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Nexus X HumectressBy Laurie Wastel Quillette Ever since Marx, the concept of class has been foundational to sociology—as well as to almost everything else. This would not have surprised the German economist, for class, as he saw it, determines all: one’s motivations, one’s social position, even one’s consciousness. Britain, where […]
LA Progressive The Supreme Court’s upcoming decision to reverse Roe v. Wade (an early draft of which was leaked Monday) doesn’t ban abortions; it leaves the issue to the states. As a result, it will put another large brick in the growing wall separating Blue and Red America. […]
The Herland Report Herland Report: Massive Redistribution of Wealth: The Covid-19 virus makes billionaires’ fortune soar with massive profits. Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world, second only to Jeff Bezos – whose fortune also has rocketed during the pandemic. Bill Gates is left behind, […]
The Herland Report Herland Report: Ukraine-Russia War: The strategy of imposing economic sanctions in order to hurt Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, may produce an economic fallout that is different from what the leadership in Europe currently expects. The question is who will the sanctions hurt the […]
By Malcom Kyeyune Compact Rioting swept Sweden this Easter. Rasmus Paludan, a Danish far-right politician, had announced his intention to publicly burn the Quran in several Swedish cities. He successfully burned a copy of the Muslim holy book in the city of Jönköping, and intended to move on […]
By Darel E. Paul, Compact Across the West, right populism is in retreat. Both right and left liberals were shocked in 2016 by the victory of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. In 2017, things then went from bad to worse. Even as Emmanuel Macron emerged as […]
By Sohrab Ahmari, Compact Tuesday’s Manhattan Institute gala in New York City was a show of force from the establishment right. The assembled executives, foreign-policy hawks, and pro-business editorialists celebrated two of their own, Citadel Capital chief Ken Griffin and Wall Street Journal opinion editor Paul Gigot. The […]
This is complete divorce. But Russia was a donor for the Western economy. How will they explain later losses because of impossibility to sell their cars in Russia, absence of Russian tourists with their money in their hotels and restaurants, losses because of significant reduction of export of […]
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to the FDA limiting the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine due to blood clotting concerns
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to a report that alleges Tucker Carlson is a nationalist and discuss his reaction to the piece.
Former Ohio State Senator, Nina Turner, looks back at her rematch with Rep. Shontel Brown. She also details allegations that members of ‘the squad’ were threatened not to support her.
Vermont congressional candidate, Becca Balint, discusses her run for US Congress.
Emily Jashinsky explains that the “foundation for nationwide legalized abortion has always been fragile, but the media just wasn’t saying it.”
Ryan Grim details the reference to Matthew Hale in Justice Alito’s leaked abortion draft.
Co-founder of UltraViolet, Shaunna Thomas, discusses the organizing efforts taking place ahead of the Supreme Court potentially overturning Roe V Wade.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss the opposing views on the potential decision to overturn Roe V Wade with VP of Communications for Susan B. Anthony List, Mallory Carroll.
Krystal and Saagar point out the irony in the Jeff Bezos owned Washington Post article criticizing the billionaire boys club that media ownership has become
Krystal is joined by journalist Julia Rock of THE LEVER to better understand the corporate tax breaks in Senate legislation that Bernie Sanders was critical of
By Peter Weber, The Week Russia is concentrating most of its military efforts in Ukraine on trying to capture territory in the east and south of the country, but it continues to strike cities and towns across Ukraine. And on Tuesday and Wednesday those strikes targeted electrical substations, […]
By Joel Mathis The Week The Federal Reserve is going on offense against inflation. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday announced the biggest interest rate hike in two decades, and experts expect the Fed to raise the rate even more in the coming months. “The Fed’s suite of […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week Sofia Sapega, the Russian girlfriend of detained Belarusian dissident Roman Protasevich, was sentenced to six years in prison for inciting social hatred, Reuters reports Friday. Sapega was traveling with Protasevich last May when their flight was diverted to Minsk by Belarusian authorities. At […]
By Andrew Day, The Week Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has sparked a heated debate about NATO that boiled over into the Senate last week. Some argue that NATO’s eastward expansion precipitated the conflict by threatening Russian security. Others retort that because the alliance is purely defensive, the […]
By Peter Weber, The Week In the summer of 2020, unhappy about the flow of drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border, then-President Donald Trump asked his defense secretary, Mark Esper, if the U.S. military could “shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs,” Esper writes in his forthcoming […]
By Damon Linker, The Week In the days since the leaked draft of a majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade (1973) was published by Politico, Democrats have convinced themselves that this is a huge political gift for the party and an equally massive liability for Republicans — because the country […]
This appears to be an excellent podcast. Check out their archives here. MAY 6, 2022 E43 – En Marche? w/ Silyane Larcher E43 – En Marche? w/ Silyane Larcher Danny and Derek give updates on Ukraine (0:56), Finland and Sweden’s attempts to join NATO (17:40), Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s […]
By Andrew Sullivan Weekly Dish Douglas Murray is a British writer and commentator, primarily for The Spectator, and his latest book is The War on the West. It’s a powerful narrative of the past couple of decades, in which a small minority waged ideological war on the underpinnings […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ I’ve been watching The John Wayne Gacy Tapes on Netflix, which features previously unheard recordings of the serial killer known as “The Killer Clown” who murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men in the 1970s. I […]
Krystal Kyle & Friends From Roe v. Wade and its current peril to an inside retrospective on the Bernie 2020 campaign, we’ve got a lot to discuss this week, and we’re grateful to you for joining us. Our special guest is Ari Rabin-Havt, deputy campaign manager of Bernie […]
Socialist societies could exist regardless of their stance on abortion. It’s a cultural issue and therefore not core to a socialist project.
By Andrew Sullivan, Weekly Dish To say that a leaked draft of a Supreme Court ruling prompted an elite meltdown would be a gross understatement. This was a culture war 9/11. “I have typed and deleted a great many comments,” Roxane Gay tweeted. “What do you say when […]
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss the opposing views on the potential decision to overturn Roe V Wade with VP of Communications for Susan B. Anthony List, Mallory Carroll. Ryan Grim details the reference to Matthew Hale in Justice Alito’s leaked abortion draft. Emily Jashinsky explains that the […]
By Louis Gerald Plottel Punk and anarchism, as lived practices that espouse antiauthoritarianism and prefigurative politics as their guiding principles, share a close affinity. Yet, the political value of punk has tended to be overlooked in favour of the punk “identity.” This paper considers the overlapping politics of […]
Spring 2022 Issue Contents * = Full article available now at no cost Articles Capitalism, Slavery, and Matthew Desmond’s Low-Road Contribution to the 1619 Project * By Peter A. Coclanis The Political Economy of Modern Wildlife Management: How Commercialization Could Reduce Game Overabundance By Robert E. Wright “The Danger of […]
Krystal and Saagar talk about Roe being overturned, SCOTUS leak, Roe politics, Ohio primary results, Ukraine escalation, economic downturn, & more! Timestamps: Roe v Wade: 0:00 – 23:05 SCOTUS Leak: 23:06 – 35:29 Economy: 35:30 – 49:39 Ukraine: 49:40 – 1:01:19 Roe Politics: 1:01:20 – 1:13:34 JD Vance: […]
Republicanism permits the individual to persuade himself that the State is his creation, that State action is his action, that when it expresses itself it expresses him, and when it is glorified he is glorified. The republican State encourages this persuasion with all its power, aware that it […]
Todd Lewis will be joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy to discuss China’s gambit in the South Pacific broadly and the Solomon Islands more narrowly.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — the most consequential military conflict Europe has witnessed since the Second World War — has riveted the attention of the world. Observers have grappled with the meaning of the act of aggression and scrambled to ponder the wider implications of the war. Almost […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Multipolarista’s Ben Norton reports that Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva, who is still favored to beat Bolsonaro in the nation’s election later this year, has announced plans to create a Latin American currency called the “Sur” (South) […]
Articles by Jose Nino Thomas Massie Points Out an Inconvenient Truth about a Potential Roe v. Wade Reversal Sponsored Ad The leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion pointing to the Court overturning Roe v. Wade, has made many on the Right rejoicing about the prospects of abortion […]
The Fact-Free Logic of Samuel Alito Jordan Smith In his zeal to overturn Roe and do away with abortion rights, the Supreme Court justice relies on deceptive arguments and a regressive read of the law. READ MORE → Roe v. Wade Is About to Be Struck Down […]
by Peter Zeihan on May 6, 2022 The Ukrainian military has enjoyed an outsized amount of success when it comes to successfully finding–and eliminating–a variety of high-value Russian targets. The Ukrainian military did not have a reputation of hitting above their weight before the Russians invaded this past […]
About Richard Medhurst: #RichardMedhurst is an independent journalist and commentator born in Damascus. He is half British, half Syrian and speaks four languages: English, French, Arabic and German. His reporting focuses primarily on international relations, the Middle East and US politics, rooted in anti-imperialism. Medhurst is one of […]
“Anonymous donor”? He gave it to himself.
Isn’t it crazy how polls on important issues are always exactly evenly split? The same small handful of billionaires and corporations that own both parties is doing the divide and conquering strategy perfectly.
“Joe, you mean you haven’t gotten blown by an intern in the oval office?” – Bill.
This strategy is excellent! Especially considering how great that very same strategy worked out in 2016. 🙃
Let’s not forget the National Guard at Kent State University during the Vietnam War.
“The founders left it vague on purpose.” Ummm…the founders were dead for over a century by the time the 25th Amendment was written.
The problem being that the opinions are secret but not classified. Pretty hard to prosecute someone for not breaking a law.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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