Kyle Kulinski Speaks, the Bernie Bros Listen
He introduced Bernie to Joe Rogan. His show Secular Talk dominates YouTube. He even helped get AOC elected. So why doesn’t the media know who Kyle Kulinski is?
19274 Articles by: Frantz Durupt
Frantz Durupt is a journalist at French daily Libération.
Bernie’s Democratic Socialism Is Firmly Within the American Tradition
The Bernie Sanders campaign is nothing less than the promise to fulfill a thwarted but long-cherished American dream: a society where the wealthy and powerful no longer dominate our lives.
We Can’t Let Labour Return to the Pre-Corbyn Wilderness
As votes are counted in the Labour leadership election, the party faces a dangerous period: Keir Starmer, the favorite to win, is likely to try to drag the party back to the dark ages of top-down politics and centrist equivocating.
Black Voters Know Better Than the Pundits
The Root’s laughable rankings of the Democratic candidates on their approach to black issues — assembled by an anonymous panel of experts — show just how out of touch many pundits are with the actually existing black electorate.
Bernie Sanders Has the Momentum
Bernie Sanders has won three out of the first four primary contests. He has the momentum going into Super Tuesday tomorrow — not Joe Biden.
Elizabeth Warren Isn’t a “Unity Candidate”
Elizabeth Warren’s right-flank supporters have fled her camp. Today, her major role in this primary is to hold on to a base that would support Bernie Sanders, disproportionately hurting him and benefiting Biden and Bloomberg.
Pete Buttigieg’s Favorite Author Despises People Like Him
Pete Buttigieg learned Norwegian so he could read Erlend Loe, whose novels used to voice the feelings of young liberals who don’t have to deal with any real problems. But more recently, Loe’s work has become sharply political — viciously lampooning know-it-all elitists like Buttigieg.
The Bernie Sanders Campaign Is About Freedom
Though commentators like David Brooks see the rise of an authoritarian left, Bernie Sanders’s message is that formal rights are essential — but they’re insufficient if most people are denied the resources necessary for their realization.
Pete Buttigieg Took One for the Anti-Bernie Team
Pete Buttigieg has always been a calculating careerist. By ending his campaign yesterday, he may have sacrificed his short-term presidential ambitions — but he did so for the greater good of a Democratic Party establishment that is hell-bent on sabotaging Bernie Sanders.
Stopping Berlin’s Rent Madness
After three decades of dramatic increases in the cost of living, last month, Berlin’s city government passed a five-year rent freeze. Grassroots campaigns have changed the conversation about rent — and now they’re fighting to break the market’s control over housing.
Australian Labor and the “Color Line”
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Australian labor movement was considered the most successful in the world, but notions of “White Australia” have always haunted and undermined its internationalism.
Regrouping the Bolivian Left
Bolivia is still reeling from the coup that unseated Evo Morales last November. Amid repression and intimidation from a fortified Right now in power, the Left is preparing itself for new presidential elections.
In South Africa and Around the World, We Have to Resist the Scapegoating of Immigrants
In South Africa, the political class is scapegoating immigrants to distract from their failure to root out the country’s massive inequality. But just like everywhere else, immigrants aren’t the problem — economic elites and their political handmaidens are.
Tech Companies Are Helping Bosses Monitor Everything You Do at Work
Microchips, mobile spyware, and perpetual monitoring are all part of capital’s fantasy of twenty-first-century scientific management — a future in which our movements, impulses, and rhythms are perfectly adapted to the needs of profit-making. We need to fight back and regain our autonomy at work.
A Battle for India’s Soul
India’s student movement is one of the main forces challenging the government of Narendra Modi. But the movement against Hindu nationalism needs to take root even deeper in civil society.
The Liberal-Conservative-Socialist Case for Bernie Sanders
Liberalism has become decadent, and conservatism has become particularly vile. The only option for anyone who cares about freedom and decency is to get behind the socialist.
Yes, the Candidate With the Most Delegates Should Be the Nominee
It’s really very simple: the presidential candidate with the most delegates heading into the Democratic National Convention should be the nominee. There’s no good counterargument.
Joe Biden Has a Long History of Giving Republicans Exactly What They Want
For Republicans, Joe Biden has long been the ideal negotiating partner — because he’s so willing to cave in on most anything Republicans want.
Judging Mubarak
The Egyptian legal system might have acquitted the late Hosni Mubarak of ordering a brutal clampdown on protesters. The verdict of history won’t be so kind.
When Coronavirus Made Italy Go Insane
Empty supermarket shelves and the spread of designer-brand face masks show that Italians are panicking about coronavirus. The spread of the virus demands a planned and coherent response — but the politics of fear are instead turning Italians against each other.