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Nexus X HumectressImagine if we responded to corruption with the same vitriol as sexual misconduct. We basically give corruption a pass like “oh yeah we know it’s corrupt, but they are all corrupt.” As if that makes it better
Robby Soave describes the latest developments in Elon Musk’s attempted purchase of Twitter.
Krystal and Saagar update viewers on the progress being made by a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers on a possible ban of congressional stock trading after an online populist uprising
All these breast implants lead to inflation. So in a way he’s right!!! 😂
Ryan Grim explains the growing influence of Big Crypto in politics and campaigning.
Krystal and Saagar review the back and forth between a top Twitter shareholder Saudi royal and Elon Musk after he Tweeted about rejecting the bid made by Musk to buy the company
Right. So he hides all of his money in LLCs and then files for bankruptcy, so that none of the money is technically “his” money, and then tells the court that he has no money to pay any settlements
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss gun violence and rising crime in light of multiple mass shootings over the weekend.
Krystal and Saagar respond to an extended back and forth between Mitch McConnell and Axios journalist Jonathan Swan about his moral redlines and political career
Established social media giants are never removed by competition. They are only ever replaced by a different type of social media. Network effects make up such a large part of the utility of a social media platform that no new platform can ever hope to compete. Even established […]
Well, he really was homeless at one point. A Tennessee state senator last Wednesday used Adolf Hitler as an example of inspiration and hope for the homeless during a speech on the floor of the state’s upper chamber.
Krystal and Saagar bring the latest from commentator James Li on the role of Congressional staffers and how their conditions in the work place incentivize corruption and lead to government dysfunction
Chomsky has always been principled on this issue. Chomsky says “we are responsible for what we do.” Of course, his view on Iraq is going to be qualitatively different than what the US ought to do in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The two wars aren’t comparable […]
Philosopher and author Alex Epstein details how The Washington Post tried to destroy his career over a book he wrote on fossil fuels.
On the latest Realignment Podcast, Saagar and Marshall Kosloff debate and discuss the future of NATO and geopolitics as the world has shifted due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Calling arms to Saudi Arabia “defensive weapons” is like calling starvation “low calorie food”
Briahna Joy Gray, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to Joe Rogan’s stance on members of Congress profiting on equities from a position of regulatory power.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Georgia based journalist Greg Bluestein to better understand the 2022 election forecast in GA and the impact Trump will have in the midterms and beyond
“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you […]
Katie Halper criticizes Bill Maher and Joe Rogan for their criticism of Disney’s ‘wokeness.’
Krystal and Kyle Kulinski of Krystal Kyle & Friends talk to progressive leader and congressional candidate Nina Turner about her campaign this time around as her Democratic primary approaches
By Marisa Lagos KQED With major national and statewide increases in murders since the start of the pandemic, crime is shaping up to be a big political football in 2022. In California, it’s already dominating debate in the race for attorney general, and has largely fueled the recall […]
“They’re lizard people!” So @FlorenceGaub (an EU drone) on German TV explained that Russians simply don’t value human life the same way we do in the West.
By Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic What would it have been like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction? In the Book of Genesis, we are told that the descendants of Noah built a great city in the land of Shinar. They built a tower “with […]
By Peter Weber, The Week Police interrogations and dramatic confessions are “a staple of countless TV shows, including ones you might not expect,” John Oliver said on Sunday night’s Last Week Tonight. “But it’s not just audiences who find them compelling — juries do, too. Confessions are viewed […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss gun violence and rising crime in light of multiple mass shootings over the weekend. Ryan Grim explains the growing influence of Big Crypto in politics and campaigning. Robby Soave describes the latest developments in Elon Musk’s attempted purchase of Twitter. Kim Iversen […]
Krystal and Saagar cover Biden’s escalating rhetoric towards Putin, Ukraine war updates, Elon vs Twitter board, Elon vs Saudis, media’s free speech meltdown, Biden’s midterm landscape, bipartisan movement on stock ban, CNN+ numbers, Christian Smalls on Tucker, history of online speech, and Jordan Chariton reporting on Amazon worker […]
The coming American Fascism was something often discussed on the Left in the late 2010’s around the Trump Movement, how well does the Left in North America truly know the history? Steven Jones joins Ewoks Unhinged to discuss the origins of Fascism, as we urge contemporary Socialists to […]
Tankies out-alt-righting the alt-right.
The Signal How is the war in Ukraine changing globalization? Adam Tooze on the new dynamics of world trade. Toni G “The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put an end to the globalization we have experienced over the last three decades,” Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock—the world’s largest […]
The Signal What is Russia losing in Ukraine? Chris Miller on the unplanned consequences of a brutal war of choice. Pixabay “The battle for Donbas will remind you of the Second World War,” Ukraine’s foreign minister told NATO earlier this month. Now Ukrainian and Russian forces are gearing up […]
By Caitlin Johnstone The country with the worst elections in the western world, whose government intervenes in foreign elections more than any other government on earth, is waging a dangerous proxy war to save democracy in Ukraine, a nation which is not a democracy by any reasonable definition. […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is a growing conspiracy against your children in this country and it’s being waged by Queer genderbending perverts like me. We have successfully infiltrated your schools and your doctor’s offices and we are using them to peddle […]
I’ve managed to piss people off on Twitter with this tweet. Folks don’t like having their illusions challenged. Although there are subfactions of these gangs that have colors of their own.
Renowned dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky joins The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill for a wide-ranging discussion on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, holding the powerful accountable, the role of media and propaganda in war, and what Chomsky believes is necessary to end the bloodshed in Ukraine. 6:00 Factors encouraging Russian […]
Noam Chomsky: “We’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history” US professor, Noam Chomsky now 93, joins George Eaton to discuss the Ukraine Russia War, the climate catastrophe, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, Brexit, and much more. “It’s monstrous for Ukraine,” he said. In common with many Jews, […]
My views are basically the same as Hoppe’s although I am a little more “left-wing” in the sense of being much less sympathetic to business corporations whom I regard as the economic arms of the state, and a little more “right-wing” in the sense of rejecting Lockean universalism […]
By Michael Lind, Tablet How the foundation-NGO complex quashed innovative thinking and open debate, first on the American right and now on the center-left. I have never liked the term “public intellectual,” but like its 19th-century predecessor, “publicist,” it describes a social type that plays a useful role […]
By Victor Davis Hanson Independent Institute In pursuit of its utopian omelet, the Left cares little about the millions of middle-class Americans it must break to make it. The last 14 months have offered one of the rare occasions in recent American history when the hard Left has operated all […]
By Timothy Aeppel Reuters ELKHART, Ind., April 7 (Reuters) – What happens when Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) plops over 1,000 new jobs in one of the hottest blue-collar job markets in the country? The RV Capital of the World is about to find out. Like many other manufacturing hubs […]
The Herland Report Herland Report: The American Prison Industrial Complex: There’s no two ways about it: The United States of America and its 50 state governments love putting people in prison. The U.S. has both the highest number of prisoners and the highest per capita incarceration rate in the […]
By Paul Blest, Vice “If a union is certified, benefits and wages will essentially be frozen while the parties negotiate the contract,” the letter stated. Workers at a Starbucks that’s trying to unionize received a letter from store management in March telling them that “benefits and wages will […]
By Neema Parvini, Imperium Press The 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump unleashed a wave of populism not seen in America since the Nixon era, which carried him into the presidency. Seen widely as a vindication of the people over elites, his failure to bring about any meaningful […]
JANIE HAR, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — California’s first-in-the-nation reparations task force meets in person Wednesday, the first time members have gathered face-to-face since their inaugural meeting nearly a year ago and mere weeks after the group voted to limit restitution to descendants of enslaved Black people. The […]
By Batya Ungar-Sargon As national support for unions approaches record levels, interviews reveal: a rarefied form of progressive leadership threatens to dampen their appeal among workers. NOTE FROM GLENN GREENWALD: As is true with all of the Outside Voices freelance articles that we publish here, we edit and […]
By Joshua Bote San Francisco Gate A major San Francisco Chronicle report has raised new concerns over California Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s mental fitness as she enters her fourth decade in office (SFGATE and the San Francisco Chronicle are both owned by Hearst but operate independently of one another). […]
By Ariel Zilber New York Post Elon Musk has launched a $41 billion bid to buy Twitter, saying the proposed deal is part of his plan to bring “free speech around the globe.” Musk’s offer price of $54.20 per share, which comes just days after he rejected a […]
The Lever’s Andrew Perez reports that corporate news networks are leaning on hawkish ex-military officials— without disclosing their current defense industry ties.
Will Jawando and Melik Abdul discuss the expiration of the child tax credit.
John Iadarola and Rachel Bovard react to shocking new data about teen mental health.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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