Source: Brennan Center for Justice
by Michael Waldman

“I’ve written that corruption is the sleeper issue of 2026. Well, it’s awake. And the issue may be bigger than I realized. That’s the implication of a new national poll released Tuesday by the Brennan Center. The survey was conducted in late April and early May, just before the president’s attempt to create a $1.8 billion slush fund to funnel taxpayer money to his political allies. The results are striking. More than 9 in 10 voters believe corruption is a big problem across politics and government. Large majorities view corruption as endemic and deeply embedded in government institutions, from the Supreme Court to Congress to the presidency. They are dejected about the fact that scandals continuously go without consequences and shocking revelations fail to produce reform. Margins are overwhelming among Democrats, Republicans, and independents.” (06/03/26)

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/americans-are-furious-about-corruption

Source: Show-Me Institute
by David Stokes

“Google just announced plans to build a $15 billion data center in Montgomery County, in east–central Missouri. It remains to be seen how much of that investment will be reflected in property tax totals, but since the largest expense is going to be for the very expensive equipment in the data center itself — and that equipment is taxable — we can safely assume the assessed valuation of the final project will be enormous and almost certainly measured in the billions. This for a county that had an entire assessed valuation in 2025 of $315 million. Again, that’s every farm, house, car, tractor, building, boat, and cow in the county. … What do you think happens when you add huge assessed valuations from businesses that don’t add much to the public service requirements? The answer should be tax cuts, which is exactly what happened in Loudon County, Virginia.” (06/03/26)

https://showmeinstitute.org/article/corporate-welfare/data-centers-can-bring-their-own-tax-cuts/

Source: Law & Liberty
by Theodore Dalrymple

“The public does not need psychiatrists to tell them who is fit for office.” (06/04/26)

https://lawliberty.org/the-politics-of-pathology/

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Matt Wolfson

“In a speech delivered in the autumn of 2002, as the United States moved inexorably toward war with Iraq, the late Joan Didion delivered an offhand remark that effectively summed up the flaw at the heart of the logic behind that coming war, and of the logic of a number of wars before it, and of a number of wars to come. Referring to ‘the ‘war on terror’ that the President had declared’ of which the operation against Iraq was the centerpiece, Didion added a parenthetical critique: ‘… as if terror were a state and not a technique.’ Twenty-three and a half years later, we live in the detritus of a general lack of understanding of precisely that point.” (06/03/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/terror-as-technique-in-american-policymaking

Source: Liberal Currents
by Guillaume AW Attia

“Just as in a previous age of colonialism, today’s neo-imperialists justify themselves in terms of ‘uplifting’ inferior foreign peoples.” (06/03/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/return-of-the-white-mans-burden/