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Nexus X HumectressBy Andrew Prokop The report from the firm Catalist looks at what changed since 2016, but also at the parties’ coalitions overall. In the days and weeks after presidential election results come in, commentators attempting to figure out what happened with voter demographics are often in a fog […]
I suspect free college will happen eventually for three reasons. As more and more jobs require college degrees, a college education will eventually come to have the same status as public school education, a necessary public utility that is provided by the government. Colleges are also big businesses […]
By Lorenza Stradiotti A contribution to histories of women in the interwar transnational antifascist movement, particularly radical exiles, we focus on VirgiliaD’Andrea, a noted Italian anarchist exile from fascist Italy who spent her final exile in New York, 1928–33. An intellectual, writer-poet, and orator belonging to a small […]
She’s crazy, but I don’t necessarily disagree with her on this. I think the decision concerning what public monuments to have should be made by the people who actually live in a community and pay for the upkeep of the community. But the wave of statuephobia we have […]
The most immediately obvious problem with this analysis is that it ignores the rise in the expected threshold of subsistence during the time period that is being discussed. Politicians and the media are telling bogus stories about falling fertility rates, rising inequality, and supposed lack of economic mobility. […]
I agree with his emphasis on Palestinian issues. Most of the rest of this is fairly predictable.
A pretty good explanation of the backstory.
Growing criticism of big-city progressive D.A.s George Gascón and Chesa Boudin underscores the importance of distinguishing necessary reform from simply failing to enforce the rule of law. In 1960, the U.S. violent crime rate started rising, and for three decades this was one of the most vexing and […]
Good job, Abby. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Georgia’s anti-BDS law being deemed unconstitutional.
As I said, they’re getting desperate. Krystal Ball reacts to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow attacking Attorney General Merrick Garland.
They’re apparently getting desperate. Team Rising reacts to reports that MSNBC anchor, Nicolle Wallace, is in talks with the streaming platform, Peacock, about a new show.
Thanks to the Internet, everyone is going to the independent media, which is why the censors are trying to tighten the grip. Team Rising discusses CNN’s struggle to maintain viewers in the post-Trump era.
Saagar Enjeti reacts to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos purchasing MGM for $8.45 billion.
It will be interesting to see what their next project is. Their program was highly unique.
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By Morris Brodie This article examines the function of anarchist periodicals in the United States during the Great Depression. Periodicals acted as forums for debate, where ideas were constantly challenged and important theoretical issues were aired. This was both within anarchism and between the wider radical movement. In […]
Amazon has introduced the ‘Ama-Zen’, a wellness isolation box for employees to distract from the fact that they just busted a unionization effort in Alabama.
By Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic The journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones appears to be a victim of viewpoint discrimination. Academic freedom needs a vigorous defense—and not just at UNC. Last week, the journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, who led The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project, was named the Knight Chair in […]
Crimethinc In this anonymous submission, participants in the uprising in Minneapolis in response to the murder of George Floyd explore how a combination of different tactics compelled the police to abandon the Third Precinct. The following analysis is motivated by a discussion that took place in front of […]
By Sara Fischer, Danielle Alberti , Axios Americans are leaning into companies that have strong political positions, in the wake of one of the country’s most divisive election years. Driving the news: New rankings from the Axios/Harris 100 poll — an annual survey to gauge the reputation of the […]
By Patrick Tomassi, Plough “What’d you see?” a man shouted. Around him, a crowd of black-clad activists gathered outside the Multnomah County Democrats building in northeast Portland, Oregon, the Sunday night after the US presidential election in November 2020. “You didn’t see shit!” the protesters chanted in response. […]
Dr Philip Kiszely has lectured at the University of Leeds for the last 15 years. Philip has been outspoken on identity politics, critical race theory and the activist impulse in the media and institutions. In this episode he talks about his father, who escaped communism in Hungary after […]
Many North Korean defectors who have managed to escape by traveling through China think of their secretive home country as a haunting place. Five particular spots within North Korea stand out to those who know about them for their propagandist nature and strange history…
By Peter Van Buren, The American Conservative Reporters joke that the easiest job in Washington is CIA spokesman. You need only listen carefully to questions, say, “No comment,” and head to happy hour. The joke, however, is on us. The reporters pretend to see only one side of […]
By Douglas McGregor, The American Conservative If the U.S. Armed Forces are compelled to internalize the Biden administration’s ideology, they will cease to be a national military establishment. The Biden administration took Americans on the right by surprise. In the opening weeks of the new administration, very few […]
By Rod Dreher, The American Conservative Well, well, well: The Pentagon official tasked with leading efforts to crack down on extremist views among military servicemembers once asserted that backers of former President Donald Trump were also supporters of racism, misogyny and extremism. The official, Bishop Garrison, is a […]
By Doug Bandow, The American Conservative The upcoming summit between Biden and Putin is an opportunity for productive conversation and a little less conflict. Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin are planning to meet in Switzerland next month. It obviously is better to have the two talking rather […]
By Matt Taibbi If you haven’t heard about the “transformational presidency” for a few weeks, it’s because the White House is selling something else at the moment. Joe Biden is cruising, in a happy-place few politicians reach. Outside of a few grumpy right-wing outlets he faces almost no […]
Ben appeared on Majority Report to argue with Sam and Emma about cancel culure and promote his new book.
Fragment, fragment, fragment…and we need the Right and the Center to do the same. Vaush explains how initially his main goal was lefty unity however recently he has discovered that it’s a pipedream. He also talks about how we must criticize and hold to account certain beliefs that […]
By David Lauter,Los Angeles Times Anyone who has watched U.S. politics in recent years knows that a widening gap between left and right, Democrat and Republican, has defined our era. Hardly a week passes without fresh evidence. Americans — and some Europeans — have often talked of similar divisions […]
Team Rising reacts to research that reveals QAnon chatter has decreased on social media platforms.
A debate between Richard Hanania and Peter Zeihan on the future of China would be interesting. Zeihan would argue that Hanania is overestimating China’s stability and geopolitical viability. President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, Richard Hanania, explains the two mistakes he says people […]
Team Rising discusses a new Reuters/ IPSOS poll which asked who Republicans prefer as the role model for future GOP candidates.
Class divisions are the widest they have been since the Great Depression. But tribal/sectarian divisions are the widest they have been since the Civil War. Existential issues trump class politics. Among the Red Tribe, there is an audience for “national-conservatism,” “national-populism,” etc. Among the Blue Tribe, there is […]
The Russiagate of the Right. Saagar Enjeti explains why “Stop The Steal’ is so damaging to the future of the GOP.
Housing and homelessness may well replace labor conflict as the basis of “class struggle” in the future. Krystal Ball analyzes the housing market crisis and how it only benefits Wall Street.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the Biden administration’s growing interest in the “lab leak theory” and the media’s coverage of it.
Jewish Israeli Anthropologist Jeffrey Halper states a fact that is so undeniable, it’s hard to believe that Israel apologists (including Deborah Messing) are denying it: “Israel was founded through ethnic cleansing.” Even Right Wing Israeli Zionists admit that. They just defend it! Yet somehow it’s acceptable for people […]
Anti-Israel sentiments seem to be becoming more commonplace on both the left and right. By Paul Brian, The American Conservative Egypt’s recent brokering of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas comes as the devastation of the most recent 11 days of war stacks up: 253 Palestinians dead according […]
A Marxist critiques Marx.
In the remote Ohio town of East Jackson, which sits in the Appalachian foothills, residents have for decades identified as black – despite the fact they appear white. Tom Silverstone and Francisco Navas visit a place where residents’ racial lines have been blurred to invisibility.
Of course. Big Tech and the Media represent the left-wing of the capitalist class just as the fossil fuel and Big Ag represent the right-wing of the capitalist class. By Tim Pearce, Daily Wire Comedian Russell Brand ripped into the Democratic Party and accused it of colluding with […]
By Ted Rall, Counterpunch Your opinion doesn’t matter—not by itself. No matter how heartfelt or important to you personally, your thoughts about Gaza or legal weed or the war on skinny jeans don’t mean anything merely because they reside inside your brain. Your opinion matters only if you […]
By Robert Graham This article discusses the different forms of organization utilized by anarchists within various anarchist movements from their beginnings in the 1860s until the present day. Despite the claims of some contemporary anarchists that horizontal network forms of organization are a recent development that distinguish contemporary […]
This looks to be an interesting book. The science of climate change has to stand on its own, whatever the findings or ideological implications, assuming it’s actual science (based on sound scientific methodology). But I find the “anti-climate change” movement to be problematic. Much of it seems to […]
Israel and Saudi Arabia are state-guaranteed export markets for US arms manufacturers that are underwritten by US taxpayers. Fiscal conservatives and tax-cutters, where are you? By Thomas L. Knapp, Garrison Center On May 5, Hamas commander Mohammed Deif issued a warning to Israel’s government: Unless Israeli police and […]
By Claes G. Ryn, The American Conservative Reactions to globalization, the Trump presidency, and the coronavirus pandemic have turned discussions of American conservatism increasingly into discussions of “nationalism.” Regrettably, terminological confusion is rampant. Both “conservatism” and “nationalism” are words of many and even contradictory meanings. The strengths of […]
By Damian Carrington, The Guardian The massive melting of glaciers as a result of global heating has caused marked shifts in the Earth’s axis of rotation since the 1990s, research has shown. It demonstrates the profound impact humans are having on the planet, scientists said. The planet’s geographic […]
Notice that it is primarily the governments of red states and corporations that represent the right-wing of the ruling class (e.g. fossil fuels) that are behind this. This is the right’s counteroffensive to the growing hegemony of “woke capitalism.” Fragmentation within the capitalist class itself is growing, although […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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