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Nexus X HumectressBy David Faris The Week America’s political violence problem took a dramatic turn for the worse on Friday when Kyle Rittenhouse — who shot three people during riots following police reform protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 25, 2020, killing two — was acquitted of all charges in what had become the latest in […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week Yet another COVID-19 surge has arrived. Instead of a stretch of predicted decline, cases have risen about 30 percent this month, The New York Times‘ David Leonhardt reports. And while it’s essentially futile to try and predict what’s behind these frustrating numbers (a […]
By Reeves Wiedeman Intelligencer It’s been a long 48 hours for your boy,” Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, said in an address to his 2.7 million Twitter followers late on a Friday night earlier this month. Portnoy was filming a response to an article published by […]
By Matt Taibbi and Ford Fischer Everybody in America you don’t like, gathered in one place The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse began as a screaming headline toward the end of a summer of historic unrest, and concluded as all public spectacles in America seem to these days, in […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll shows President Biden’s approval ratings have slightly improved. This survey was conducted online within the United States from Nov 16 -Nov 17 – Nov 18 among 2787 registered voters by HarrisX. The sampling margin of error of this poll […]
Krystal and Saagar go through the findings of a report by the NY State Assembly about Andrew Cuomo’s coverup of coronavirus deaths, sexual harassment, and misuse of resources for profit
Rep. Ro Khanna explains what he believes is Democrats’ central messaging problem.
Saagar does what the media elites refuse to do and provides an update on the Ghislaine Maxwell trial that could implicate many prominent members of society.
Kim Iversen predicts that lockdowns and mandates will increase in the U.S. this coming winter.
Krystal gives viewers a healthy guide on what they should choose to avoid talking about during Thanksgiving when politics inevitably comes up and family members have differences
Journalist Matt Taibbi details what the media should learn from their coverage of Kyle Rittenhouse.
Krystal and Saagar cover the $100 million donation made by Jeff Bezos to the presidential library of Barack Obama which is being funded by private donations instead of taxpayer dollars
Team Rising breaks down the controversy surrounding Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by podcast host Briahna Joy Gray to hear about her strategies for discussing race in America with those who hold different views from her own
Ryan Grim questions why modern Republicans are willing to dismantle bipartisan election commissions.
Krystal and Saagar go through all the details of the Waukesha attack and the suspect involved whose extensive criminal history and violent behavior has come to light
Robby Soave makes the case for privatizing the TSA.
Krystal and Saagar look at the views and histories of two neocon pundits now beloved by liberals who decided to resign from Fox News in the wake of a Tucker Carlson documentary about Jan 6th
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the parade incident in Waukesha, Wisconsin that killed five people.
Krystal and Saagar cover the decision by the Biden administration to tap the strategic petroleum reserve and renominate fed chair Jerome Powell to combat inflation
By Peter Wehner, The Atlantic The election of the elders of an evangelical church is usually an uncontroversial, even unifying event. But this summer, at an influential megachurch in Northern Virginia, something went badly wrong. A trio of elders didn’t receive 75 percent of the vote, the threshold […]
By Michael Lind, Tablet How a trash-talking neoliberal economist harmed America by vilifying strategic trade and industrial policy. Strategic trade and national industrial policy are back. Growing U.S. military and economic competition with China, along with the COVID-19 pandemic, have revealed the dependence of the United States on […]
This week, Briahna Joy Gray digs deeper into some broader themes that emerged from the Kyle Rittenhouse discourse. How productive is the “white supremacist” descriptor attached to not just Kyle, but to any number of actors associated with conservative politics? Even if it’s accurate, does a maximalist view […]
In this clip from our full episode, Briahna Joy Grays asks whether the left would respond differently if it were an armed BLM protester under trial. With Olayemi Olurin.
‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ host speaks to Kyle Rittenhouse about his plans for the future.
Kyle Rittenhouse calls on the president to watch his trial and slams the media for spreading ‘disgraceful’ lies about his case on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’
‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ host speaks to Kyle Rittenhouse about the events that led to his homicide trial.
Krystal and Saagar talk about the Waukesha attack, economic news, Obama and Bezos, Andrew Cuomo revelations, Fox News, Ghislaine Maxwell trial, Thanksgiving topics of conversation, how to talk about race, and more! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Briahna’s Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Timestamps: Waukesha: 0:00 – 12:53 SPR/Fed: 12:54 – 26:46 Obama/Bezos: 26:47 […]
Why am I not surprised? “National conservatism” is just neoconservatism reinventing itself with a less Friedmanite economic platform, with a faux Christian Democratic and/or populist presentation instead. And the usual collection of “conservative” dupes are already on board. There’s nothing like 60 years of failure to bolster one’s […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss what Kyle Rittenhouse’s future might look like post-acquittal.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave debate whether Joe Biden will really run for president again in 2024, and if he does, whether he will win.
Staff writer at The Hill, Rafael Bernal, details the ongoing presidential elections in Chile, and implications for the region.
Kim Iversen explains an underreported provision of the Build Back Better budget package.
Team Rising discusses the legal merits behind the verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial.
Robby Soave criticizes the ACLU for their interpretation of the verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial.
Ryan Grim details Wisconsin Republicans’ efforts to expand their power in the state legislature.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to a new report claiming that a seafood vendor at a market in Wuhan, China was the first known case of COVID-19.
Senior fellow at the Political Reform Program at New America, Lee Drutman, details his new report on the popularity and efficacy of ranked choice voting.
Today on What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds more voters say lawmakers in Congress serve more at the direction of their donors and party leaders compared to their constituents. This survey was conducted online within the United States from November 9 – 10
Krystal and Saagar track the central role that a business Hunter Biden has a direct stake in played in China’s chase for the Cobalt necessary for electric car batteries and other crucial products
Krystal scorches the Democratic Party operatives and grifters who are hoping Trump runs again in 2024 to boost the party’s political fortunes and generate large amounts of cash
Krystal and Saagar make sense of the resiliency starting to be seen in US supply chains as concerns mount about whether goods will be available in time for Christmas
Krystal and Saagar are joined by former Amazon worker and now labor organizer Chris Smalls to get an understanding of how the company is fighting unionization at all costs
Krystal and Saagar go through the details of the Ahmaud Arbery case where a black jogger was shot and killed during an attempted citizens arrest in Georgia
Krystal and Saagar cover the most recent reports about how Democratic Party insiders and those on the Biden campaign team have tried to reassure themselves that Biden will run again
Saagar covers how YouTube punished Breaking Points for covering the rape accusation and disappearance of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai and the perverse incentives this creates
Krystal and Saagar clear up the events and laws that factored into the verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial that dominated the headlines and twitter punditry over the past few days
By Molly Fischer, Intelligencer Lately it has seemed possible that everything must change. Basic fixtures of American life, rules and institutions that had come to feel inevitable — in 2020 and 2021, they felt less inevitable than before. They felt perhaps untenable. Things like the cost of health […]
Forget Robin DiAngelo, Ibram X. Kendi, and The 1619 Project. Start with ending the drug war, says the Columbia University linguist. “The people who are calling themselves black people saviors don’t understand this, but they’re hurting black people because what they’re caught up in is more about virtue […]
Now, who does this sound like? Imagine if the Northern Ireland of the 1970s had been populated by 331 million people. “More than 3,600 people died during that conflict, and tens of thousands were injured. Despite the vast majority of Northern Irish people wanting peace, the era came […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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