A bipartisan group in Congress has introduced legislation that would give TikTok’s China-based parent firm just six months to divest from the social media giant
by Will Porter | Mar 6, 2024 | News
A bipartisan group in Congress has introduced legislation that would give TikTok’s China-based parent firm just six months to divest from the social media giant
by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 6, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
On February 24, Chaya Raichik, creator of the famous social media brand “Libs of Tiktok,” granted an interview to her nemesis, Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz. The clash was not the first between the two; in April 2022, Lorenz published an expose doxxing...
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 5, 2024 | News
A few days after US and Haitian diplomats discussed sending US special forces to Haiti to help Prime Minister Ariel Henry regain control over the capital city, a White House official dismissed the idea of deploying soldiers to the Caribbean nation. According to...
by Will Porter | Feb 24, 2024 | News
The planned expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is “inconsistent” with international law, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, potentially signaling a policy shift for Washington.
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Feb 22, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
Of all the government or quasi-government institutions, there is perhaps none as openly opaque in its operations and unaccountable for its failures as the Federal Reserve. For, unlike its top rivals for this most dubious of distinctions, like the CIA, NSA, or DOD,...
by Scott Horton and Jeremy R. Hammond | Feb 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since the horrific atrocities perpetrated by Hamas against Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023, Israel has been engaged in a devastating military operation in the Gaza Strip. Over 25,000 Palestinians have been killed, 70% of whom have been women and children, and...
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 15, 2024 | News Roundup
Assange ‘Drop the Charges,’ Says Amnesty Ahead of Key Julian Assange Hearing AWC Australian Parliament Votes ‘Overwhelmingly’ to Call for Assange’s Freedom Cradle Ukraine House Intel Chair Accused of Disclosing National Security ‘Threat’ to Get Ukraine Aid Passed AWC...
by James W. Carden | Feb 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
During Mr. Obama’s second term in office (2013-2017), it had become clear that the terms of the public policy debate were undergoing a radical and worrying transformation. In the space of a very short time, certain ideas and policy proposals were being ruled as out of...
The Iraq War didn’t just “happen” it was sold with a storyline, staffed by specific operators, and justified by a strategy that had been circulating for years. I’m joined by Scott Horton of the Libertarian Institute to unpack the Clean Break doctrine, what it tried to...
Trump says he wants a deal with Iran. Netanyahu hints the real goal is regime change anyway. That contradiction is where diplomacy goes to die, and it is also where Americans get dragged into a war they did not vote for. We roll solo and ask the blunt question a lot...
It turns out wearing the glasses made no difference. In the John Carpenter film, They Live, our hero John Nada is one in many workers stumbling from hunger to poverty and piece work in an economy that is only built to exploit them. It’s a film both critical of Reagan...
Trump didn’t just get “frustrated” with Netanyahu. He confirmed he told him, “Are you effing crazy,” and that single moment raises a bigger question: if the White House is truly fed up, why does the region still look like it’s sliding toward wider war? Jim Webb joins...
I spent a lot of time dealing with the victim of violence. That betrayal only a lover can express, the sinister switch from affection or at least the performance required to invent love, to twist into a tantrum of rage. The bruising and cuts, a secondary blistering to...
A deal with Iran sounds simple until you read the fine print. We dig into the reports of a memorandum of understanding that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and lift parts of the pressure campaign, then ask the uncomfortable question: is this “freedom of navigation,”...
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