Trump Explains Why He Didn’t Pardon Snowden & Assange
He wanted to “drain the swamp,” but didn’t have the balls to pardon the two men most responsible for hurting said swamp. Dude is a fraud. Always has been, always will be.
He wanted to “drain the swamp,” but didn’t have the balls to pardon the two men most responsible for hurting said swamp. Dude is a fraud. Always has been, always will be.
Never underestimate Joe’s ability to [Brandon] things up! – Barack Obama
Take a look back at some of the top highlights from Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from 2021, her first full calendar year in Washington D.C.
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel was wildly successful at maintaining a German–and European–status quo nearly two decades. While her tenure will almost assuredly be remembered as the Golden Age of a unified, post-war Germany, the deeper structural issues Merkel failed to address risk undermining the stability and success […]
By Jasmine Garsd and Vanessa Romo, National Public Radio British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty on Wednesday of facilitating the abuse of underage girls at the hands of wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. A federal jury deliberated for five full days before finding Maxwell guilty on five of […]
The LAPD released video of the fatal police shooting inside a Burlington clothing store last week that left a suspect and a 14-year-old girl dead.
By Aruna Viswanatha, Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—The U.S. criminal investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is entering a more contentious phase as it nears the one-year mark, with initial trials set to test the government’s strategy of using provisions first laid out in a 2002 financial-industry law […]
Kim Iversen makes the case that vaccine mandates are arbitrary and un-American.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the Colorado truck driver currently facing a 110-year prison sentence.
Briahna Joy Gray details the string of political mishaps than have sunk President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s approval numbers.
Team Rising discuss reporting that the CEO of Delta asked the CDC to shorten its COVID-19 recommended quarantine time before the official policy change.
Krystal and Saagar respond to Ohio GOP Senate candidate Josh Mandel’s inability to admit that Trump lost the 2020 election in a recent interview
Ryan Grim details the relationship between inflation and corporate profits.
Robby Soave breaks down his experience with Facebook’s fact-checking team.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to the death of former Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid.
Anarchist News Topic of the week – As 2021 comes to a close, let’s take a look back at the ongoing social upheavals worldwide, inspiring anarchist actions, and the multimedia that have kept you up all night. 2021, a year in review and the year ahead. What have […]
I gave a talk a few years ago where I explored this question a bit. You can take any idea anyone ever had and find someone somewhere who put an “anarcho-” in front of it. As readers probably know, I call a lot of the left-anarchists things like […]
By David K. Li NBC News A 14-year-old girl needlessly died as “collateral damage” in a police shooting last week and drew her last breath in the arms of her grieving mother, the family and their lawyers said Tuesday. Heartbroken loved ones of Valentina Orellana-Peralta, who was killed […]
Of course, all this political fighting does nothing to hurt the people in charge, only the poor, always the poor. “But why didn’t the Afghan government magically stabilize the country after 20 years of being pimped out to the military industrial complex?” The leaders of most major countries […]
Tom Woods Show Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., joins us to discuss his new book The Real Anthony Fauci, which paints rather an unflattering portrait of the face of the American COVID response. READ MORE
Tom Woods Show In a recent episode of the Mises Institute’s Human Action Podcast, hosted by Jeff Deist, we discussed the Old Right, the loose collection of writers and thinkers who opposed domestic and foreign interventionism. Their names have almost been forgotten, and Jeff and I want to […]
Tom Woods Show Mark Crispin Miller, who teaches (among other things) a course on propaganda for New York University, discusses his run-in with the administration, as well as how the present case of propaganda compares with previous examples. LISTEN HERE
By Sean Gabb I would be most reluctant to cross swords with Ludwig von Mises on economics. I have less regard for his history. We can reject the Polanyi/Finley claim that market behaviour is a modern and transitory development, and that ancient economies were so fundamentally different that […]
By Peter Maass. The Intercept Wartime savagery requires that its perpetrators are told that their actions are acceptable — maybe heroic — and must not cease. My education in wartime savagery started in Bosnia in the 1990s. Reporting on the war, I visited death camps, saw civilians get shot and beaten, interviewed […]
By Jon Schwarz Intercept At Christmas we traditionally reflect upon our blessings and forgive those who have trespassed against us. Let’s not this year. At this time of year we traditionally reflect upon our blessings and forgive those who have trespassed against us. But we’ve been trying that […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave ponder what a 2024 presidential campaign matchup between Michelle Obama and Donald Trump would look like.
Geoff Herbert, Syracuse.com An Upstate New York manufacturer’s top executive has resigned after being accused of forcing his employees to visit strip clubs and brothels, according to a new report. Servotronics Inc., located in Elma, N.Y., announced Monday that Kenneth D. Trbovich has resigned as president and CEO and been removed as […]
By Carla Delgado Discover The MTBI type indicator is one of the most popular personality tests around the world. But its original design and the results it produces lack scientific support. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, famously known as the Myers-Briggs personality test, or MBTI, is one of the […]
Kim Iversen shares the latest developments from Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial.
It’s all Russia… These pathetic souls need to get off Twitter
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman breaks down a new Department of Justice memo concerning pandemic prison releases.
Krystal and Saagar cover the secret unit with the Customs and Border Protection that has been spying on Americans without warrants
Team Rising discusses the testing shortage, and Joe Biden’s recent comments about the federal and state COVID-19 response plans.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by foreign policy expert and professor Dr. Trita Parsi to discuss the renewed tensions between America, Iran, and Israel over potentially re-entering the Iran nuclear deal
Robby Soave reacts to 1619 Project architect, Nikole Hannah-Jones’s, recent comments about parent choice in schools.
Krystal and Saagar cover the war crimes in Syria hidden by the Pentagon after civilian deaths through drone strikes were covered up
Ryan Grim details new results from a survey on public reception to transgender activism.
Krystal and Saagar look at how the Biden administration has tried to make the mainstream media’s coverage of them even better through pressure and meetings behind the scenes
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the CDC’s shortening of Covid-19 isolation guidelines.
By Molly Young, New York Times Two distinguished academics walk into a restaurant in Manhattan. It is their first meeting — their first date, in fact — and the year is 2015. The man wears a down jacket against the icy winter evening. The woman has a shock […]
Free Thought Project (MPN) — The High Court in London has upheld the U.S. government’s appeal to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a key step towards his rendition to the United States. The Australian publisher faces up to 175 years in prison once he sets foot on American […]
Krystal and Saagar talk about the Biden administration’s meetings with reporters, Pentagon covering up war crimes, re-entry into the Iran nuclear deal, Customs & Border Protection spying on people, and more! Krystal and Saagar talk about the Biden administration’s meetings with reporters, Pentagon covering up war crimes, re-entry […]
By Matt Zapotosky Washington Post Theodore Kaczynski — who came to be known as the “Unabomber” for killing three people and injuring many more in a series of mail bombings over 17 years — has been transferred to a federal prison medical facility known for treating inmates with […]
From 2017. The rise of the neo-know-nothings is in part a pushback against the rise of the alliance between digital capitalism, the traditional financial elites, and the professional-managerial class, with totalitarian humanism its ideological superstructure, along with the parallel cultural and demographic decline of traditionally hegemonic WASP culture, […]
From 2018. Today, the USA is basically the European Union of North America, a currency union and trade zone presided over by transnational elites who identify with their class and other international elites more than with “America” either as an ideal or entity. Meanwhile, the USA is moving […]
US political culture, particularly elite culture, has experienced a sharp leftward lurch in recent years. Hardcore wokesters are actually a very small minority compared to the general public, but they tend to be concentrated in sectors where they have a platform and influence that is greatly disproportional to […]
Depending on how I answer some of these questions, I test out as either “Outsider Left” or “Ambivalent Right.” Pew Research Center Are you a Faith and Flag Conservative? Progressive Left? Or somewhere in between? Take our quiz to find out which one of our nine political typology […]
By Peter Zeihan All anyone can talk about in Europe these days is Russia. Russia is constricting natural gas flows to Europe in order to drive energy prices higher and extract geopolitical concessions. Russia is using irregular state tools — think cyber — to manipulate European politics and […]
By Benjamin Pauli This article highlights the ways in which anarcho-pacifists in the years during and after World War II reconceptualized anarchist tactics like “propaganda of the deed” and “direct action” in a manner that reconciled them with principles of nonviolence. In order to contextualize this extraordinary shift […]
By Peter Weber, The Week Conservative millennial commentator Candace Owens spent Christmas weekend arguing on Twitter with less-conservative millennial commentator Meghan McCain over an interview Owens conducted with former President Donald Trump last week. In the interview, Trump stood up for the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines after Owens […]
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