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Nexus X HumectressBy ProphetBattlestone I have begun reading Georges Sorel’s “Reflections on Violence”. Syndicalism interests me, and Sorel was referred to quite a bit by James Burnham in “The Machiavellians”. The section in quoting further down comes from the ‘Letter to Daniel Halevy’, which precedes the third edition of the […]
By Noah Millman, The Week Our pandemic rules increasingly make no sense — and it’s hurting public health. I spent about a week in October at the Austin Film Festival and Writers’ Conference, attending panel discussions, round-tables, pitch competitions — and, of course, parties. Because there’s still a […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week It’s never easy being the Democratic governor of a famously red state. Still, it was a surprise Friday morning when Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) came out strongly against President Biden’s workplace vaccine mandate. “While I appreciate the intention to keep people safe, a […]
Ryan Cooper, The Week Why liberals need to stop doing collective guilt over election results. Democrats whiffed the Virginia elections this week, and the dread “Karen” is to blame. So argues Wajahat Ali at The Daily Beast, pointing to exit polls finding that a 57 percent majority of […]
By Samuel Goldman, The Week Even if they can’t stop the flood, it would be crazy not to prepare, Imagine you didn’t know anything about Joe Biden, Donald Trump, the COVID-19 pandemic, critical race theory, Democrats’ stalled spending bill, or any of the other personalities or issues that […]
More Loundon County drama, apparently. By Peter R Quinones Look, you all know that I am very susceptible to getting emotional, especially when children are involved. But here goes. The backstory to this and how it started is crucial. It wasn’t even news until, Scott Smith, the father […]
My tentative assessment of the Virginia election is that, at least in some geographical areas, the essence of the culture war is shifting from the Right vs Left to the Center vs Left. The culture of the US has moved considerably leftward over the past decade, and elite […]
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Money Metals Precious metals markets reacted this week to news of the Federal Reserve’s tapering plans. The Fed didn’t deliver any real surprises, though. It left interest rates unchanged as expected and confirmed that it would gradually cut back on monthly asset […]
By Joel Kotkin The stunning defeat suffered by the Democrats in Virginia, a surprisingly close race in deep blue New Jersey and the defeat of a “police defunding measure” in Minneapolis represent a remarkable turning point in American politics. It is less an affirmation of a resurgent Trumpism […]
By Joel Kotkin Like its global predecessors, the COP26 Glasgow conference will usher in a new wave of apocalyptic warnings about climate change. It will also likely prove no more successful, in terms of actually addressing the issue, than its predecessors, particularly as China, India and other developing […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to the President Biden’s new deadline for his federal vaccine mandate.
The Democrats are now the party of the capitalist class generally and the upper-middle-class generally. The Republicans are the party of the right-wing of the ruling class, with their core “base” being a nursing home/trailer park coalition for whom politics is a WWE spectacle and their general electorate […]
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff break down how the Dem plan to lift the SALT cap as part of the budget bill will lead to a huge tax cut for the wealthy, especially those in blue states
Author of TK News and co-host of Useful Idiots podcast, Matt Taibbi, gives his take on why Terry McAuliffe’s campaign for governor failed, and what it means for Democrats in 2022 and 2024.
Guest host Marshall Kosloff goes over how the Biden administration and its backers in the media misunderstood the mandate given to them when Democrats took back power in 2020
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to news that a Pentagon watchdog failed to find misconduct in the August drone strike that killed an Afghan family.
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff cover the new decision by the Federal Election Commission to allow foreign money to be spent on ballot initiatives in the US and why that is a big problem
Team Rising debates whether the Build Back Better budget reconciliation package will really reach a vote this week.
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff look at the Virginia election results in the context of what the GOP’s future will be especially as Trump continues to loom large over the 2024 election
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) went after proponents of the Green New Deal and the Biden administration during Wednesday’s press conference on American energy independence, the climate, and oil and gas.
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff respond to the media reactions that took place during the live coverage of election night where narratives about why the GOP won already began to unfold
Ryan Grim breaks down the story behind the tiki torch-touting ‘protestors’ at a Youngkin campaign event late last week.
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff give their top takeaways from election night as Dems were slaughtered up and down the ballot in multiple states including in Virginia where Glenn Youngkin came out victorious.
Robby Soave details the origin of the “let’s go Brandon” chant by protestors.
This analysis is right on the money and represents something I’ve been noticing for a while. The framework of the “culture war” has started to shift where it is no longer a matter of “liberals” vs the “religious right” but “wokesters” vs “normies.” The “Hidden Tribes” study published […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Rahm Emanuel’s future as Ambassador to Japan, plus new reporting from The Intercept on the NIH’s role in helping Ecohealth Alliance police its own funding of risky bat coronavirus research.
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff are joined by public policy expert Oren Cass to better understand what workers want from unions that they are currently not receiving
Some interesting economic analysis from Yanis Varoufakis. I think at least his basic argument is correct. The tech revolution, digital capitalism, the debt economy, financialization, globalization, the expansion of the professional-managerial class, and neoliberalism, along with other forces, have converged to create a new kind of economy.
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff talk about the election night takeaways, mainstream media melting down, GOP 2024 possibilities, Dems SALT tax cut for the rich, foreign money in elections, the new culture war, Biden’s mandate, what American workers want with Oren Cass, and more!
By Dolores Martín Moruno This article explores the way in which the Spanish Civil War has been traditionally shaped in the collective memory as a Manicheanconflict fought between two well-defined sides, the Republicans and the Nationalists, in order to demythologize this common representation in contemporary Spanish society. According to […]
By Jason Wilson, The Guardian A Guardian investigation has revealed that a controversial church whose leader has openly expressed the ambition of creating a “theocracy” in America has accumulated significant influence in the city of Moscow, Idaho. Christ Church has a stated goal to “make Moscow a Christian […]
The usual “we have investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong” line. By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent Pentagon review has concluded that the U.S. drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children in the final days of the Afghanistan war […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week Defund the police” is a dead idea. That’s actually been true for some months now, but any doubts about the notion’s viability should be ended entirely after Tuesday’s election results in Minneapolis, where voters rejected an opportunity to replace the police department with […]
By Ryan Cooper, The Week Now the fate of American democracy depends on proving me wrong. On election night in 2012, Republican nominee Mitt Romney conceded defeat around 1 a.m. After calling then-President Barack Obama to offer his congratulations on re-election, Romney gave a speech to his supporters. […]
By David Faris, The Week Why poor showings in Virginia and New Jersey elections are a bad omen for 2022 Voters went to the polls Tuesday in off-year gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey that have long served as the first reliable preview of the country’s political mood […]
By Jeva Lange, The Week Tuesday was a night of upsets, shoo-ins, nailbiters, and way too many cats. Here’s our scorecard for the 2021 elections. Winner: New York City night owls The 110th mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, called it “almost silly” to suggest he shouldn’t have […]
By Matt Taibbi Notes on a “realigning” election. The drama that played out in upscale Loudoun County, Virginia over the last year or so, and cost Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe the governorship last night, is a book waiting to be written. In fact, if companies like HBO or […]
By Sean Sullivan Washington Post Democrats reeling from the party’s showing on Tuesday night were sharply critical of its direction and agenda — already the subject of months of infighting on Capitol Hill — concluding it threatens to devastate their efforts to hold on to the House and […]
By Hugo Garcia Fernandez As the source of one of the broadest movements of solidarity in history, the Spanish Civil War represents an ideal laboratory for the culture-oriented and increasingly transnational historiography that has developed since the turn of the century. This chapter examines the discourse and actions […]
By Kimberly Kindy Washington Post As Mark Lomax campaigns for the top law enforcement position in Bucks County, Pa., there’s one question some voters keep asking: Will he be a “constitutional sheriff”? The 62-year-old former state trooper has largely avoided the polarizing label, which refers to a movement […]
The start of motion pictures, late 1890’s. Rare film of cities, towns and countries. High-quality remastered prints from the Lumiere archives and EYE Film Museum. Clips listed in order below. Music Tracks: “Dream Walking” & “What Must Be” by Dhruva Aliman Timestamps: 0:00 April 1897 – Jaffa Gate […]
Trad News Voters in a U.S. state have got bored with their Blue Centrist governor of a few years and have voted in a Red Centrist governor. A few years later they will quite possibly vote in another Blue centrist, in what may be described as a “daring […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds that a plurality of voters consider coronavirus to be the most important issue today.
Kim Iversen breaks down the controversy surrounding Elon Musk and the head of the UN’s World Food Programme.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave detail the prescription drug pricing deal Democrats reached as part of their effort to pass President Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda.
So what? It’s not like the US never interferes in the internal politics of other countries. Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to the FEC ruling that would legalize foreign contributions to U.S. referendum campaigns.
Normies aren’t going to vote to abolish the fuzz during a time of rising violent crime and in the immediate aftermath of a wave of riots. Most people prefer safety and security above all else. See Maslow. Team Rising discusses the failure of Question 2 in Minneapolis.
In Virginia, Democrats are acting like we just had a March on Rome, and Republicans are acting like the Berlin Wall just fell. Youngkin is a moderate Republican “pro-business” type whose only real issue is taxes. He’s light years away from being a right-wing populist or far-right. Youngkin […]
Youngkin ran a very shrewd campaign. He knew exactly what buttons to push. He made opposition to CRT, mask/vaccine mandates, and being pro-“parents rights” and “tough on crime” the centerpiece of his campaign. Meanwhile, the Democrats got caught with their pants down. But Youngkin is just a Mitt […]
Some of the discussion of the rural/urban divide and state/city divide in this is interesting. Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and national director of the Working Families Party, Maurice Mitchell, discuss last night’s election results.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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