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Nexus X HumectressBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — What students are learning about the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 may depend on where they live. In a Boston suburb in heavily Democratic Massachusetts, history teacher Justin Voldman said his students will spend the day […]
By Joseph M. Hanneman, Epoch Times A defendant being held in Virginia in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol is extremely ill and at risk of dying because the jail refuses to provide proper medical care and a special diet for his celiac […]
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Washington Post As he runs for the Senate, the ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author has gone from media darling to establishment pariah. Is his new, fiery, right-wing persona an act? Or is something more interesting going on? Let’s start with the beard. J.D. Vance didn’t used […]
By Dana Williams Tactics are the techniques and actions used by social movements that implement strategies for the purpose of achieving goals. For anarchist movements, tactics can assume a reactive, diagnostic, or destructive force for opposing hierarchy, repression, and inequality. Tactics can also assume a proactive, prognostic, or […]
Krystal and Saagar talk about the potential bipartisan effort to fight meatpacking consolidation, updates on Omicron statistics, unemployment for the unvaccinated, new details about Prince Andrew’s ties to Epstein, Dr. Robert Malone’s appearance on Joe Rogan, Elizabeth Holmes trial verdict, how the White House Correspondent’s Association rigs the […]
Katie and Aaron Maté review the Sunday morning shows that they watch so you don’t have to. If it’s Monday Morning, it’s #MondayMourning
By Daniel Larison, Antiwar.Com The Soviet Union ceased to exist 30 years ago, and with its disappearance the United States embraced a triumphalist interpretation of the end of the Cold War that has served to fuel its militarism for another generation. The loss of its major rival could […]
Anarchist News We all have contradictions in our practice and our ideas. Not just anarchists, obviously, but definitely anarchists, perhaps most foundationally (at least, I like to think so). What are the four main contradictions in your life with your anarchist ideas of how life should be (you […]
By Siddharth Gundapaneni Mises Institute On December 15, the Federal Reserve announced numerous quantitative tightening measures that have the intended goal of combating the rising inflation that has been bogging down the American economy. As of November 2021, the rate of inflation has reached 6.8 percent, the highest […]
By Noor Al-Sibai Futurism Imagine, if you will, that future humans manage to travel to other worlds and find… more humans. According to one University of Cambridge astrobiologist, that scenario may be more likely than you’d think. In a new interview with the BBC‘s Science Focus magazine, an evolutionary palaeobiologist at […]
The New York Attorney General has subpoenaed Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. as part of the money probe into the Trump Organization. Trump’s children are not expected to comply with the subpoenas. Former Acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal joins MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber to […]
–A chilling draft of a Trump letter calling for the “seizure” of election materials is obtained by the House Committee investigating the January 6 Trump riots
Neocons vs Trumpists in a heel vs. heel match. –Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who is on the House Committee investigating the January 6 Trump riots, tells ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that they have received firsthand
–Three retired military generals warn about a coup in 2024 that could involve the military itself
The Vanguard is bringing lively conversations to the left and platforming independent voices with ideas on the “vanguard” of modern leftist thought and politics.
By Joel Kotkin Demographic transitions present political opportunities, but do not protect politicians from their own folly. The shift in most Western countries to a more racially and ethnically diverse demographic has been widely seen by left-wingers as an opportunity to cement their ascendancy. Yet after early […]
Writer and attorney Mark Yzaguirre joins The Realignment to discuss our show’s original focus: cultural, economic, and political realignments are reshaping the right and left.
Zac & Gavin react to a surprising poll of the audience of “Breaking Points” hosted by Krystal Ball & Saagar Enjeti
By Larry Gambone, Porcupine Blog Just because you have some ideal or goal which is – or seems – completely at odds with the world as it is, does not mean you are an extremist. Extremism is an attitude, not just a set of ideas or concepts. You […]
By Larry Gambone, Porcupine Blog One of the few aspects which differentiate humans from other animals is our unending desire to know why things are the way they are. Where any knowledge, let alone scientific knowledge, is missing, we construct narratives to fill that void. These stories we […]
By JAKE JOHNSON Common Dreams “By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a right-wing dictatorship,” writes a longtime scholar of violent conflict. In a matter of years, the United States’ deeply flawed and increasingly fragile democratic system could collapse under the weight of a long-running […]
By Samantha Jones New Discourses I have a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies, but I’m not woke anymore. I write under a pseudonym because, if my colleagues were to find out about my criticisms of this field, I would be unable to find any employment in academia. That someone […]
By Tyler Stovall The Nation What is the relationship between democracy and authoritarianism? On January 6, 2021, hundreds of demonstrators invaded the US Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the election of Joseph Biden as president of the United States and install the man they regarded as the […]
By Olúfémi O. Táíwò The Nation Elite economists have been promoting a model of governance resembling nothing so much as a game of Monopoly. If you’re in the market for a banana republic, have I got a deal for you. Head on down to the digital offices of […]
By David E. Gumpert The Nation If 1920s Germany could punish Hitler for leading a coup attempt, why can’t America go after Trump? Pulling off a successful coup d’état in a dictatorship is a risky affair. It invariably involves the military, and failure usually results in long prison […]
By Joel Kotkin National Review Some horrified conservatives dismiss California as the progressive dystopia, bound for bankruptcy and, let’s hope, growing irrelevance. Progressives, for their part, hail the Golden State as the avatar of a better future, the role model for a new, more environmentally friendly and socially […]
By Caroline Downey National Review Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of health-technology company Theranos, has been found guilty of four charges of criminal fraud, for which she potentially faces a sentence of up to 20 years in jail. The jury returned the verdict after three months of testimony from […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week Nearly a year after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, there are two things most Americans agree on: That the insurrection was an attack on democracy, and that democracy itself remains incredibly fragile. Too bad we’re not acting like it. On […]
By Peter Weber, The Week The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has “interviewed more than 300 witnesses, collected tens of thousands of documents, and traveled around the country to talk to election officials who were pressured by Donald Trump,” The Associated Press reports. Now, the […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week It’s almost the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and Americans are still at odds over how to describe what happened that fateful winter day, according to a new poll from PBS NewsHour, NPR, and Marist. While 49 percent of those […]
By Alice Speri, The Intercept Huda Al-Sarari was forced into exile after her work documenting human rights abuses by U.S.-backed Emirati forces garnered global attention. Yemeni attorney Huda Al-Sarari had been representing women in domestic abuse and gender-based violence cases for years, when around 2015 she began fielding […]
By Dan Balz Scott Clement and Emily Guskin Washington Post One year after the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, Republicans and Democrats are deeply divided over what happened that day and the degree to which former president Donald Trump bears responsibility for the assault, amid more universal signs […]
Between 330 AD and 1453, Constantinople (modern Istanbul) was the capital of the Roman Empire, otherwise known as the Later Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire, the Mediaeval Roman Empire, or The Byzantine Empire. For most of this time, it was the largest and richest city in Christendom. […]
By Javier Alcalde Even in those moments most prone to belicist feelings, as were the years of the Great War, peace activism has been able to carry out their ideals with various initiatives. Within the centenary of the First World War, the special issue ‘Pacifists during World War […]
Daniel Francisco is a former executive director for Project Veritas and is now a city councilman in Englishtown NJ and is running for congress out of the 4th district Pete invited Daniel on to talk about various subjects including his gun rights activism, trying to red-pill the Right […]
By Uri Gordon This guide is pitched for A-level teachers looking to keep up with modern developments, and/or to provide material to more advanced students who may be able to go beyond the basics to grasp more difficult approaches to the study of anarchism, probe core concepts or […]
By Petr Svab, Epoch Times With the New Year’s Eve passing, 2021 is now the second year defined by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic and the global response to it. Compared to 2020, last year was not only deadlier, but also more complicated. Issues such as […]
By Devin Foley Intellectual Takeout Let’s be honest, we live in an honor-less age; lies and gossip aren’t just the tools of politicians and celebrities. In your own life, you can probably point to any number of people around you — even church people! — whose main trade seems […]
By Thomas Homer-Dixon, Special to The Globe and Mail The U.S. is becoming increasingly ungovernable, and some experts believe it could descend into civil war. What should Canada do then? Thomas Homer-Dixon is executive director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University. His latest book is Commanding […]
Jerome Blanchet Gravel, Westphalian Times The essayist and journalist Jérôme Blanchet-Gravel recently published his book “Un Québécois à Mexico” (Harmattan). For the occasion, Quebec Nouvelles columnist Simon Leduc interviewed the author. What prompted you to write a book about your experience in Mexico, and more specifically in the […]
Kim Iversen explains what “mass formation psychosis” is.
Krystal and Saagar review the results of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial and how the media has covered it up to this point with a particularly bad choice of analyst by BBC
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the controversy surrounding Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes and her vacation to Miami.
Krystal and Saagar examine the economic figures in the 2021 job market and how newly implemented raises in the minimum wage in states across America will benefit workers
St. Petersburg, Florida councilmember-elect Richie Floyd breaks down what it takes for progressives and democratic socialists to win in red and purple states.
Krystal makes the case for why the Left needs to start preparing for a primary of Joe Biden in 2024 even though he is the Democratic incumbent and the 2022 midterms are right around the corner
Saagar breaks down the sudden messaging shift from public health authorities such as Dr. Fauci and the CDC that exposes their past mistakes on covid guidelines
Team Rising discusses the permanent suspension of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account.
Krystal and Saagar look at the metrics surrounding inflation and corporate profit margins that how how approximately 60% of the surge in prices of goods is resulting from rampant price gauging
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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