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Nexus X HumectressRyan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to reporting that the ISIS-K bomber who killed 13 Americans at the Kabul airport in August was released from prison at Bagram Air Base only 11 days before the attack.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to the resignation of a Yale professor over what she considers the inappropriate appointment of Henry Kissinger’s to a university advisory board.
Founder of The Daily Poster, David Sirota, breaks down the latest developments in the Sackler family’s attempts to avoid penalty for their role in the opioid crisis.
Team Rising discusses new reporting that in response to labor shortages, U.S. employers are more open to hiring convicted felons.
UAW and UAWD member Scott Houldieson breaks down a new referendum that could dramatically change the way the union chooses its leadership.
Team Rising reacts to the NLRB’s latest ruling on college athletes.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave break down the ethics scandal plaguing several of New York City’s anti-homelessness organizations and shelters.
What I found the most interesting about this was the degree to which the “old money” industrial bourgeoisie WASP elites are being integrated with the “newly rich” and “rainbowized” digital capitalist class. By Max DeNike, Family Minded America’s richest families are taking the whole idea of “born with a […]
Banned Hipster Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. — H. L. Mencken It’s a fantasy for right-wing white males. It’s a specifically male thing, because males like violence, and violence seems simple. The […]
What a lot of people still don’t realize is that during the past 40 years, the US has gradually moved toward a “Third World” (traditional) model of political economy with traditional levels of disparities between social classes. The period between the 1950s and the 1980s was a historical […]
By Matt Taibbi “The jab” is just the latest story to be reported as mantra Yesterday, I ran a story that had nothing to do with vaccines, about the seeming delay of the development of a drug called molnupiravir (see the above segment with the gracious hosts of […]
By Ivan Pentchoukov Epoch Times A federal judge in Austin, Texas, granted a temporary injunction on Oct. 6 against the Texas anti-abortion law that drew national attention after it recently survived judicial scrutiny by the Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman, an Obama appointee, opined that “a person’s […]
By Zachary Stieber Epoch Times A hospital in Colorado rejected a woman for a kidney transplant after she refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine, officials have confirmed. Leilani Lutali received a letter on Sept. 28 informing her that the transplant team at the University of Colorado Hospital decided […]
By Damon Linker, The Week How could we make the outage permanent? For a few hours on Monday, billions of people across the globe experienced something extraordinary: They got a taste of a world without social media. Well, not all of social media. Twitter was still there, and […]
By Samuel Goldman, The Week What do you call it when enraged citizens surround a public official walking to his hotel? Or follow her into the bathroom brandishing video cameras? Or chant slogans outside his house? Or disrupt official proceedings and heckle speakers? Your answer may have a lot to do […]
By Ronald L. Daniels, The Atlantic Institutions of higher education have remained, at best, bit players in the project of educating the citizenry. About the author: Ronald J. Daniels is president of Johns Hopkins University and author of the forthcoming book What Universities Owe Democracy. I was born […]
This author inadvertently explains why conventional “federalism” or “states’ rights” are not sufficient, and why a more radical approach is needed. By Karol Markowicz New York Post Is it time for a national divorce? The idea has understandably gained steam — though it can’t possibly work and shouldn’t. […]
By David Reaboi The National Divorce discussion prepares the ground for crucial thinking about what comes next in America, as the country grows even more divided, bitter, and angry. For the last several years, I’ve been among a handful of commentators (along with good friends Michael Malice, Jesse […]
W. James Antle III, The Week Citing irreconcilable differences, many commentators on both sides of the red-blue divide have begun channeling country singer Tammy Wynette and contemplating a national divorce. The sentiment appears strongest on the right. Claremont Institute fellow David Reaboi warns of a future in which “the […]
By PEDRO GARCIA GUIRAO Available for the first time in English: “The thesis that John Brademas wrote in Oxford in 1953 was entitled ‘Revolution and social revolution: a contribution to the history of the anarcho-syndicalist movement in Spain, 1930-1937’ and it was overseen by Gerald Brenan and Raymond […]
By Chris Hedges, Consortium News Judge Loretta Preska, an adviser to the conservative Federalist Society, to which Chevron is a major donor, sentenced human rights attorney and Chevron nemesis Steven Donziger to six months in prison Friday for misdemeanor contempt of court after he had already spent 787 […]
By Billy Binion, Reason On a chilly December evening in 2017, a group of Wichita cops surrounded a modest house on West McCormick Street. They were there in response to what was purportedly a gruesome hostage situation: a father shot dead, a mother in danger, and a son […]
Andrew Yang, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and author of Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy, joins The Realignment to discuss the Forward Party and why he thinks open party primaries and ranked choice voting are the keys to ending political gridlock in Washington.
Anarchist News If revolution is permanent in the sense that its “final” form is already anticipated in its initial outlines, it also must be permanent in the sense that it is never completed, always relative, and that in it victory and failure are one. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Adventures of […]
Anarchist News Inspired by an anews thread that included a “you’re a leftist,” “no, you’re a leftist” back-and-forth, let’s talk about anarchists using terms like Left and Right, even as derogatory terms. These are boxes, part of a model, that has never helped us, and now is so […]
The WaPo’s house neocon Jennifer Rubin calls for neocons to recolonize the Democratic Party from where they came, which is what neocons like Bill Kristol, the Kagans, John Bolton, and George Will are now doing. By Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post Matthew Dowd, a former Republican adviser to George […]
Krystal and Saagar are joined by socialist mayoral candidate in Buffalo India Walton to understand how she won the Democratic primary and what lessons her campaign should teach the woke left
Krystal provides details on the massive labor strike wave taking place around the country that is getting completely ignored by mainstream media outlets
Krystal and Saagar review the Biden administration’s decision to resume funding the same type of gain of function research that was at the heart of the Wuhan lab leak of the coronavirus
Krystal and Saagar cover Jon Stewart’s return to television with a confrontational interview of Biden’s VA secretary for holding up benefits needed by veterans victimized by burn pits
Krystal and Saagar look at the newest polling showing Biden’s approval rating decreasing to catastrophic levels which could spell doom for Democrats in the midterms
Krystal and Saagar provide updates on the looming debt ceiling crisis now that big business CEOs have gotten involved in the stalling negotiations between McConnell and congressional Dems
Krystal and Saagar break down newly released studies showing that the Havana Syndrome is caused by crickets, despite the MSNBC and Deep State claims of Russian microwaves being the culprit
Saagar uncovers the details of Biden’s China policy that show the administration caving to China and big business at the expense of the trade war started by Trump
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll shows that almost three in four voters believe COVID-related ordinances, such as mask and vaccine mandates, are effective. This survey was conducted online within the United States from September 30 – October 1 among 948 registered voters by HarrisX. […]
The System is obviously trying to manufacture a new cold war with China now that Russophobia hasn’t sold very well in spite of years of constant propaganda. Kim’s commentary in this segment is excellent. I tend to agree with her that the System is trying to weaponize the […]
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss AT&T’s major role in the news media market.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Emily Jashinsky react to a Twitch hack that revealed just how much money the platform’s top streamers are making.
Co-host of Useful Idiots podcast, Matt Taibbi, details Merck’s new ‘miracle’ COVID-19 treatment, and why its rollout was delayed.
Team Rising discusses former President Trump’s upcoming trip to Iowa, and what the GOP’s 2024 presidential ticket might look like.
Mark Metz is the proprietor of The Emergent at MarkMetz.Substack.com, and Adam Patrick is the host of Yer Talkin Over Me. Adam and Mark join Pete to talk about Mises-style liberalism and whether it opens the door for totalitarianism. They also talk about whether family and culture is […]
Emily Jashinsky explains how the culture war and extreme wokeness have affected doctors’ “life and death” decisions.
Ryan Grim breaks down the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for attorney Jonathan Kanter, who’s been nominated to be Assistant Attorney General tor the Antitrust Division at the Department Of Justice.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to leaked emails between Senators Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders’ staff.
This article is from January when Biden was first taking over, but it’s important because it debunks the “Trump as libertarian and/or limited government conservative” narrative that is sometimes offered as a Trumpist talking point. By Thomas L. Knapp, Reno Gazette This opinion column was submitted by Thomas […]
Krystal and Saagar discuss the looming debt crisis facing the federal government, Biden’s approval sinking, gain of function research starting again, the real cause of Havana Syndrome, Jon Stewart’s return to TV, worker activity this month, worker strikes across the country, Biden caving to China, a conversation with […]
In this slightly different episode of Us As We Are, we have an anonymous sit down interview with two of Ashland’s progressive activists, known to themselves as the “Anti-Conspiritualists.” In this interview, we discuss the growing Anti-Mask sentiment in the Ashland area, made up of an archetype of […]
By Hanzi Freinacht Meta Moderna It’s difficult to be playful around fascism. It arose in shaky times, gathered absolute power in the hands of fanatic psychopaths who not only oppressed their own populations but also got us the Second World War and the Holocaust. To this day, we […]
It’s been a century since Edward Bernays wrote his seminal “Propaganda,” unveiling a PR industry that had previously operated only behind the scenes and triggering its growth into an industrial behemoth that now reaches the far corners of the earth. Wars are fought on the level of “hearts […]
My personal views are not so much “pro-democracy” as much as “pro-anti-authoritarianism.” However, “anti-authoritarianism” means different things to different people. Some people prioritize different kinds of anti-authoritarianism over others, which is why we also need pan-decentralism and free federation. Some people value the right to possess firearms over […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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