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Nexus X HumectressMaybe he’s doing a reenactment of the crazed cadet that he played in “Taps.” The Sean Penn-Sean Hannity axis. How’s that for a “Red-Brown Alliance”? Ryan Grim and Robby Soave debate nuclear deterrence.
Former Obama administration official David Axelrod recently discovered, to his chagrin, that his health insurance provider decided to stop covering a prescription medication that the “Axe Files” host takes for a chronic condition, and now he’s on the hook for $639 a month. Axelrod calls in to complain […]
Chris Smalls is really killing it.
Kim Iversen breaks down what an ESG score is.
In January medical ethics professor Aaron Kheriaty was fired by the University of California-Irvine for violating the mandate that all university employees be vaccinated against COVID-19. Kheriaty’s argument that since he’d already contracted COVID so his so-called “natural immunity” should serve just as well as the vaccine, if […]
War is a double win for them: it gets ratings and makes their advertisers very rich. I guess they hadn’t considered the dying part.
Journalist and former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori
For centuries the left in the United States has stood against authoritarianism and government repression, and for civil liberties and the cause of the working class. Yet with the advent of COVID and the resulting pandemic, many on the left have abandoned all of those values, acquiescing to […]
The funniest thing is that Connor Lamb has received all sorts of endorsements and he still is losing to Fetterman.
Max Alvarez and Pamela Denise Long discuss the future of the American economy and debate how government should address rising prices and record corporate profits.
We need 1000 more Chris Smalls out there organizing from the inside out. Nobody, including politicians will be able to force unionization for people. This needs to happen exactly how this thing happened. People… workers… from the front line need to step up and put pressure on these […]
Robby Soave criticizes Washington D.C.’s school mask policy as illogical.
Keep Joe on life support, folks! Krystal and Saagar bring Kyle Kulinski’s commentary on Kamala Harris’s long-winded, lack on an answer on a softball question about whether the US supports regime change in Russia to get rid of Putin
It really sounds like they were trying to ban specific words and THEN also banned the words a person would use in describing their frustration at those words being banned.
Briahna Joy Gray reacts to the Biden administration’s extension of the federal student loan repayment pause.
Krystal and Saagar offer their views on the reported top contender to replace Rachel Maddow as MSNBC’s primetime host and face of the network
“Because of our courageous Democratic leadership, we managed to pass a Republican corporate giveaway healthcare bill.” What a wonderful thing.
Ryan Grim describes how an ‘all-or-nothing’ dogma is flawed in treating addiction.
Marshall Kosloff talks to technology journalist Alex Kantrowitz about Elon Musk’s large purchase of Twitter stock and whether it could lead to the platform fixing its problems ahead of the 2024 election
Briahna Joy Gray reacts to the Biden administration’s extension of the federal student loan repayment pause. Ryan Grim describes how an ‘all-or-nothing’ dogma is flawed in treating addiction. Watch Ryan’s radar on how psilocybin can successfully help treat substance abuse disorders. Robby Soave criticizes Washington D.C.’s school mask […]
Caroline Mimbs Nyce Senior associate editor Roe v. Wade may not stand for much longer. Activists are already preparing for what comes next, Jessica Bruder reports in our new cover story In June, the Supreme Court of the United States is expected to issue a ruling that could […]
By Damon Linker, The Week In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s surprise defeat of Hillary Clinton in 2016, many on the center-left insisted the problem was our institutions: the illegitimate Electoral College, the dangerously anti-democratic Senate, our fundamentally unfair district maps and voting procedures. Many of these objections are […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week Democrats are going to have a tough time in this year’s midterm elections, but things will probably go worse for them if they try to reframe reality out of existence. Take the crime issue. We know that murder rates rose dramatically in 2020, […]
By Jason Fields, The Week The scenes in the Kyiv suburbs are devastating: masses of bodies piled in shallow graves; people found tortured and killed — their “crime” unclear — and reports of widespread rape. Russian President Vladimir Putin “is brutal, and what’s happening in Bucha is outrageous and everyone’s […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week The European Commission has proposed a ban on Russian coal in a new round of sanctions punishing Moscow for its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, CNBC reported Tuesday. The proposal arrives after reports of mass killings in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha and war crimes […]
By Alexa Gervasi The Week In the United States, government officials cannot inflict pain to compel you to speak — unless you live in Texas, Louisiana, or Mississippi. A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that police officers do not violate the Constitution when they […]
By Matt Taibbi Is sex “our era’s communist threat”? Author Laura Kipnis on speech, Title IX, and the degradation of intimacy in the pandemic era. Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus, 2017 Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis, 2022 by Laura Kipnis On March 18th, […]
Julia Manchester and Rachel Bovard discuss Elon Musk’s purchase of 9.2% stake in Twitter and polling users about adding an edit button feature.
Satellite images add to evidence that Russians slaughtered Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, according to a new investigation by the New York Times. Robby Soave and Batya Ungar-Sargon discuss.
“Trust” and “government” used together is an oxymoron. Totalitarian governments will always blame their peasants.
Political reporter for The Hill, Julia Manchester, breaks down why moderate Democrats are buckling down on immigration as they face Republican midterm challengers.
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Political reporter for The Hill, Julia Manchester, describes how Republicans plan to leverage the issue of transgender athletes during midterms.
Whoever replaces Biden and Trump as the leader of their respective parties is going to be worse than they are. Fox News host reacts to the president’s blunders on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’
Newly elected New York City Mayor Eric Adams is a former cop, and so it should come as little surprise that he’s making an increased police presence a part of his plan for reducing crime in the city. Controversially, he’s decided to bring back the controversial “broken windows” […]
Political reporter for The Hill, Julia Manchester, breaks down why moderate Democrats are buckling down on immigration as they face Republican midterm challengers.
Krystal and Saagar offer their perspective on the comments made by Ukraine president Zelensky about the neo-nazi Azov battalion in the Ukrainian army after being pressed about it by Fox News
For Day 23 of The Realignment’s Daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Rupert Russell, author of Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World. They discussed how observing global conflicts and events through the lens of commodity markets, how Chinese coal markets may have empowered Putin […]
President Biden reportedly decried Fox News owner and media magnate Rupert Murdoch as the “most dangerous man in the world,” according to new reporting in a forthcoming book by a team of New York Times reporters.
Saagar gives his view of the decision by eccentric billionaire Elon Musk to purchase a large amount of Twitter stock after he has publicly criticized the company for its lack of free speech
For Day 22 of The Realignment’s Daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Dr. Seth G. Jones, author of Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare and Senior VP and Director of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. […]
Kim Iversen makes the case for prioritizing peace talks to end the war in Ukraine.
Krystal and Saagar comment on a portion of a segment aired on CNBC where the hosts of the program asked Amazon Labor Union leader Christian Smalls about his relationship with company leadership going forward
For Day 22 of The Realignment’s Daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Dr. Aparna Pande, author of From Chanakya to Modi: The Evolution of India’s Foreign Policy and Making India Great: The Promise of a Reluctant Global Power. They discussed India’s reaction to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, India’s […]
Ryan Grim reviews the keywords Amazon will block workers from using in its company chat software.
Krystal breaks down the list of terms Amazon has banned workers from saying in their official group chat as the company escalates its aggressive union busting tactics and smears
The Alt-Right has pretty much self-destructed at this point.
Investigative journalist Sean Kevin Campbell details his reporting on the $6M Southern California home purchased by the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.
Krystal and Saagar respond to the claims made by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz about the nationwide unionization efforts at the company’s stores as union organizers get fired in retaliation
Dems can’t run on telling us that “our vote is the difference between fascism and democracy” like they did in 2020. I think many have realized that our system runs on the mantra of “same shit, different leader.”
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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