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Nexus X HumectressBy Ilya Somin The Week Realistically, your ballot doesn’t matter. ‘Foot voting’ does. American democratic institutions are in crisis. One of the worst flaws of the status quo is the near-powerlessness of the individual voter over the policies which determine so much of daily life. Closely related is […]
Kim Iversen speculates about how Vice President Kamala Harris can boost her failing poll numbers.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the greenlighting of prior restraint in Project Veritas’ lawsuit against the New York Times.
Deputy opinion editor at Newsweek, Batya Ungar-Sargon, reacts to liberal outrage at the ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ comments made towards Joe and Jill Biden.
Team Rising discusses the re-extension of the student loan repayment freeze, and whether student loan debt will ever be cancelled.
Krystal and Saagar offer their views on the Masterclass being offered by failed Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that shows her crying while reading her planned 2016 victory speech
Ryan Grim imagines an alternate future in which Senator Joe Manchin was more like Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by American Prospect writer Lee Harris to dive into the future of financial regulation given the presence of new giants on Wall Street
Krystal and Saagar review the in depth investigation of how the CIA covered up crimes including child sex by employees within the agency to ensure that its secrets stayed hidden
Robby Soave makes the case that trying to stop the spread of the Omicron variant is an impossible and pointless endeavor.
Krystal and Saagar look at the polling data among young Americans of all political views showing how they feel about America and it is overwhelmingly negative
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the chaotic state of mass coronavirus testing, and consider what role the Biden administration may have had in hindering rollout.
Interview by KK Ottesen, Washington Post Student and climate activist Greta Thunberg, 18, burst improbably onto the world stage in late 2018 when what began as a one-person school strike outside the Swedish parliament ended up galvanizing a global climate movement to demand immediate action to prevent environmental […]
Krystal and Saagar talk about despondent young people, CIA covering up crimes, the future of financial regulation, Hillary Clinton’s tears, and more! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Timestamps: Young People: 0:00 – 8:47 CIA: 8:48 – 14:22 Finance: 14:23 – 22:25 Hillary: 22:26 – 29:39
Like their parents, the American Millennial cohort is defined by their size. Making up a larger share of the US population than either the preceding (and dare I say, cooler?) Gen X and younger Gen Z, they are having their own outsized impact on American society. Millennials and […]
By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — If you’re daydreaming of future travels while stuck at home during the pandemic, why fantasize about the beaches of Bali or the canals of Venice when vacationing in space could be in your future? Back in 2019, Californian company the Gateway Foundation […]
Proto-Protestant https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2021/12/09/ocasio-cortez-slams-republicans-over-gun-toting-christmas-photos/ What a sad moment. Ocasio-Cortez the much vilified Democratic representative from New York and member of the hated ‘Squad’ has spoken truth – and a truth that puts Evangelicals to shame. The Right has made too much of Ocasio-Cortez. Some commentators suggest that ‘The Squad’ in […]
By Richard Cleminson Current historiography has considered eugenics to be an emanation from state structures or a movement which sought to appeal to the state in order to implement eugenic reform. This paper examines the limitations of that view and argues that it is necessary to expand our […]
This week, we’re joined on KK&F by Maximillian Alvarez, host of Working People podcast and editor-in-chief at The Real News. In the wake of recent news about the tragic, needless deaths of six workers at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer this year, Krystal sat down with Max for […]
By Jeva Lange The Week The Trump Grill, located inside Trump Tower in New York City, refused to allow a group of vaccine mandate protesters to eat at the restaurant on Thursday after they failed to provide proof of vaccination. In response, the group slammed former President Donald […]
By Jeva Lange, The Week As Santa makes his way back to the North Pole in the early hours of Saturday morning, another extraordinary flight will be about to begin. The James Webb Space Telescope — “the most powerful observatory ever sent into space,” and having the humble […]
By Peter Weber, The Week From 2007 to 2018, Joseph Moore was an undercover informant for the FBI embedded in Florida chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, working to identify and expose law enforcement officials who moonlighted as Klansmen. After he testified against three state prison guards who […]
By Jeva Lange The Week A 14-year-old girl was reportedly shot and killed by a Los Angeles police officer who opened fire on a suspect in a Burlington clothing store in North Hollywood on Thursday, The Associated Press reports. The police were responding to a report of a […]
By Kwame Anthony Appiah New York Review of Books Reviewed: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 692 pp., $35.00 In The Dawn of Everything David Graeber and David Wengrow search for historical examples of nonhierarchical […]
By David Wengrow, reply by Kwame Anthony Appiah New York Review of Books In response to: Digging for Utopia from the December 16, 2021 issue To the Editors: In The Dawn of Everything David Graeber and I present a new history of humanity, based on the latest findings […]
The Week Staff The U.S. cuts its reliance on a rival’s technology. The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: New restrictions on a key dronemaker show how serious the U.S. is about cutting its reliance on Chinese technology, said Bruce Einhorn […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Desmond Tutu — the South African civil rights campaigner, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, and retired Anglican archbishop — died Sunday in Cape Town at the age of 90, Reuters reports. No cause of death was provided, but according to The New York Times, […]
By Grayson Quay The Week On Christmas night, 1991, Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev resigned and relinquished his powers, including the nuclear codes, to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. The flag of the USSR that flew over the Kremlin was lowered, never to be raised again. The next day, the […]
Krystal and Saagar dive into the most recent reporting on how much the FBI was involved in the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer right before the 2020 election
Krystal and Saagar cover the hilarious and insightful comments made by comedian Bill Burr about mainstream media during a recent podcast appearance
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Daily Poster journalist David Sirota to talk about his new blockbuster Netflix film ‘Don’t Look Up’ featuring a loaded cast and a message about our future
Katie Halper reacts to a new decision from NY state’s ethics panel that would see former Governor Andrew Cuomo forfeit his pandemic book deal profits.
By Julius Ruiz This article examines the use of forced labour in Republican Spain during the civil war. Althoughmuch has recently been written on Francoist camps, very little research has been undertaken ontheir Republican counterparts. As a consequence the significance of Republican camps has not been recognised. Although some […]
Krystal and Saagar talk about the Don’t Look Up Netflix film, warmongering on Tucker Carlson’s show, Bill Burr roasting cable news, Fed involvement in Whitmer kidnapping plot, and more! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Warrior Met Fund: https://umwa.org/umwa2021strikefund/ Daily Poster: https://www.dailyposter.com/ Timestamps: Don’t Look Up: 0:00 – 11:47 Tucker: 11:48 – […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Let’s face it, dearest motherfuckers, this year sucked. From start to finish, 2021 was a hard year for hope. The Pandemic that never ends never ended. To the surprise of only the gullible, Joe Biden turned out to […]
This is a 2009 article from the late anarchist anthropologist David Graeber, who died last year, and who was probably as influential as any anarchist in the 21st century so far. I am posting this because the third section of this piece, the discussion of anarchism in the […]
The jury deliberating whether to find Kim Potter guilty or not guilty of the manslaughter of Black man Daunte Wright in April have reached an “outcome”, it has been announced. Ms Potter, 49, shot and killed Mr Wright during a traffic stop in Minnesota, and said she mistook […]
“The peasants were the proletariat”- Vaush the self described anarcho-syndicalist
By Catherine Garcia, The Week Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) told reporters on Tuesday his office has received a clemency application for Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, a truck driver who was sentenced last week to 110 years in prison for causing a deadly crash on Interstate 70. In April 2019, the […]
By Catherine Garcia The Week One of the oldest people facing charges related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, 81-year-old Army veteran Gary Wickersham, was sentenced on Tuesday to three years probation for illegally breaching the Capitol. Wickersham must also spend 90 days under home detention and pay […]
By W. James Antle III, The Week Democrats find themselves wishing for a happy New Year after 2021 sputtered to a disappointing conclusion with their sprawling climate and social welfare proposal not keeping up the legislative momentum by also reaching President Biden’s desk. But it’s not clear things will get […]
Progressives were frustrated with President JOE BIDEN even before Sen. JOE MANCHIN (D-W.V.) knifed the Build Back Better act on live television Sunday. Voting rights legislation appears to be going nowhere. Student loan collection is expected to re-start early next year. Some of the Trump administration’s border policies […]
By Stephanie H. Murray The Week 2021 was full of surprises: The Capitol riot was a bit of a shock; COVID-19 variants sprung up left and right; and, perhaps strangest of all, sperm was all over the papers. That’s because the pandemic caused a serious shortage in the market […]
Krystal and Saagar react to the comments made by former President Trump on vaccines during an interview with conservative media pundit Candace Owens
Krystal and Saagar review the results from a poll of Breaking Points fans on YouTube about their hopes for next year
Krystal and Saagar cover the shocking news that Amazon covered up worker deaths in their warehouses including two that took place in a single day
Saagar looks back on all of the predictions he made in 2021 to find his takes that aged the poorest and what he got right in the past year
Krystal and Saagar comment on the hostile response given by President Biden when he was pressed by a reporter on why the administration has not been quicker with sending out rapid tests
Krystal and Saagar analyze the investigative reporting that details how the FBI infiltrated BLM demonstrations in Portland during the violent and tumultuous Summer of 2020 in that city
Krystal and Saagar deliver the good news on the pandemic and the Omicron variant that should have you and your family ready to celebrate Christmas together
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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