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Nexus X HumectressBy By F. Cooper Adamo Chronicles When Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn wrote his 1974 book Leftism: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse, he dedicated it to “the Noble Memory of Armand Tuffin, Marquis de la Rouërie.” Tuffin was a French aristocrat born in 1751, and one […]
The weakening of the American regime provides many opportunities for anti-imperialist struggles and the creation of startup societies now that the global hegemon is in decline, and the domestic regime is experiencing decline as well. Meanwhile, I suspect the long-term effect of recent anti-police uprisings will be a […]
Elise Swain, photo editor at The Intercept, discusses the detainment of Abdulqadir Al Madhfari first by the United States, then by the United Arab Emirates.
Team Rising discusses reporting from The Intercept about Pfizer’s efforts to kill a law making it easier for corporate whistleblowers to come forward.
Team Rising reacts to a new wave of endorsements from President Trump.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave debate potential 2024 matchups.
Historian Andres Pertierra explains the origins of current protests in Cuba
The Daily Poster’s Andrew Perez details his reporting that corporate lobbying groups are pressing the biden administration not to reform the Supreme Court.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Daily Poster journalist Walker Bragman to go over how real estate money has influenced NY Gov Kathy Hochul as part of an ongoing collaborative series
By Aaron Sankin, Dhruv Mehrotra for Gizmodo, Surya Mattu, and Annie Gilbertson The Markup Between 2018 and 2021, more than one in 33 U.S. residents were potentially subject to police patrol decisions directed by crime prediction software called PredPol. The company that makes it sent more than 5.9 […]
By Michael Warren David, Spectator World Meet the new generation of social conservatives, not necessarily religious but trying to be good men. Every day around noon, a white pickup truck comes barreling down my street. It’s one of those big-boy toys: jacked-up suspension, aftermarket muffler, turbo…the works. It’s […]
By Jennifer Schuessler New York Times One August night in 2020, David Graeber — the anthropologist and anarchist activist who became famous as an early organizer of Occupy Wall Street — took to Twitter to make a modest announcement. “My brain feels bruised with numb surprise,” he wrote, […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals how Americans define “fully vaccinated.” The survey was conducted online within the United States from November 29-30 among 924 registered voters by Harris X.
Krystal and Saagar cover the claim made by Alec Baldwin ahead of his first primetime interview since the tragedy on the Rust film set that he did not pull the trigger that killed a woman
Kim Iversen discusses the media coverage of the charges against accused school shooter, Ethan Crumbley.
Krystal and Saagar break down the new coronavirus travel guidelines implemented by the Biden administration in response to the Omicron variant being detected in the United States
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the announcement that Symone Sanders will be leaving the Biden Administration.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by economist and researcher Amory Gethin to look at how cultural divides caused by education have weakened class politics in America and elsewhere
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to Dr. Fauci’s most recent appearance at a CNN global town hall.
Krystal and Saagar follow up on their coverage of the Chris Cuomo situation at CNN now that he has been suspended for aiding his brother’s response to sexual misconduct claims
Journalist Glenn Greenwald details the newest round of criticism facing Dr. Fauci regarding NIH-funded experimentation on animals.
Krystal and Saagar cover the newly revealed story from the 2020 Presidential campaign that Trump knowingly had covid and went into a debate with Biden anyway
Team Rising breaks down yesterday’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court.
Saagar breaks down the significance of Twitter for our current media environment now that the new CEO of the company has created rules that could damage journalism in a major way
Robby Soave details ASU students’ efforts to bar Kyle Rittenhouse from attending school there.
Krystal and Saagar cover how the Women’s Tennis Association has responded to China disappearing tennis star Peng Shuai with defiance in contrast to the Wall Street tycoons who bend the knee
Ryan Grim makes the case against further U.S. intelligence intervention in Latin America.
Krystal and Saagar give viewers all of the latest news from the Ghislaine Maxwell trial as victims of she and Jeffrey Epstein’s serial pedophilia and sex trafficking testify in court
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the latest developments on the emerging Omicron variant.
Krystal covers the real estate gold rush happening in the Metaverse among the wealthy and well connected who have enough excess money to spend millions on virtual reality
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Newsweek editor Batya Ungar-Sargon about her new book, Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy—and her political voyage from doctrinaire progressive to self-described “left-wing populist.” LISTEN HERE
The psychology of extremism can help explain how our society has turned into a 24/7 culture war. The latest “Reality Check with John Avlon: Extremist Beat” examines the science between what’s causing people on the left and right to grow more extreme – with social psychology professor Jonathan […]
Anarchist News From CrimethInc. 22 Years after N30—What It Can Teach Us Today Twenty-two years ago today, anarchists and other protesters successfully blockaded and shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. This was the dramatic debut of what journalists dubbed the “anti-globalization movement”—in fact, […]
Anarchist News November 30, 2021 Anarchistische Groep Amsterdam We are proud to announce our up and coming compendium of corona criticism! You can find the forward below in which we summarize and prepare you for a plethora of anarchist analysis. The following collection attempts to gather as many […]
By Aaron Kheriaty, MD Vaccine mandates and passports are an early and opportunistic step toward new modes of governance and social control. Readers of this newsletter may recall, if they glanced at the “About Human Flourishing” page, that I included the following descriptor when I launched: The real […]
By Sharon Zhang, Truthout As the U.S. faces converging existential issues perpetuated largely by establishment politicians and the right wing, new polling released on Monday finds that a majority of young Americans believe that U.S. democracy is on the brink of failure — or that it has already failed. The […]
By James Walker Quillette With the passing of the idea of the canon into the dustbin of history, the notion of a “required reading” list for all humanity has become seen as something quaint. In our “post-postmodern” condition, even the idea of revising the canon, entering new masterpieces […]
By Matthew Walther, The American Conservative Of all the forms of divination condemned by the Church and rejected by our natural faculties of reason, logomancy is the most obviously absurd. Hobbes, the wittiest of English philosophers, tells us that words “are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon […]
Conservatives: We value a president with strong moral values, is good with money, etc. Also Conservatives: Vote Trump
By Brendan Morrow The Week The International Olympic Committee says it has held another video call with tennis star Peng Shuai after the Women’s Tennis Association again expressed “serious doubts” that she’s safe. The IOC said on Thursday that it had a Wednesday video call with Peng, the tennis […]
By Kelly Hayes, Truthout Why would police want a multi-million dollar gunshot detection system that doesn’t work? “ShotSpotter manufactures the urgency of an active threat, offering situations where there is likely no risk, but where police can operate within a narrative of extreme risk,” says Kelly Hayes. In this […]
By Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept AFTER TWO DECADES of unceasing warfare in the Middle East and Central Asia, the Biden administration has unveiled its first comprehensive review of the deployment of U.S. forces globally — and it envisions a virtually unchanged military footprint, with a sharpened commitment to the bipartisan policy […]
Some of the major culture war issues of the future are going to be polygamy/polyamory, prostitution/sex work, and “minor-attracted persons.” And these issues are going to be just as contentious on the Left as they are between the Left and Right. Meanwhile, it looks like the abortion wars […]
Wall Street Journal Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford University at 19 years old to start the company that became Theranos Inc., a startup that promised to revolutionize the blood-testing industry. After operating largely in secret for a decade, Theranos began in 2013 publicizing its technology, which it […]
By Bindu Bansinath and Amanda Arnold The Cut In January 2019, Empire actor Jussie Smollett was beaten by two men who yelled racist and homophobic slurs at him, and put his head in a noose — an attack that was first investigated as a violent hate crime but […]
By Rebecca Traister New York Mag, Intelligencer The aftermath of the Supreme Court’s oral arguments this week on the fate of Roe v. Wade — in which a phalanx of right-wing justices made plain their disdain for the law — has been a festival of finger-pointing and recrimination […]
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court heard arguments in which it was asked to overturn a nationwide right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years. The fate of the court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion throughout the United States and its 1992 […]
Krystal and Saagar talk about the new Omicron travel restrictions, Trump’s covid coverup, Chris Cuomo’s suspension, China’s relationship with Wall St, Ghislaine Maxwell trial, Meta gold rush, new Twitter rules, culture war vs class war, and more!
Briahna Joy Gray speaks with Batya Ungar-Sargon, Deputy Opinion Editor of Newsweek & author of a provocative new book titled Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy. A self-described “former woke,” Batya is now skeptical of left media culture that feels increasingly elite & distant from journalisms […]
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce Will Roe v. Wade be reversed, or simply defanged? Today the Supreme Court signaled that it will uphold an abortion ban in Mississippi (not to be confused with the law in Texas that caused an uproar earlier this year). For that law to stay […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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