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Nexus X HumectressKrystal and Saagar talk about the grim new polling for Biden, Elon Musk’s tax avoidance, Travis Scott’s role in the Astroworld tragedy, a new Pete Buttigieg documentary, IDW University launching in Austin, the upcoming Winter heating crisis, woke racism after Virginia, Russiagate fraud with Glenn Greenwald, and more! […]
By Chiara Eisner The State Many of those who helped execute people in South Carolina have never spoken publicly about their job’s toll, until now. The State spoke with 10 people involved in the work who described some of the consequences of their profession. The first time Craig […]
Crimethinc There has been lot of talk about police abolition over the past year and a half. But very different proposals coincide under this language. The coming years could see the phasing out of police departments—and in their place, an array of other agencies, activists, psychiatrists, and neighborhood […]
By Ruy Teixeira New York Post Tuesday’s election did not go well for Democrats. Democrat Terry McAuliffe lost the marquee governor’s race in heavily blue-trending Virginia, where Biden beat Trump by 10 points. And in dark blue New Jersey, where Biden won by 16 points, incumbent Democrat Phil […]
Kulinski’s commentary in this is pretty good.
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals almost three in four voters believe cancel culture has “gone too far.”
Kim Iversen breaks down Aaron Rodger’s opposition to the NFL’s vaccine rules.
Krystal and Saagar bring elections expert Kyle Kondik back on the show to discuss the impact woke politics had on the VA election results and his new book on house elections
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to Elon Musk’s pledge to sell ten percent of his ownership in Tesla.
Saagar issues a sharp critique of how the Biden administration has responded to surging gas prices being felt by Americans across the country
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the crowd surge tragedy that killed eight people in Houston, Texas last week.
Krystal and Saagar make sense of the legal hurdles that the Biden administration’s federal vaccine mandate is currently going through now that a judge has blocked the executive order
Team Rising discuss whether pushback to vaccine mandates will hurt the political fortunes of Democrats and Joe Biden in 2022 and 2024.
Krystal and Saagar explain how the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed the house of representatives without any attachment to the budget reconciliation as progressives caved to Biden
Robby Soave breaks down the Big Tech bill bringing Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tom Cotton together in an unlikely alliance.
Krystal follows the money on the Democratic politicians making noise in congress and she shines a light on the shady business practices conducted by Glenn Youngkin’s Carlyle Group
Ryan Grim makes the case that even though its fate rests in Senator Joe Manchin’s hands, President Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ bill will still pass.
Krystal and Saagar look at the newest wave of strikes taking place as thousands of Kaiser workers prepare to fight for better wages against a healthcare company that made record profits in 2020
By William Meyers, III Publishing Voters Rejected Some Magical Thinking The national media has characterized the November 2021 general election in Seattle as part of a swing to the right, to Republicans, that was more obvious in the Virginia elections. Even normally reliable narrators like the New York […]
Krystal and Saagar cover the tragic events that caused 8 people including teenagers to die at the Astroworld festival in Houston that was put together by rapper Travis Scott
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and co-founder of Justice Democrats and No Excuses PAC, Corbin Trent, discuss what’s next for President Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ agenda after Democrats passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill on Friday.
Krystal and Saagar look at how the media universally blamed the VA election results on ‘white supremacy’ after Batya Ungar-Sargon called out CNN for doing so on Brian Stelter’s show
NPR’s Tim Mak details his new book, “Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA.”
Division within as well as between the parties is almost always a good thing. By Michael Kranish Washington Post How one of Washington’s longtime Republican power players succumbed to the preeminence of the 45th president. As President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, Senate Republican […]
A continuation of the series.
By Enrico Trigoso Epoch Times A nationwide strike against vaccine mandates will take place from Nov. 8 to Nov. 11, according to the main organizer for the walkout, Leigh Dundas, a human rights attorney and public speaker. The event will kick off in Los Angeles on Monday. The locations of the […]
By Peter R. Quiñones I really need to chill the fuck out. I’ve let things get to me over the past few months and I’ve taken it out on people that are my friends. There’s no reason to be arguing or criticizing the tactics of people I agree […]
Predictably, Michael Lind once again gets it right. 100%. Although the main negative inherent in his analysis is one that he doesn’t mention. The trends he describes open the door for a return to power by the neocons. I have been concerned that we are presently in a […]
By Peter Zeihan If in recent weeks you’ve gone to a restaurant or boarded a plane of shopped in a store or remodeled your house or been in a hospital or done anything that requires a degree of assistance from a warm body, you’ve noticed it. Where are […]
I generally view debates between “social democrats” and “free-market conservatives” the same way I would view a debate between a geo-centrist and a flat-earther. But anyone in a position where they are forced to have a conversation with someone as stupid as Charlie Kirk has my sympathy. In […]
I don’t take domestic American politics seriously. While I write and comment about it, I view myself as the equivalent of a sportswriter or an entertainment writer, and not as someone who believes there is genuine value to all of this nonsense. While there are peripheral exceptions, it’s […]
My approach to economics amounts to “cut welfare and protection from the top-down, cut taxes and regulation from the bottom up.” Virtually no one agrees with me. For most liberals and leftists, the state is their religion. And most “limited government conservatives” and not a few “free market […]
By Paul Butler, Washington Post A jury of his “bubbas.” That’s what the defense lawyer for one of the three White men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery wanted for his client. Thanks to the judge, that’s pretty much the jury the defendants got, plus some bubba-ettes. Arbery was […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week After at least eight people were killed and dozens injured in a crowd surge at the Astroworld music festival in Houston on Friday, a criminal investigation is ongoing. Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said during a news conference that officials are working to “get down […]
Well, it is. The Gulf nations are eternal shitholes. By Catherine Garcia, The Week Angela Jolie said it’s “sad” that her new Marvel movie, Eternals, won’t be released in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar, after Disney denied edit requests from local censors. On Thursday, The Hollywood Reporter and […]
W. James Antle III, The Week After Republicans swept all the statewide offices in bluish Virginia with a successful campaign that partially turned on critical race theory in public schools, Democrats are gravitating toward a response: There is either no such thing as critical race theory or it’s […]
By W. James Antle III, The Week Crime wasn’t one of the top issues in last week’s elections. But it was among the reasons Democratic number-crunchers concluded their party underperformed at the ballot box last year and is primed to do even worse in the midterm elections of […]
By Harold Maas, The Week Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi called for “calm and restraint from everyone” on Sunday after surviving an assassination attempt at his residence in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, The Associated Press and CNN report. Iraqi officials said at least two explosive-laden drones were used in […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I didn’t know Daphne Dorman but she was one of my people. Daphne was a transgender comedian and a Queer rights activist in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was a gifted software engineer who created her own […]
The state is always the enemy, whether capitalist or communist. By Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society At Reason Ilya Somin, in keeping with his annual practice since 2007, has chosen May 1 — May Day — as his date for observing “Victims of Communism Day.” Somin cites the […]
The state is always the enemy, whether capitalist or communist. By Ilya Somin, Reason While I have long advocated using May 1 for this purpose, November 7 is a worthy alternative candidate, which I am happy to adopt if it can attract a broad consensus. NOTE: The following […]
The electoral system is losing legitimacy as increasingly no one agrees on the basic rules of the game, and views victory by the other side as illegitimate by definition. There are two problems with his analysis. First, while he’s correct that the electoral system is increasingly losing legitimacy, […]
Krystal and Saagar discuss the comments made by former president Trump about the influence of Israel over congress in a bizarre radio interview he had recently
The Reagan Revolution of the 1980s represented an insurgency within the capitalist class by the Sunbelt against the traditional northeastern establishment. But the rise of digital capitalism has resulted in the tech oligarchs aligning themselves with the northeastern establishment against the Sunbelt and, of course, the media and […]
In Virginia, a moderate pro-business Republican was elected governor. A black woman whose parents were immigrants from Jamaica was elected as the Republican lieutenant governor. A Latino man whose parents were Cuban refugees was elected as the Republican Attorney General. There is a lot more going on with […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX survey found 39 percent of voters approve of Kamala Harris as vice president while 45 percent disapprove and 16 percent said neither.
Author of the Speaking Security newsletter, Stephen Semler, breaks down his reporting on Congress’s budget priorities.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the CIA’s use of torture post-9/11.
Founder of The Daily Poster, David Sirota, details ongoing negotiations to repeal, or amend, the SALT cap.
Team Rising reacts to shocking polling on whether Americans believe political violence may be justified, and/or necessary,
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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