Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff

“In the space of just two weeks, at least six nations around the globe have held consequential national or local elections. Voters in only two countries returned decisive leadership preferences. On Oct. 25, Brazilians elected their incumbent president to an unprecedented fourth term, and Serbia’s student-led movement won enough Assembly seats to end 12 years of rule by an autocrat. Elsewhere, voting tallies transmitted less clear-cut and more complex messages. None of the traditional parties or blocs won sufficient votes to form a national government in New Zealand or Israel, or to administer most major municipalities in South Africa. In the United States, Democrats gained congressional and state seats. But their majorities in Washington are not sufficient to withstand obstruction or vetoes from a Republican-led presidency. On one level, these results might seem like a recipe for legislative inertia and policy stagnation.” (11/09/26)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/1109/Globally-voters-seek-consensus-coalition-building

Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter

“I know the difficulty some people will have with that title. Not the words, but the doing it. Watching these leftists promise to ‘investigate’, toss in prison or simply execute anyone in the Trump administration or Elon Musk is a lot like being in Germany in the early 1930s: you hear the words but simply can’t believe they mean the words. You assume they’re just being hyperbolic; saying things for effect. They are not, they mean it. Many of these new Members of Congress, and a huge number of the people who put them there, would happily take you out. They say it, they scream it, but if you repeat it back to them, you will be cancelled. ” (11/10/26)

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/11/10/do-not-wish-democrats-dead-n2686176

Source: The Hill
by Brian Daniel Mounce

“On the runway in Fairbanks, Ken Jouppi was loading his Cessna for a short hop to Beaver, Alaska, a village of a few dozen folks on the banks of the Yukon. His passenger was flying out to see her husband for her birthday, and she’d packed some beer in with the groceries. Troopers showed up with a warrant before the plane ever left the ground. Some of you might be thinking, yikes, is Jouppi another Andrew Carter Thornton II? ‘Cocaine Bear,’ the sequel? Nope. Beaver’s a dry town. Not the weather, the beer. Bringing alcohol into Beaver’s a crime, and he and his passenger were both convicted of a misdemeanor. Three days in jail apiece and a $1,500 fine, as low as the law goes. But then Alaska did something extraordinary: It took Jouppi’s plane.” (11/10/26)

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/6208602-supreme-court-ken-jouppi-plane/

Source: American Greatness
by Victor Davis Hanson

“In the 126 years since 1900, nearly 90 percent of the midterm elections have led to the party in the Oval Office losing House seats, and two-thirds of those same elections have led to it losing Senate seats. Given this history, midterm losses of some sort in 2026 were almost a sure bet. But what ensued in November went well beyond all normal expectations. When all the votes are tabulated, the current blue wave may match the massive midterm losses that buried Bill Clinton in 1994 and Barack Obama in 2010. First, what does this massive 2026 slapdown now portend? A second-term president in his final two years, facing a euphoric and frenzied opposition Congress, emboldened by a landslide, will have difficulty confirming federal judges or cabinet members. Most presidents in that dire situation try to rush through confirmations in the brief two remaining months of their lame-duck congressional majorities, not an easy task.” (11/10/26)

https://amgreatness.com/2026/11/10/the-midterms-an-autopsy/

Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman

“How the tech broligarchs tried to inflict their dystopian dreams on the rest of us.” (11/10/260

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-cyberpunking-of-america-fixed

Source: Law & Liberty
by Samuel Gregg

“The increasingly wild promises of social democracy are what has led to economic stagnation—not the market.” (11/10/26)

https://lawliberty.org/the-dangerous-twilight-of-social-democracy/