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Nexus X HumectressBy Ryan Cooper, The Week Just the facts, bureaucrats. The United States’ COVID pandemic performance is among the worst in the world — particularly given our unparalleled advantages. We lead the planet in confirmed infections and deaths, and while India probably has had more of both that went […]
By Samuel Goldman, The Week The Biden administration is unwilling to fight for Ukraine. Berlin must choose its course. Germany has long had a Russia problem. Even before their unification under the Hohenzollerns in 1870, German principalities struggled to deal with their giant neighbor to the east. In 1863, […]
David Sirota breaks down the bill that could have protected Illinois Amazon workers from being threatened with termination shortly before a deadly tornado destroyed the factory they were working in.
Team Rising reacts to Elon Musk’s ‘Person of the Year’ award from Time Magazine.
Katie Halper discusses why mainstream media dismiss figures like Julian Assange and Joe Rogan.
Team Rising reacts to reports that health costs during the pandemic pushed over half a billion people into poverty.
Team Rising discusses the future of Truth Social.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss what, if anything, could unite Americans around a common goal again.
By Andrew Sullivan And the terrifying tenacity of Trump’s cult. A year ago, as the vaccines began to arrive and as the nightmare of the Trump administration appeared to be over, I found myself unusually optimistic. In an end-of-year essay I admitted was written in part to cheer […]
By Matt Taibbi An Underground Railroad simulation at an elementary school brings a long-simmering political dispute out into the open, triggering a bizarre series of unfortunate events. February 5th, 2019. An educational consultant named Dr. Linda Deans walked to the lectern at a meeting of the Loudoun County […]
By Matt Taibbi The documents at the heart of a nationwide controversy. In preparation for today’s forthcoming story, A Culture War in Four Acts: Loudoun County, Virginia. Part Two: ‘The Incident,’ TK News sent Freedom of Information requests to the county on several questions. Concerned with the issue […]
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange As the Federal Reserve prepares to taper its asset purchases, investors are preparing to adjust their portfolios. Some are dumping gold. They could be making a big mistake. Sentiment toward precious metals turned negative as prices fell over the past few weeks. […]
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Daily Poster journalist David Sirota as part of an ongoing collaboration to talk about how Amazon funded lobbyists blocked a worker protection bill before the tornadoes struck their warehouse
The Trump family is one of the most talked about families in the United States. Donald Trump’s presidency elevated that and helped put them on an international stage that brought the family to the forefront of the world. Over the last half decade, journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week Extreme weather doesn’t really bother me. I’ve lived in Kansas most of my life, have witnessed tornadoes and flooding, love nothing more than a good gullywasher rain storm. You respect the danger of such events, but you also get used to them. It’s […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week An “unprecedented” storm system attacked the central United States Wednesday night into Thursday morning “with high winds that kicked up dust storms, fueled wildfires,” “knocked down power lines,” and left “more than 510,000 customers without power,” The Washington Post reports. Over 36 million people […]
By W. James Antle III, The Week There’s no question the events of Jan. 6, in which supporters of former President Donald Trump attacked the Capitol, were terrible and had the potential to be even worse in terms of injury or loss of life. The Democratic-led House committee […]
By Bari Weiss How the mogul turned her fame into real power. Plus: cancel culture and criminal justice reform; Trump and TikTok; beauty and breaking the rules. In the middle of the 20th century, suddenly there was this new thing called an astronaut. And in the decades that […]
By Noah Millman The Week I have, throughout the pandemic, been something of a COVID moderate. I supported strong restrictions at the start of the pandemic, on both practical and moral grounds. But as early as May of 2020, I saw America wasn’t going to take the steps […]
A huge livestream to support Julian Assange happening in the Breaking Points studio with guests such as Glenn Greenwald, Gabriel Shipton, Noam Chomsky, and more!
Kim Iversen breaks down what the “new normal” might look like in 2022.
Krystal and Saagar compare the past statements President Biden has made about cancelling some student debt to what the White House plans on doing about it now
Krystal and Saagar look at the methods used by Gen Z activists on TikTok and other social media platforms to fight the effort by Kellogg’s to shut down striking union workers.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss high-profile labor organizing happening across the country.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by two authors and foreign policy experts who debate on whether the US should defend Taiwan or not if China were to invade in the near future
Insider’s Dave Levinthal reacts to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comments about whether members of Congress should be allowed to own stocks,
Krystal details the extent to which Amazon’s greed put the lives of warehouse workers in jeopardy as deadly tornadoes struck multiple states and killed over 100 people
Team Rising reacts to San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s newfound commitment to policing and law enforcement.
Krystal and Saagar criticize Twitter’s decision to censor information about vaccines that has shown by be scientifically true even though it is inconvenient for covid narratives
Ryan Grim breaks down the alleged antisemitic comments made towards Rep. Josh Gottheimer.
Krystal and Saagar respond to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s justification of insider trading by members of congress including herself to the tune of millions of dollars and major conflicts of interest
Robby Soave makes the case against airline mask mandates.
Saagar goes over the new covid madness arising from the Omicron variant on college campuses and in blue states and why he has had enough of the endless covid guidelines
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to the breakdown in Build Back Better Act negotiations between President Joe Biden and Senator Joe Manchin.
Krystal and Saagar cover the corrupt corporate backing and lobbyist influence of Punchbowl news which is one of the largest and most important newsletters in DC
By Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal Just maybe, voters are starting to regret the consequences of electing progressives. For the stressed-out voters in your political life, an aphorism to print and wrap in ribbon for Christmas giving is “Live and learn.” Though in these crime-sodden times, it might […]
By Nikki Trautman Baszynski The Appeal Larry Krasner’s clear win in the Philadelphia District Attorney primary election should have been a wake-up call to journalists who spent weeks breathlessly painting the race as a referendum on progressive prosecutors and their decarceral policies. Instead, they doubled down, redirecting their […]
By Jennifer Doleac Bloomberg More lenient policies don’t appear to be contributing to a crime wave in urban areas across the U.S. Violent crime in urban America is rising. There have been 13.5% more homicides so far in 2021 compared to last year, across 84 cities, and the […]
By Jessica Contrera Washington Post An Internet mob wanted to rescue a 13-year-old girl. Instead, they terrified her, derailed real trafficking investigations and incited ‘save the children’ violence. The real Samara Duplessis was sprawled across her comforter, her thumb on Instagram. Summer could drag on in the Detroit […]
Krystal and Saagar talk about Julian Assange, Pelosi’s defense of corruption, Twitter censorship, student debt cancellation, Gen Z digital activism, punchbowl news corruption, Amazon workers dying, Omicron madness, defending Taiwan, and more! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Free Assange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DRVD… National Review Debate: https://www.nationalreview.com/magazi… https://www.nationalreview.com/magazi… Warrior Met Fund: https://umwa.org/umwa2021strikefund/ Timestamps: Assange: […]
It’s interesting to compare this piece by Williamson likening the J6ers to the Bolshies with Michael Lind’s piece at Tablet comparing the BLM/Antifa/whoever with the Jacobins. Both of these analogies may work on a remote or peripheral level, but those who are always looking to foreign examples to […]
Tulsi Gabbard continues to speak out in defense of Julian Assange. This is a mashup of her statement today plus previous statements the past few years. To my knowledge, Bernie and the squad remain silent.
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll shows President Joe Biden’s approval rating has slightly improved.
Kim Iversen breaks down New Zealand’s newest public health policy.
Is football the next target of totalitarian humanism? By Joel Mathis The Week In April, Phillip Adams killed six people — including two children, ages 9 and 5 — then turned the gun on himself, dying at the age of 32. On Tuesday, we learned a likely reason […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss whether public health officials should spend more time seeking effective treatments for COVID, not just preventatives.
By Damon Linker, The Week So now we know: Although Fox News’ primetime message for much of the past year has been that Democrats are wildly exaggerating the seriousness of the insurrection that took place on Capitol Hill last Jan. 6, major figures at the network — including […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week Celebrated author, professor, critic, and feminist bell hooks died Wednesday at her home in Kentucky, the Lexington Herald-Leader confirms. She was 69. According to a press release from her niece Ebony Motley, hooks had been ill, and died surrounded by friends and family. […]
Julian Assange’s brother, Gabriel Shipton, details how the Wikileaks founder is faring after his stroke.
By Brendan Morrow The Week Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted for the murder of George Floyd, has now also pleaded guilty to violating Floyd’s civil rights. Chauvin on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the federal charges, changing his previous plea of not guilty, NBC News reports. […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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