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Nexus X HumectressBack in the 1980s and 1990s when the US religious right was more influential, I used to be a Richard Dawkins/Christopher Hitchens-like opponent of social conservatives. And I still maintain that a lot of conservatives would gladly maintain a cancel culture of their own when it comes to […]
By Caitlin Johnstone The western media are blaring headlines today about a “revelation” by the US government which does not actually reveal anything because it contains nothing but empty narrative fluff. “U.S. reveals Russian plot to use fake video as pretense for Ukraine invasion,” reads a headline from […]
From 2019. My guess is that laws pertaining to prostitution in the US will eventually splinter into three different directions: Some states and localities will have the conventional prohibition model. Others will have the so-called “Nordic model” and still others will have either full decriminalization or legalization. There […]
By Noah Millman The Week Ever since the rise of President Donald Trump, Americans have been warned that our democracy is under attack, even in danger of being extinguished. From the left, the center, and the shrinking precincts of the anti-Trump right, that warning has primarily been about […]
By Joel Mathis The Week The author and podcaster Roxane Gay has joined the (so far, small) exodus of artists who are choosing to leave Spotify rather than share a platform with Joe Rogan and his COVID misinformation. “It was a difficult decision — there are a lot […]
By W. James Antle III, The Week Some people in Washington are very upset that Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) doesn’t think the United States should want Ukraine in NATO. This includes the White House, where Press Secretary Jen Psaki dismissed the lawmaker’s concerns — that NATO membership would make […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week President Biden has announced the leader of ISIS has been killed during a U.S. raid in Syria. Biden said in a statement Thursday that U.S. military forces undertook a counterterrorism operation early Thursday, and “thanks to the skill and bravery of our armed forces, we […]
By Peter Weber The Week U.S. Special Operations forces conducted a large-scale counterterrorism raid on a two-story house in Syria’s northwest Idlib Province early Thursday, in pursuit of what one U.S. official told The New York Times was a “high value” target. The Pentagon gave only cursory details […]
By Jeva Lange, The Week In one of my characteristic moments of having no idea what day it was (a state I’ve lived in more or less constantly since March 2020), I got the inkling this week that the Opening Ceremony must be impending and did a requisite […]
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange The U.S. reached a $30 trillion milestone this week. Instead of signifying a great achievement, though, it serves as a dire warning for American workers, investors, and retirees. On Tuesday, the Treasury Department reported that total public debt outstanding surpassed $30,000,000,000,000. That’s […]
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic ABC has suspended the View co-host Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks after she said on Monday’s show that the Holocaust was “not about race,” and later that day repeated the idea on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, saying that “most of […]
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and LEAH WILLINGHAM, AP News JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — If you are Black or Hispanic in a conservative state that already limits access to abortions, you are far more likely than a white woman to have one. And if the U.S. Supreme Court allows […]
Former Democratic presidential candidate says attempts to censor Joe Rogan is ‘latest indicator about the real danger’ society is facing.
The commentary on this issue I have heard so far. David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young fame recently described his former bandmate and censorship fan Neil Young as “the most selfish person I know.” This assessment may help explain how the iconic ‘60s rock star could […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave make the case that the Biden administration’s public calls on Spotify to censor information is a violation of the First Amendment.
Kim Iversen criticizes the Bureau of Prisons’ nationwide prison lockdown.
Krystal and Saagar offer their perspective on the comments made by The View’s Whoopi Goldberg about the holocaust and how the show has responded
–Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene loses her mind during an interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, claiming that masks and vaccines don’t work and that not using Ivermectin to treat COVID is “murder”
On this week’s Bad Faith Brie tackled the latest Joe Rogan/Spotify controversy with an all-star panel: Taylor Lorenz, technology reporter for the New York Times; heterodox writer at Substack Freddie DeBoer; & Evan Greer — activist and musician with an album titled “Spotify is Surveillance.”
Katie Halper discusses the role of #MeToo in Jeff Zucker’s resignation from CNN.
Krystal takes a look at how billionaires and tech companies are exploiting people’s pain and misery to profit by selling the data to companies without people knowing
Who do you trust more about COVID? A legendary rock star or the world’s most popular podcaster? The biggest takeaway from the latest culture war battle is that you get to decide.
Big Brother: “I will increase widget production beyond 100.” (Widget production falls to 80). Media: “Big Brother has raised widget production to 80!”
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the US role in the ongoing financial and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
Krystal and Saagar respond to the news that a historic bridge in Holland will be taken down to allow Jeff Bezos’s superyacht to pass through without getting damaged
Fiscal conservative pan-secessionism? “Obviously we could have used the money, but at what cost?,” says Sheila Hemphill, an activist and lobbyist from Brady, Texas
I would love to hear Fox News and Forbes denounce Federal subsidies for private military contractors as price gouging but we all know that this is not going to happen.
Democratic congressional candidate Nina Turner updates the hosts on the state of her campaign for Congress.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by author Freddie Deboer and policy expert Oren Cass who go back and forth on the left & right cases against the college for all system that dominates American education
From school shutdowns to insane teachers union demands to frustrated parents, the pandemic has made radical education reform a reality.
Social-democratic pan-secessionism? If only we had a nationwide pandemic to make this apply to everyone.
Team Rising weighs in on Brian Flores’ lawsuit against the NFL for racial discrimination.
Krystal and Saagar break down the statistics showing how large corporations from Starbucks to oil companies are making record profits as inflation continue to hurt American consumers
Florida recently passed a landmark Parents’ Bill of Rights. But in the long run, parental rights laws and anti–critical race theory bills can’t end the curriculum wars and secure the rights of parents. Only school choice can.
I love that the right and left can come together over one thing: We’re all laughing at CNN dying.
Robby Soave details his reporting on a California teacher who moved to Florida over critical race theory curriculum in the classroom.
Krystal and Saagar deliver the news of CNN boss Jeff Zucker’s shock resignation due to an affair he was having with a CNN executive tied to the Cuomo family during the Cuomo brothers scandals
Time for School Choice.
We’ll see if these projects actually happen. These manufacturing revival projects always seem to die because the market has become dependent on near-zero cost labor from abroad.
Ryan Grim explains why Judge Leondra Kruger may side with the Supreme Court’s pro-business wing, should she be nominated and confirmed.
Krystal and Saagar cover the Biden administration’s decision to send thousands of troops to the Ukrainian border and label any opposition to this move as Russian propaganda
How access to school transportation drives inequality
Imagine being given 125 million dollars for being incompetent. That’s essentially what just happened.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Jeff Zucker’s shocking resignation as president of CNN.
Saagar delivers the data on America’s hidden obesity crisis as diabetes deaths skyrocket, child obesity becomes an epidemic, and the country as a whole becomes more unhealthy
By William P. Meyers iii Publishing And mistaking propaganda for history The current crisis in Ukraine forces thoughtful people to return to a basic question: what is fact and what is propaganda? I have seen and heard little news coverage that would provide Americans with an objective view […]
Macron calls Putin. UN Security Council aligns against Biden’s Ukraine war
Krystal and Saagar cover the placement of troops on Ukraine’s border, Jeff Zucker’s resignation as the boss of CNN, corporate profiteering off inflation, Jeff Bezos’s destructive superyacht, Whoopi Goldberg’s comments on the holocaust, billionaires selling suicide hotline data, America’s silent obesity crisis, and the left & right case […]
Joseph Weisberg, the creator of FX’s The Americans, former CIA officer, and author of Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War, joins The Realignment to discuss how the U.S. should approach a conflict in Ukraine, how and when a second cold war began, what […]
Four billion years ago, Venus, Earth and Mars each held the promise of supporting life, with oceans, supportive climates, and the chemical ingredients of biology. Over the eons since, Mars lost its atmosphere, turning ever colder, while Venus entered a death-spiral of ever-increasing heat. But, 50 km above […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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