Does Mamdani dare disavow his openly anti-American DSA comrades?

Source: New York Post
by staff

“Kudos to the State Department for putting the kibosh on city International Affairs Commissioner Ana María Archila’s bid to meet with Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, even as America and Iran are at war — but the affair poses a challenge to Mayor Zohran Mamdani: Does he have the grit to break with the openly anti-American factions of the Democratic Socialists of America? Mamdani’s tried to downplay the disgraceful episode, insisting Archila had no clearance to do such outreach, yet he’s not firing her or imposing any discipline. Nor even saying outright how very wrong she was. Which raises the question of whether he prefers the theocratic regime in Tehran to the United States government.” (07/11/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/07/11/opinion/does-mamdani-dare-disavow-his-openly-anti-american-dsa-comrades/

Lindsey Graham, 1955-2026

Source: Politico

“Lindsey Graham, the four-term Republican U.S. senator from South Carolina, died on Saturday after a ‘brief and sudden illness,’ his office said in a statement. … Emergency Medical Services responded to Graham’s Capitol Hill address at 8:27 p.m. Saturday for someone with ‘chest pains,’ according to audio of the call. He was 71.” (07/12/26)

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/12/lindsey-graham-dies-republican-us-senator-south-carolina-00994070

A Brief History of Strategic Tariffs in the US

Source: EconLog
by Jon Murphy

“A May 29 article in the IMF’s F&D Magazine argues in favor of using U.S. tariffs as a policy tool. It begins by questioning the argument for free trade, claiming that economists have based U.S. and global trade policy on theoretical models rather than empirical evidence: ‘Tariffs were not tried and found wanting but rejected by au courant economic models and left untried. Policymakers, scared of challenging the elite consensus derived from such models, closed off the universe of options and strategies to solve America’s challenges.’ However, in the U.S. there is an extensive history of trying to use tariffs strategically, especially in the late 1800s through the mid-1900s.” (07/10/26)

https://www.econlib.org/econlog/a-brief-history-of-strategic-tariffs-in-the-u-s

Jagger: Fans don’t want political lectures at concerts

Source: New York Post

“Mick Jagger says fans don’t come to concerts to hear a political lecture in the wake of Bruce Springsteen’s on-stage speeches targeting President Trump. The Rolling Stones frontman weighed in during an interview on The New York Times’ podcast Saturday after host David Marchese questioned him about Springsteen, who has repeatedly criticized President Trump during his latest tour. … ‘The bottom line of my thing really is that my job in the live music world is [for] those people that come is to have the best time they possibly can,’ Jagger said. … Jagger explained he’s not opposed to politics making their way into his music — he just prefers a lighter touch.” (07/12/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/07/12/us-news/mick-jagger-says-fans-dont-want-political-lectures-after-bruce-springsteens-anti-trump-speeches/