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Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition The majority of Millennials are overwhelming in favor of a broad variety of “progressive” policies, most of which involve the expansion of government. They are more likely than Generation X to support government policies that penalize people who make seemingly offensive comments, […]
By Meryl Kornfield and Mariana Alfaro Washington Post Phil Spampinato had never contemplated the question of whether violence against the government might be justified — at least not in the United States. But as he watched Republicans across the country move to reshape election laws in response to former […]
Some excerpts from Peter H. Wilson’s “Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire.” German Freedom Mutual accusations of lack of patriotism peaked during the Thirty Years War, with Protestants accusing Catholics of selling the Empire to Spanish Jesuits and the pope, while Catholics blamed Protestants […]
By Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch Professional sports is a cutthroat business. Succeed and the people running the show reap rich rewards. Fail to meet expectations and you get handed your walking papers. American-style war in the 21st century is quite a different matter. Of course, war is not a […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave make their 2022 midterm election predictions.
Have we pan-secessionists found our leader? If the person who gets the pan-secessionist ball rolling turns out to be this illiterate fruitbat, so be it. “Marjorie Taylor Greene is a troll. But it’s not either or. She can be a troll, and she can be a serious threat to […]
By Kevin Hockmuth For those charting the intellectual mood of the mainline American left, it is hard to avoid sensing that a specter is haunting liberal sensibilities—the specter of wokism. Indeed, a stream of anecdotes highlighting this foreboding development has been frequently relayed and expounded upon in the […]
Christopher Lynn Hedges is an American journalist, Presbyterian minister, author and television host. He has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005) and reported from more than fifty countries. Hedges […]
By Mary Louise Kelly, Noah Caldwell, and Ashish Valentine, National Public Radio As the anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol approaches, three retired U.S. generals have warned that another insurrection could occur after the 2024 presidential election and the military could instigate it. The generals – […]
Greg Lukianoff, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, joins The Realignment to discuss the differences between debates over political correctness in the […]
By Gary Galles Mises Institute As a libertarian, I have long objected to being characterized on a left-right political spectrum (as with studies of political affiliations that group libertarians with republicans or conservatives on the right). In response to inquiries about where I fit in that framework, over […]
Rebel News Founder Ezra Levant alleges he was denied a mortgage from a bank due to his political views.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss how religion might impact Americans’ reactions to proof of extraterrestrial life.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave weigh in on data regarding Americans who have renounced their citizenship.
Climate scientist Peter Kalmus discusses climate change skepticism and the influence of the fossil fuel industry on climate policy.
Host of Working People Podcast and editor-in-chief of The Real News, Max Alvarez, details his new book, “The Work of living.”
The only way to prevent fentanyl overdoses is to legalize opiates and coca-based products and to allow them to be sold at pharmacies and liquor stores. Unfortunately, most people are incapable of rational thinking when it comes to drugs. “Anti-drugcraft” is the anti-witchcraft of the present era, and […]
Team Rising discuss childrens’ mental health and pandemic school closures.
By Anna Mulrine Grobe Christian Science Monitor When her husband was a Marine Corps sergeant, Bianca Strzalkowski struggled with what, to the couple, felt like a shameful secret: Even on their active-duty military salary, which included a housing allowance, they could not afford enough food and diapers for […]
Team Rising debates the impact of the Build Back Better bill’s apparent failure on Democrats’ performance in next year’s midterms.
Krystal and Saagar tell the story of graduate students at NYU who are paying sky high prices for tuition and living expenses that leads to colossal debt and desperate methods to pay it off
By Paul Gottfried, American Greatness If Democrats can get their way legislatively within the next few months, they may do better than expected in November. The Greek historian Polybius begins his history of the Punic Wars by explaining that Rome “from the beginning” was driven by a single […]
By Keith Preston Every so often, I like to provide readers with an updated description of who I am and what I do as newer readers are constantly coming to Attack the System who are unaware of this site’s history. I’ve written previous narratives containing the backstory of […]
By MARK OSBORNE and DEENA ZARU A truck driver who was sentenced to 110 years in prison for a fatal accident in Colorado has been resentenced to 10 years after an outcry from family and advocates. Gov. Jared Polis announced the commutation of Rogel Aguilera-Mederos’ sentence Thursday. “I […]
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff MARJAH, Afghanistan — The tea was hot. The room, oppressive and dusty. And the Taliban commander I sat across from in a bullet-scarred building in southern Afghanistan had tried to kill me a little over a decade ago. As I had tried to kill him. […]
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By VERONIQUE DE RUGY Reason For decades, libertarians have focused on illiberalism coming from the political left. But authoritarianism has taken root among many conservatives across the world. At the eve of a new year, it’s traditional to make a resolution or two. I have no such list […]
It’s Going Down In this latest episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we are joined with a participant of the CrimethInc. collective as we spend several hours broadly discussing contemporary anarchist history and organization, the impact of both material conditions and repression on those organizational forms, how […]
Crimethinc n Greece, the right-wing New Democracy government came to power in summer 2019, initiating a campaign of repression targeting refugees and the anarchist movement. The following spring, the COVID-19 pandemic hit Greece, enabling New Democracy to clamp down yet further. Yet anarchists have shown considerable resilience, shifting […]
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By Kaia Hubbard, US News and World Report Long-standing political divisions within states are being heightened in a hyper-partisan climate, fueling secession movements across the country as walking away is looking easier than coming together. When three rural Maryland counties recently threatened to secede from the state, citing […]
By William G. Gale and Darrell M. West Brookings Institute One troubling sign of our deteriorating civic mood is the shocking breadth of support for secession in the United States. At a time of widespread polarization—where people are arguing over a supposedly stolen election, vaccine mandates, mask-wearing, and […]
By Thomas L. Knapp, The Knappster … but they just can’t bring themselves to admit error, hubris, or falsehood. Flashback to March of 2020. Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask …. […]
By Jamie Lee Curtis Taete, The Guardian Fifty years after a golden age for the spiritual groups, many have disbanded. But pockets remain throughout the state Half a century ago, you could barely walk down the street in California without tripping over some kind of fringe spiritual sect […]
By Lindsey Ellefson Yahoo News! The BBC apologized Thursday for a Wednesday segment that featured Jeffrey Epstein’s former lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, discussing the guilty verdicts against Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. In addition to previously representing Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, Dershowitz […]
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic The United States is logging record-setting numbers of coronavirus cases in the final week of 2021. The country is now averaging more than 300,000 new cases per day as it prepares to enter a third calendar year spent battling the pandemic. We […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week For me, 2021 will always be the year Donald Trump didn’t go away. I had thought — and predicted — that shorn of office and social media access, the former president would be forced to give up the spotlight. And it’s true that […]
By Bonnie Kristian, The Week This article is part of The Week‘s 20th anniversary section, looking back at how the world has changed since our first issue was published in April 2001. Saint Paul considered himself an “apostle to the Gentiles” though he did not number among them, […]
By Brendan Morrow, The Week The gunman who killed five people and left others injured in the Denver area this week was apparently “targeting specific people” and knew the victims, police say. Five people were killed on Monday in a shooting spree in Denver and Lakewood, Colorado, and officials […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week It’s finally Boba Fett’s time to shine. The second live-action Star Wars series on Disney+, The Book of Boba Fett, premiered Wednesday, putting the spotlight on the fan favorite bounty hunter best known for bringing Han Solo to Jabba the Hutt in the original trilogy. As a quick refresher: […]
By AntiBoomerEquation Prophet Battlestone’s Amysterium Those who put any effort into studying historical fascism will know that it was associated with syndicalism (worker self-management of industries) and corporatism (as in medieval or Roman society, where the different orders have representation on government and self regulation of affairs). It […]
By Frank Fang, Epoch Times Cuba and China have signed a cooperation plan to push forward construction projects under Beijing’s controversial overseas infrastructure program, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which has saddled many participating countries with heavy debt loads. The Chinese Embassy in Cuba announced the agreement […]
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By Eric Boehm Reason A one percentage point increase in interest rates translates into a $30 trillion increase in interest costs on the national debt. The optimistic scenario goes like this. America shakes off what remains of the pandemic in the coming months without the need for trillions […]
Matt Taibbi makes the case that if Democrats don’t change their tune on parental influence in school curriculum, they’re doomed in 2022.
Kim Iversen and Robby Soave discuss how travel restrictions have resulted in the rescheduling of a Joe Rogan show in Vancouver.
Kim Iversen and Robby Soave discuss disturbing attacks on human rights and press freedom happening worldwide.
2021 was a historic year in America’s judicial system. From the Derek Chauvin trial for the murder of George Floyd to the Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha, take a look back at the biggest courtroom moments of the year.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by nonprofit director and former rancher Bill Bullard to better understand how large meatpackers are ripping off ranchers and the American people
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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