Source: Antiwar.com
by M Reza Behnam

“Strip away the diplomatic briefings, Congressional hearings and the endless cable news loops about centrifuges, regional proxies and cyber attacks, and you hit a raw unvarnished nerve. What truly disturbs the United States about the Islamic Republic is not its policies, its rhetoric or even its nuclear ambitions. It is Iran’s audacity to exist completely outside the American orbit; and make it work.” (08/26/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/reza_behnam/2026/08/25/why-iran-ruffles-the-feathers-of-the-united-states

Source: American Greatness
by Sasha Gong

“Can communism come to America? Until recently, most Americans would have dismissed the question as alarmist, even absurd. The United States has enjoyed constitutional government for nearly 250 years. Its citizens are accustomed to elections, private property, free speech, independent courts, and a press that openly challenges those in power. Surely, many assume, a people raised in freedom would never tolerate dictatorship. The rapid rise of Democratic Socialism has made the question less theoretical. The movement draws strength from the same seductive promise that has accompanied every socialist and communist experiment: government can eliminate inequality by taking greater control over economic life and redistributing wealth more justly. Anyone with even limited knowledge of communist history knows what follows. Equality is promised, but scarcity is delivered. The old upper class is denounced, but a new political class emerges with privileges unavailable to ordinary citizens.” (08/26/26)

https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/26/hong-kong-shows-how-a-free-society-can-become-a-dictatorship/

Source: Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

“The average voter, from personal experience or attempted avoidance thereof, is probably aware that excessive debt is bad, but he or she may be less clear about its deleterious national economic consequences. Even less obvious are the national security ramifications.” (08/25/26)

https://www.independent.org/article/2026/08/25/exorbitant-and-rising-debt-is-a-national-security-threat/

Source: Liberal Currents
by Nicholas Grossman

“The president’s choices at home and abroad are boosting Democrats’ chances in November.” (08/26/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-trump-trainwreck/

Source: Los Angeles Times
by Erwin Chemerinsky

“The Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday allowing President Trump’s executive order on mail voting to go forward is stunningly insensitive to the context: Trump is trying to exercise control over elections when he has absolutely no authority to do so. In one sense, the justices decided nothing, simply saying it was too soon for federal courts to get involved. But in a more important way, the court could have and should have put an emphatic end to the president’s efforts to try to regulate voting operations that are legally the domain of state governments.” (08/25/26)

https://archive.is/JEKQl

Source: The Dispatch
by Jonah Goldberg

“Not all concerns about data centers are so crazy or even unreasonable. They do use a lot of water, though not nearly as much as some claim. They can cause electricity rates to go up. They’re ugly. And, if you’re freaking out about what AI will do to your job or to American society, taking it out on data centers makes a certain amount of sense. Politicians, as a class, tend to indulge moral panics. Which is why it’s no surprise that Republicans and Democrats alike are racing to get on the ‘right’ side of the issue.” (08/26/26)

https://thedispatch.com/article/data-centers-artificial-intelligence-moral-panic/