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Nexus X HumectressBy 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
Krystal looks back at the top media lies told in 2021 from a long and extensive list of spins and falsehoods to choose from
Krystal and Saagar break down the decision by the Biden administration to halt student loan payments until May after pressure from media outlets caused them to change their position
Krystal and Saagar look at the positive Omicron variant news, Biden getting pushed on covid tests, student loan payments being paused again, FBI infiltrating BLM protests, Amazon warehouse workers dying in Bessemer, biggest media lies of 2021, Saagar’s year end retrospective, how Breaking Points fans are feeling […]
Apparently, the right-wing is divided on Russia. Dick Morris is a former Clinton flunkie who defected to the neocons. Newsmax is a low-brow “movement conservative” publication whose main audience is now MAGAtards. But Carlson is also super popular with the MAGAtards as well while disliked by the neocons. […]
Carlson is pretty good on Russia but he pushes the Sinophobia to the max. Krystal and Saagar comment on a segment from Tucker Carlson Tonight featuring a guest who expressed a bloodthirsty desire for ‘Chinese skulls’ and a more masculine military
The Covid-19 omicron variant has now been detected in all 50 states, just three weeks after the first case of the new strain was discovered the U.S., with many states now reporting more new daily cases than any time during the pandemic. NBC News’ Erika Edwards explains which […]
Author Tony Messenger details his new book, “Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice.”
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave make their predictions on what the newly spotted ‘moon hut’ might be.
By Nicole Duncan-Smith Atlanta Black Star An Idaho sheriff is being charged for pulling out a gun on seven young girls between the ages of 12 to 16 in November. He is charged with assaulting their church group leader and publicly threatening to shoot her in the head […]
By Mark Tapscott Epoch Times When New Jersey Democratic Rep. Albio Sires announced that he wouldn’t seek reelection, he became the 23rd sitting Democrat in the House of Representatives to opt out of seeking another term in Congress. For a party with a majority that depends upon a […]
By Charles M. Blow, New York Times The Supreme Court on Friday issued a decision allowing abortion providers in Texas to continue challenging a new law that bans most abortions in the state after about six weeks of pregnancy. But while the conservative majority didn’t close the door […]
By Brandon Gillespie , Lindsay Kornick | Fox News Charles M. Blow joined Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in invoking former Vice President John C. Calhoun in comparing the sentiment surrounding today’s debate over abortion to the slavery debate. Liberal New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow claimed […]
“Never gonna be president now” -Thomas Jefferson (Hamilton Musical)
Ideological questions aside, what these groups appear to be doing is tactically correct. By Sergio Olmos, The Guardian The far-right is moving towards decentralized movements in regional venues where, experts warn, they can have far-reaching and dangerous impacts. This month more than 100 members of a white supremacist […]
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 […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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