As someone who supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 election and thought he would be a better candidate for president than Hillary Clinton, I had to face reality when he was resoundingly thumped in the Democratic primary. Sanders lost to Clinton fair and square, and I ...read more
Young Turks journalist David Sirota is known for stirring division within the Democratic Party. Throughout 2015 and 2016, he dedicated most of his reporting to attacking Hillary Clinton while showering Bernie Sanders with praise, despite receiving criticism for failing to ...read more
Last summer, after attempting to sue us with a fake lawyer (which she still denies doing), Caitlin Johnstone published a series of articles that caused a firestorm on the far left. In them, she argued that the left needed to ally with alt-right figurehead Mike Cernovich to take ...read more
When it was first adopted at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, the Unity Reform Commission sounded like a good idea. The primary had been one of the most contentious in history, with the Sanders side accusing the Clintonites of benefiting from party support, and Hillary ...read more
When the Banter's Jeremy Fassler informed me this morning that Cenk Uygur had gone after us (again) on his show, I shuddered a little. Not because I was worried about The Young Turks blistering "take down" of our site, and not because of the rampaging 'TYT Army' waiting in the ...read more
Recently, Teen Vogue continued its tradition of not treating America's youth like fragile spun glass and published the following article.. To continue reading this article, please go here. A Banter Membership gets you access to the magazine and all our Members Only content. Your ...read more
One of the biggest struggles those concerned with the state of politics in this country have is figuring out where exactly to direct their anger, and where to direct their energy. If you take some time to survey the left in America, you'll see quite a wide range of opinions on ...read more
The Young Turks' Michael Tracey has a...dubious history with women, at best. As a college student, he sued police for "excessive force" when they arrested him for bypassing security to get an autograph from Ann Coulter (probably the only time in history this has ever happened.) ...read more
Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks is mad, mad, I tell you, that the wicked Democratic establishment and corporate media keeps pointing out that the hard left's purity tests are a problem. Purity tests? What purity tests?! I am told by the establishment Democrats and their friends in ...read more
To wind down my lengthy and exclusive interview with The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur, I thought I'd give him a chance to respond to some of the fairly harsh criticism he takes around these parts, both from the writers and in the comments. Since he's not here when those critiques ...read more
At the tail end of Tuesday night's New York primary, I dipped into The Young Turks' live coverage to see how my pal Cenk was handling things. Not that I ever doubted it for a second, but he was facing the reality that's sinking in for a lot of Bernie Sanders supporters, and so ...read more
Cenk Uygur is an asshole. Really, there's no better way to describe him. You could get more specific, stating without fear of contradiction that he's a self-important loudmouth and a bloviating bully utterly lacking in any awareness of how full-of-shit he is, but honestly it's ...read more
Let me first say that Cenk Uygur is a good friend of mine. Before I got into journalism, I was just another Young Turks fan who listened to the show every day while I toiled away as a health insurance consultant. It's a long story, but he was also instrumental in my transition ...read more
The level of dishonesty to which some critics of Bill Maher, Sam Harris, and other atheists critical of Islam have stooped wouldn’t be so discouraging were it not for the eagerness with which the deceit is received and proliferated. There is no shortage of examples, especially ...read more
As we've reported before, there appears to be a coordinated and dangerous effort on the libertarian left to anoint hackers as digital superheroes. A group of activist bloggers circulating around and including Glenn Greenwald, who once referred to hackers as "young online ...read more
This afternoon, the following tweet appeared in my timeline: Naturally, I thought for sure this was regarding another Glenn Greenwald screed based on an Edward Snowden PowerPoint slide, and so I hunkered down for another mind-numbingly long and hyperbolic read about the ...read more