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Nexus X HumectressThis week’s guest, Henry Williams, gives us a look into how he and the Gravel Institute team have built a major digital platform to spread leftist ideas and debunk reactionary claims. As a Columbia undergrad, Henry helped to launch and run the campaign of Alaskan Senator Mike Gravel, […]
By Joseph M. Hanneman, Epoch Times Jeremy Brown says his refusal led to 2021 arrest for being at U.S. Capitol on day of violence. A retired U.S. Army Green Beret arrested for being at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, says the FBI tried to recruit him […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Seems like almost every day now the mass media are blaring about the need for speech on the internet to be controlled or restricted in some way. Today they’re running stories about Joe Rogan and Covid misinformation; tomorrow it will be something else. The reasons […]
By Cecelia Nowell, The Nation How racism, negligence, and a politically connected medical provider turned homelessness into a capital crime. n April 16, 2020, Officer Preston Panana walked up to Joleen Nez at the corner of Texas Street and Zuni Avenue in Albuquerque. Nez was living in a […]
By Jonathan Blanks, The Week The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) this week announced it would create a new internal unit to focus on domestic terrorism. Citing ethnically and politically motivated killings in El Paso, Pittsburgh, Charleston, and two attacks against Congress — Jan. 6 last year and […]
By Damon Linker, The Week Russia has amassed significant forces along the border of Ukraine. Talks between Russia and NATO appear to have broken down. Members of Washington’s foreign policy establishment are beginning to suggest the need to respond to any Russian military moves against Ukraine with a […]
Team Rising discusses the ties between ideological polarization and political engagement.
Amelia Pang details her new book, “Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods.”
Montana Congressional candidate Tom Winter describes how he plans to fight for working class, rural Montanians.
Team Rising discusses whether Democrats’ focus on Covid is a faulty strategy for the 2022 midterms.
The Daily Poster’s Andrew Perez expands on his reporting about the dark money contributions to Pete Buttigieg’s political advocacy group.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky detail the two former LAPD officers who want their jobs back after being fired for playing Pokemon Go while on duty in 2017.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss Pfizer’s proposed solution to the Omicron variant.
By AntiBoomerEquation Borders are Not Property, Authority is Not Indivisible. The main reason I dislike nationalism: territorialism. The process of territorialization of political demesne has been a recipe for totalitarian sovereign states. Polities do not consist of rocks and streams, they consist of persons. There is no such […]
By Andrew Sullivan It’s about a cultural revolution and the abolition of biological sex. An unusual thing happened in the conversation about transgender identity in America this week. The New York Times conceded that there is, indeed, a debate among medical professionals, transgender people, gays and lesbians and […]
By Michael Shellenberger Don’t believe the hype: the future is bright. The success of Environmental Progress in winning hearts and changing minds proves it. Now watch what happens next. Not that long ago ago it appeared that most of the trends relating to the issues that Environmental Progress […]
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Another set of bombshell inflation reports rattled markets this week. On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released data showing consumer prices continue to rise at the fastest rate since 1982. The all-items index has risen 7% for the past 12 months […]
Krystal and Saagar cover the ruling by SCOTUS that struck down Biden’s federal vaccine mandate enforced through OSHA as his Presidency continues to worsen
Is it time for a 3rd party challenger in 2024? Last week, Politico reported that several major progressive voices are confident that there will be a left challenger to Joe Biden. Jeff Weaver, Bernie’s 2016 campaign manager, said it’s a given, and names like Nina Turner and Marianne […]
By Ken Silva Epoch Times The attorney for Capitol Hill protest participant Ray Epps, former FBI agent John Blischak, told The Epoch Times on Jan. 12 that his client has been interviewed by federal law enforcers and “unequivocally, he is not an FBI informant.” Speculation about Epps has […]
Krystal and Saagar break down the tactics being used by the FBI and supportive Democrats in Congress to cover up the role intelligence agencies played in fomenting the January 6th Capitol riot
Ryan Grim and Kim Iversen discuss the rising cost of consumer goods and the debt crisis currently facing some American families.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by author & activist Marianne Willamson to discuss the state of the Democratic Party, a possible 2024 campaign, and her outlook on how to heal American politics
Saagar details Elon Musks’s most recent capitulation to the Chinese Communist Party and how it contrasts with his public disdain for prominent lawmakers in American politics
Ryan Grim and Kim Iversen react to the latest development in Prince Andrew’s U.S. legal battle.
Krystal and Saagar look through the data on stock trading by members of Congress in 2021 that shows how many of them over performed the stock market due to inside information
Journalist Judd Legum details his reporting on Red Lobster employees who are forced to work sick.
Krystal and Saagar offer their perspective on the opinion columns in major media outlets calling for Hillary Clinton to run in 2024 and for Liz Cheney to be a VP contender for Democrats
The ruling class is really showing its hand on this one. Team Rising reacts to a possible Biden-Cheney 2024 presidential ticket.
Krystal takes an in depth look at policy decisions by the federal reserve that could generate another major recession for suffering Americans and those winning in the stock market right now
Ryan Grim and Kim Iversen debate whether President Biden can recover his sinking approval numbers before the 2024 campaign season.
Krystal and Saagar react to the comments made by former President Trump about politicians who are too cowardly to celebrate taking the covid booster shot in public
Ryan Grim breaks down controversy surrounding March Congressional testimony from the former U.S. ambassador to Haiti.
Krystal and Saagar review the inflation numbers for 2021 on a range of vital household items and how Senator Elizabeth Warren pressed Fed Chair Jerome Powell on what has caused inflation
By Noah Millan, The Week It may not always feel like it, but we live in an age of miracles. The most recent: the first successful transplant of a heart from a non-human mammal to a human being. This was not the first successful xenotransplantation of a working […]
By Ryan Cooper, The Week Last year saw the highest inflation in almost 40 years, with the Consumer Price Index up 7 percent. “Core” inflation, which leaves out food and energy costs, was a still-high 5.5 percent. The Federal Reserve is now expected to start hiking interest rates in […]
By Brigid Kennedy, The Week Former President Donald Trump doesn’t think very highly of politicians who refuse to admit they’ve received a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, it seems. During an interview with the far-right One America News Network that aired Tuesday, Trump described politicos who dodge […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week Here’s the problem with all the recent “vaxxed and done” discourse: While my pandemic may be over, ours isn’t. Like a lot of Americans, I’m vaxxed and boosted, and so is everybody in my household. My son goes to middle school every day and […]
By W. James Antle III, The Week Can calling people racist get them to support your agenda? President Biden will soon find out, at least where Democrats’ voting legislation is concerned. Continuing the pattern of his Jan. 6 speech in his address in Georgia on Tuesday, Biden presented his political opponents […]
By Samuel Goldman, The Week British politics are different. While American politicians tend to hold onto their jobs until — and sometimes even after — they face charges for actual crimes, British officials are routinely forced out or resign for comparably minor lapses of behavior or judgment. That’s why U.K. […]
By Ryan Cooper The Week Afghanistan is starving. The country’s economy has collapsed, a bitter winter has taken hold, and half the population doesn’t have enough to eat. Already many have died — and it could get much, much worse. UNICEF estimates 1 million children could perish over the […]
By Victor Davis Hanson, Independent Institute “Indeed, men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which alike can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day […]
By Alice Giordano, Epoch Times One of New Hampshire’s leading political conservatives is fighting to keep his children from the state’s child protection services agency after giving his 13-year-old son ivermectin. JR Hoell is the founder of ReOpen NH, an activist group that criticizes COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Hoell, […]
By Simon Springer, James D Sidaway, Richard J White, Nicholas J Crane The Anarchist Roots of Geography: Toward Spatial Emancipation advances several arguments. On the one hand, it wishes to recover and applaud the legacies of two anarchists who were also geographers—Kropotkin (1842– 1921) and Reclus (1830–1905)—and celebrate […]
By Matt Taibbi As yokel-bashing reaches impressive new heights, reports of yet another year of record profits and a widening wealth gap go unnoticed. Jimmy Kimmel Live, fast becoming Leonid Brezhnev’s never-realized dream of a Soviet Tonight Show, just put out a high-effort gag called “Anti-Vax Barbie.” It’s […]
By Audrey Williams June Chronicle of Higher Education New data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center provides a somber final tally of college enrollment during the fall of 2021: It dropped 2.7 percent from a year earlier, a decline of 476,100 students. Undergraduate enrollment, which was down at […]
Here it is. By MICHAEL BALSAMO, COLLEEN LONG and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Associated Press 1 of 5 FILE – In this Sunday, June 25, 2017 file photo, Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington. Rhodes has been arrested […]
The Signal Why are voters across Latin America rejecting right-wing authoritarian populists? Amy Erica Smith on economic inequality, cultural backlash, and a shifting anger with elites. Right-wing authoritarian populists have been building power and rolling back democracy around the world for more than a decade. From Donald Trump in […]
By John Reid Blackwell Richmond Times-Dispatch The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the job market seems likely to have long-lasting affects on the U.S. economy, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond said Thursday. “We have been living for decades in a world of excess workers, driven […]
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