3/6/23: Trump Dominates CPAC, Bannon Declares War on Fox News, New Norfolk Southern Train Derails, MSNBC Attacks Marianne, Russel Brand on Bill Maher, Amazon Bails On HQ2, Teenage Liberal Depression, Former Navy Pilot on UFOs

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Krystal and Saagar discuss Trump dominating at CPAC, Desantis short circuiting when asked about Trump endorsement, Steve Bannon declaring war on Fox News, another Norfolk Southern Train derails, Buttigieg concedes he needs to do more, MSNBC smears Marianne’s candidacy, Russel Brand goes viral on Bill Maher, Krystal looks […]

A cure for your phone addiction

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March 6, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Three years ago this month, COVID-19 cases skyrocketed in New York City. China was already under quarantine, Europe was in chaos, and New York quickly became the epicenter of the outbreak in the US. (Check out our 10-minute, Emmy-winning documentary about this time.) A […]

A Message From Your Jewish Comrade

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December 2, 2022 by Cyber Dandy   Let’s just begin with a few easily accessible statistics from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews#Demographics https://en.wikipedia.org/…/History_of_the_Jews_in_the… Jews are a multi-ethnic group totalling only 14.8 million, 0.2% of the 8 billion worldwide population. Two countries account for 81% of those recognised as Jews: the […]

Anarchy is for Anarchists

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March 4, 2023 by Cyber Dandy Image: Paul Humpoletz, “The Pied Piper of 1919”, “The Götz”, June, 1921. Anarchists often argue with opponents who have already assumed certain criteria for political philosophy. A capitalist will assume that rational self-interest is a predominant characteristic of human nature that is […]

Goldman in the hot seat

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March 5, 2023 Hi, I’m Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. Welcome back to Insider Today’s Sunday edition, a roundup of our top reads of the week.   On the agenda today: Elon Musk let other car companies catch up to Tesla. How Boomers’ […]

Vice Cop Vices

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Sponsored by Platform Books Sarah Schulman Red Lights, Blue Lines Three recent books examine the discrimination and hypocrisy at the heart of policing “vice.” Geoffrey Wheatcroft Bloody Panico The British Conservative Party was once one of the great popular political movements of Europe. What happened? Anjum Hasan Endless Trances […]

Touting ‘Ethnic Fusion,’ China’s New Top Official for Minority Affairs Envisions a Country Free of Cultural Difference

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March 3, 2023 ~ ABN Last October, China’s top officials convened the once-every-five-year congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to determine the leadership and political trajectory of the country for the next half decade. Xi Jinping secured a precedent-breaking third term as paramount leader of the Party, […]

How close is war with Iran?

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Ryan Grim 19 hr ago The prospect of war with Iran appears to be getting greater with each passing month – perhaps ratcheted to its highest threat in years last week with this comment from U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides, who said: “Israel can and should do […]

Capitalism Produces Socialism

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Andrew Willard Jones From the print magazine: This essay was originally published in New Polity Issue 2.4 (Fall 2021). Order the full issue here. Abstract There is a lot of talk these days about an increasing interest in socialism. It is quite the conundrum if approached within the […]

Your Airbnb is watching you

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March 4, 2023 Hello, Insiders. We shared a great story from our economy team yesterday, exploring the ways companies are “quietly firing” (or pushing out) workers. Has this happened to you? Have you ever had to quiet fire someone? Let us know: insidertoday@insider.com. But it’s our Saturday edition, […]

The Right to Be Artful

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Sponsored by Platform Books In John J. Lennon’s latest essay for the Review, he reads Sarah Weinman’s book Scoundrel, an account of the saga of the writer and convicted murderer Edgar Smith, who had once been championed by William F. Buckley. “As a journalist who covers criminal justice […]