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By David Brooks, Seattle Times Rabbi Jonathan Sacks once observed that being a minority in 19th-century Europe was like living in someone else’s country home. The aristocrat owned the house. Other people got to stay there but as guests. They did not get to set the rules, run […]
By Joshua Adams, The Nation Something happened to Black discourse on the way to the backlash—and that’s no joke. US politics has been deluged by heated debates surrounding cancel culture, “wokeness,” and critical race theory. What do these three topics have in common? Some would say that they […]
By Joel Kotkin If ignorance is bliss, the Western world should be ecstatic. Even as colleges churn out degrees and collect fees, and technology makes information instantly accessible, the basic level of literacy, as measured by such things as reading books and acquainting oneself with the past, is […]
By Joel Kotkin There is a hypocrisy at the heart of the West’s attitude to China: although we’re constantly warned about the threat from Beijing, our political and corporate elites seem intent on making this century a Chinese one. Unlike in the Thirties, this appeasement isn’t driven by […]
By Joel Kotkin America has only a limited feudal past, the plantation aristocracy of the antebellum South and the enormous class chasms of the Gilded Age being pretty much our only examples. Yet today—after decades of social mobility, a digital revolution that was supposed to empower individuals everywhere, […]
By Ryan Grim, The Intercept Lyndon B. Johnson, a giant of American politics, recognized a political opportunity and reoriented. Manchin would rather be the man riding the bomb to the ground. When Lyndon B. Johnson took over leadership of the Senate Democratic caucus in the early 1950s, anybody […]
By Ed Kilgore U.S. senator Ted Cruz of Texas isn’t currently subscribing to the strongly held belief among most Republicans that Donald Trump is going to be the 2024 Republican presidential nominee. Indeed, as he told the conservative news site the Truth Gazette this week, he’s bullish on […]
Daily Kos I’m having a real hard time understanding how a civil war between liberals and conservatives would actually play out in this country. Would we have to wear uniforms to mark ourselves as part of the vast progressive horde, or would the conspicuous lack of misspelled MAGA […]
BBC News “If I had the discretion, it would not be my sentence,” the judge said after Rogel Aguilera-Mederos was convicted. His lorry had ploughed into traffic on a mountain road in Colorado in April 2019, killing four people. Convicted on 27 counts, the 26-year-old was handed a […]
By Michael E. Ruane Washington Post In August 1944, an American soldier finishing up an Army survey was asked whether he had any further remarks. He did. “White supremacy must be maintained,” he wrote. “I’ll fight if necessary to prevent racial equality. I’ll never salute a negro officer […]
NBC Los Angeles Beverly Hills is adding more police and security officers to its streets amid a spike in crime that has residents on edge. Five new officers are joining the Beverly Hills Police Department on Monday, and the city will be deploying additional armed, private Covered-Six security […]
By Thomas Hogan, City Journal Radical prosecutors and woke politicians in American cities have been defunding, demoralizing, and neutralizing the police—and violent crime is rising. In response, citizens have started taking the law into their own hands. This can happen in the middle of a riot, as in […]
Tara Copp, Defense One First update since 2012 adds rules for social-media behavior. Service members could be punished for “liking” extremist content online under a new extension to the Pentagon’s anti-extremism policy that was prompted by the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol. The policy is the […]
Many of our viewers and clients have been telling us that their country has become unrecognizable and that’s why they need a Plan B to protect their freedom and wealth. In this video, Andrew shares an article from RealClearPolitics.com about how a key media figure called the USA […]
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By David Brooks, Seattle Times Rabbi Jonathan Sacks once observed that being a minority in 19th-century Europe was like living in someone else’s country home. The aristocrat owned the house. Other people got to stay there but as guests. They did not get to set the rules, run […]
By Thomas Fuller, Shaila Dewan and Kellen Browning New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — The mayor of San Francisco on Friday made a sharp break with the liberal conventions that have guided her city for decades, declaring a state of emergency in one of its most crime-infested neighborhoods. Mayor London Breed’s announcement […]
Welcome to another episode of conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Nicquel Terry Ellis. Nicquel is the senior writer for CNN’s Race and Equality team. Before that, she was a national correspondent for USA Today covering race inequality and activism. She has also spent six years working […]
Welcome to another episode of conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Michelle Telfer. Michelle is an Australian Paediatrician and Head of the Gender clinic at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. She’s the lead author of the Australian Standards of Care and Treatment Guidelines for trans children, […]
Anarchist News from Anarchist Black Cross Belarus The sentence was announced today for a group of anarcho-partisans who held a series of direct actions against the dictatorship about a year ago. In an attempt to isolate the activists, the trial was held in camera and only the pronouncement […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week Sen. Susan Collins is nothing if not an optimist. A year after former President Donald Trump left the White House, the Maine Republican apparently still believes better times are ahead for her party — a moment when Trump’s rabble-rousing, anti-democratic influence will recede, […]
By Damon Linker The Week Before this week, I’d never heard of Dmitri Alperovitch or Silverado Policy Accelerator, the nonprofit think tank for which he is co-founder and chair. But Alperovitch is on my radar now, thanks to a viral tweet thread about Russia’s intentions in Ukraine that […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week There’s no exit strategy when the enemy is already among us. It’s déjà vu all over again. First, the weeks of official denial. Then bad news becomes impossible to ignore, prompting a shift in policy. The new policy offers an increase in resources […]
By Matt Taibbi As the wealthiest county in America found out, difficult political problems can’t just be swept under a rug, or into a parking lot. Part Four of a Series. For parts one, two, and three of “A Culture War in Four Acts: Loudoun County, Virginia,” click […]
By Matt Taibbi In part three of a series. an opposition galvanized by revelations of bizarre school policies finds itself on an enemies list. Part three of a series. For parts one and two of “A Culture War in Four Acts: Loudoun County, Virginia,” click here and here. […]
By CLAIRE GALOFARO, AP National Writer BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) — The medicine man told her she should soon give her son back to the earth. Rachel Taylor kissed her fingertips and pressed them to the crow sewn onto a leather bag nestled on the couch in the living […]
Al-Jazeera The exquisitely preserved embryo discovered in China was preparing to hatch from its egg just like a chicken. Scientists have announced the discovery of an exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo from at least 66 million years ago that was preparing to hatch from its egg just like a […]
George Mason University Law Professor Ilya Somin debates Libertarian Party activist Angela McArdle
Meaningness Francis Schaeffer, hippie guru and architect of the modern Religious Right “The counterculture” generally refers to the youth movement of the 1960s-70s: rock and roll, anti-war protests, psychedelics, the New Left, hippies, and the sexual revolution. While puzzling out how these elements cohered—to understand the counterculture functionally […]
David Dayen: UNIONS Negotiate USPS Pilot Banking System, Could Benefit MILLIONS Of Americans
Co-director of “Your Debt Is Someone Else’s Asset,” Kim Boekbinder, describes her new film.
Political reporter at The Hill, Julia Manchester, details Democrats’ strategy for courting suburban women voters in 2022.
The Sinophobia of the right-wing seems to be representative of the fact that the uber-imperialists cannot stand the idea that any other state might be able to challenge Anglo-American hegemony on even the most peripheral level. Althought it is true that “woke” ideology is finding its way into […]
Kulinski’s discussion of “conservative” or “right-wing” versions of “cancel culture” is pretty good.
By Peter Zeihan on December 22, 2021 Demographics are at the core of what we do here at Zeihan on Geopolitics. More than just a count of population, demographic data–often expressed as a pyramid-shaped graph–can deliver a wealth of information about a society. Is the country in question rapidly […]
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By Richard Bach Jensen After discussing the extent to which the period from 1878–1934, with its frequent incidents of anarchist assassinations and bombings, can be considered the classic age of “lone wolf” or leaderless terrorism, this article focuses on four acts of anarchist violence and police and government […]
By Richard Bach Jensen, Taylor and Francis This essay presents a short overview of the “classic” era of anarchist terrorism between 1880 and World War I, while concentrating on an analysis of the little-known efforts by diplomats, politicians, and the police to control and repress anarchist terrorism. These […]
By Kerry Hawley, New York Magazine “They can’t arrest us all,’’ a future defendant had posted days before, and this was the vibe in the moment, the ecstatic invulnerability that leads someone to smear feces on the floor of the building in which the most powerful country on […]
Krystal examines the election results in Chile, the birthplace of neoliberalism, and what it could indicate about global political trends and voter behavior going forward
Krystal and Saagar break down the significance of the bipartisan coalition forming to fight the dangerous working conditions faced by those in Amazon warehouses across the country
Saagar comments on the latest nonsensical covid decree from Dr. Anthony Fauci and what it could mean for a Trump re-election campaign going forward
Krystal and Saagar respond to the comments former President Trump made in a recent event about taking the covid vaccine and getting a booster shot
Krystal and Saagar offer their perspective on the discourse by liberals surrounding Louis CK’s first big special since he was banished from public life for sexual misconduct back in 2017
Krystal and Saagar cover the Biden administration’s sudden reversal on mailing out free covid tests to Americans as part of their change in messaging about the pandemic
Krystal and Saagar talk to Haeden Wright, the wife of an Alabama coal miner on strike against Warrior Met and BlackRock about their months long struggle for a better deal
Krystal and Saagar cover the fallout that has ensued on the left after Biden’s Build Back Better agenda was shot down by Senator Joe Manchin
Pew Research Center Even in a polarized era, deep divisions in both partisan coalitions. Partisan polarization remains the dominant, seemingly unalterable condition of American politics. Republicans and Democrats agree on very little – and when they do, it often is in the shared belief that they have little […]
Tony Woodlief, executive vice president of the State Policy Network, details why independent voters are disillusioned with the political party apparatus.
Research associate at Pew Research Center, Andrew Danillier, breaks down Pew’s new political typography model.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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