stiff drink. – N.S. Lyons Differences and tensions […]

Making it up

Dear Reader, A few weeks ago, the corner of right-wing social media preoccupied with political philosophy was atwitter with discussion of the pseudonymous writer N.S. Lyons’s long new essay, “The China Convergence,” which examined the developments and similarities of the U.S. managerial regime and the Chinese party state. […]

Breakthrough or Break-In?

By William S. Lind, Traditional Right The papers are full of reports that the Ukrainians have broken through on their southern front, opening the way for an armored offensive on the operational level.  Such an offensive could seek either to destroy the Russian army by getting between it […]