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Nexus X HumectressWatch daily live coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, faces charges of manslaughter, second-degree murder, and third-degree murder in the death of George Floyd. The trial is expected to last approximately four weeks.
By Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski We’re looking forward to our conversation this Friday with Dan Kovalik, author of Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture. In advance of this conversation, we’re thinking about how the Left will build an unapologetic movement for equality that goes […]
By Matt Taibbi Gaetz, Greenwald, and accusations in the Twitter age. I interviewed friend Glenn Greenwald yesterday about his new book, “Securing Democracy” (review on the way). For those not familiar, that’s the one where Glenn and his husband David Miranda shepherded a major corruption story into print, […]
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Anyone who says inflation isn’t a problem hasn’t tried shopping for a new home recently. Housing costs are skyrocketing. The median sales price of existing homes has spiked 16% over the past 12 months (from $270,400 to $313,000) – the fastest pace […]
By Gentleman Bandit How a dwindling minority of mid-caste teacher’s pets dominate the expert class despite their near-total lack of experience. I’ve written before about the Square University Culture. I don’t mean everybody who attends university — I mean people who are born in comfortable circumstances, advance easily […]
Just in time for the Chauvin trial and the warm weather season! Get ready for the next round. The officer who shot Daunte Wright and the police chief both resigned according to Mayor Mike Elliott.
By James Bovard, The American Conservative Last week, President Joe Biden nominated David Chipman to be head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the premier federal firearms enforcement agency. Biden complemented that announcement with a call for a national red flag law to entitle police […]
Team Rising reacts to Dem pollsters acknowledging major errors in the 2020 election polling.
Fraudci the Spin Doctor. Team Rising discusses the Biden administration’s COVID messaging.
I tend to agree with Michael Lind’s view that not only will the Democrats be the dominant party in the years ahead, but also that the real debates in mainstream politics will be between progressives and neoliberals in the Democratic Party over the issue of to what degree […]
Isn’t that more or less insider trading? Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s latest investments in Roblox.
The prosecution in the trial of Derek Chauvin rested on Tuesday.
Trump had Bill Barr of Ruby Ridge infamy. Now, Biden has this dude from Waco infamy. Saagar Enjeti reacts to Biden’s pick for head of the ATF, David Chipman,
I am opposed to taxes generally, but we need to start by reducing taxes from the bottom up. Some unusually insightful comments about the relationship between corporate profits and infrastructure about 11 minutes in. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss progressive priorities for the infrastructure bill.
Friends and Readers of ATS, I am working with Don Fitz of the Gateway Green Alliance in St. Louis for the zoom program on “Envisioning a Greener New Deal.” We would like to invite all of our supporters to co-sponsor the zoom. The announcement for the program says: […]
It’s interesting that a bunch of Republicans are most aware of all this than much of the so-called Left. The American Conservative’s 5th Annual Crony Capitalism Conference The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was created to be a lifeline to small businesses struggling to stay afloat as the response […]
By Peter R. Quinones “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member” – Groucho Marx When I think about that Groucho quote I wonder if he was a libertarian. Many in the Libertarian Party (LP) can’t comprehend what Dave Smith is doing in […]
But science and medicine are infallible. By Noah Weiland, Sharon LaFraniere and Carl Zimmer, New York Times The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control will stop using the vaccine at federal sites and urge states to do so as well while they examine the safety […]
Alexander Reid-Ross’ understudy turns on his master? Excellent.
By Leila Al-Shami We are no less than the Paris commune workers: they resisted for 70 days and we are still going on for a year and a half.” Omar Aziz, 2012 On 18 March 2021 people around the globe will be commemorating the 150th anniversary of the […]
Wow. Gillis said something reasonable. Broken clock, twice a day. By William Gillis, Center for a Stateless Society If the problem with taxation is the coercion, then surely the priority of any coherent and consistent libertarian reformism on taxes should be to minimize the number of people who […]
By Mike Baker and Evan Hill, New York Times Investigators said that Michael Reinoehl probably opened fire before officers killed him last year. But some key evidence raises questions about that conclusion. SEATTLE — When a U.S. Marshals task force killed a self-described antifa activist in Washington State […]
By Jim Donaghey Robin Ballinger argues that ‘[m]usic is neither transcendental nor trivial, but inhabits a site where hegemonic processes are contested’ (in Sakolsky and Ho (eds.), 1995: 14) – in other words, music matters. However, music (and culture more widely) is often viewed as being of minor […]
A cardiologist at the trial of Derek Chauvin said that the death of George Floyd was “preventable.”
Wright was killed during a traffic stop just miles away from where George Floyd died and where Chauvin is standing trial for his murder. “Nightline” speaks to Wright’s family’s lawyer.
Watch daily live coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, faces charges of manslaughter, second-degree murder, and third-degree murder in the death of George Floyd. The trial is expected to last approximately four weeks.
Former Hawaii Congresswoman says Biden needs to deescalate tensions with Russia.
Multiple people have been shot at a Tennessee high school, including a police officer, Knoxville police said Monday. Austin-East Magnet High School students have been the victims of several other shootings since the beginning of this year.
A U.S. Army officer is suing two Virginia police officers over a violent traffic stop last December. Police body camera video shows the officer in full uniform being approached by the cops with their guns drawn. Christina Ruffini has more.
Police said the officer accidentally discharged a gun instead of a Taser when she killed Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on Sunday. Protests erupted overnight.
Police released the body cam footage from an officer-involved shooting in Minnesota.
-Donald Trump is absolutely irate at a Republican donor event over the weekend, primarily against fellow Republicans, setting up a major showdown in 2022 and 2024
She would make dumbass comments like this back when she was first becoming well-known. Nothing new here. But Kyle’s comments in this segment are on the money.
Water is the new oil.
Ironically, he may be right.
Free Assange, Jail the war criminals!
I suspect Kim is on to something here. This looks like a convenient purge of a prominent Trumpist.
Don’t do drugs, kids…unless you get them from the government.
By Douglas MacGregor, The American Conservative The Biden administration appears willing to get us into a fight we’re not ready for. Conflict with Russia may be inevitable. Kiev’s strident threats to resolve the crisis in Eastern Ukraine with force of arms, combined with Washington’s refusal to acknowledge that […]
By Matt Taibbi The press is building an image of a “radical” progressive hero, while reality looks like the same corporate Democrat. On April Fool’s Day, CNN ran an “analysis” of Joe Biden’s presidency: Will JRB take his place alongside FDR and LBJ? CNN explained that “JRB” had […]
By E. Colin Ruggero Resistance Studies Magazine We are glad to present articles that demonstrate the multifaceted area of resistance studies. MikeMowbray discusses the online presentation and discussion of 2008 Greek riots as virtual spaces of opposition to mainstream account. James M. Statman looks at the psycho-political meaning of […]
By Peter R. Quinones It happened again. I’ve never been around a diagnosed schizophrenic, but it may sound a bit like the following. Heard someone perfectly describe the “Woke-Left” (WL) in all their lunacy, explaining they can’t be reasoned with and they are dangerous to liberty; only to […]
By Klaus Boldt, TELOS Welt am Sonntag: Mr. Reitzle, the corona crisis robbed many Germans of their illusions about this republic. They don’t recognize their country anymore. They used to think of it as progressive, organized, digitalized, and well led. Was that image of modern Germany just a […]
By Russell A. Berman, TELOS Wolfgang Reitzle is one of Germany’s premiere business executives, and Klaus Boldt, part of the editorial leadership of Die Welt, one of the foremost business journalists. The wide-ranging interview here points to the multiple dimensions of the problems facing Germany at the end […]
By Clint Siegner, Money Metals Exchange William Watts with MarketWatch sees the “biggest Inflation scare in 40 years” on its way. He expects massive amounts of stimulus coupled with a boom associated with easing COVID restrictions to generate a surge in prices like the nation hasn’t seen since […]
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson, and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the question of the Decline of US Imperial power abroad.
Fiscal hawks have been sounding the alarm about rising debt levels for decades, but their nightmare scenario of runaway inflation hasn’t come to pass. How do we know if this time is different?
Reason.com senior editor, Robby Soave, discusses the pros and cons of vaccine passports.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss President Biden’s Pentagon budget compared to Trump’s.
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, discusses journalists leaving Substack due to transphobic content.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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