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/

Source: Independent Institute
by Caleb Petitt

“The Jones Act spends its political energy on shipbuilding. The real maritime power game is somewhere else.” (07/10/26)

https://www.independent.org/article/2026/07/10/america-maritime-policy/

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

Source: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus
by David Beckworth

“What the Federal Reserve Can Learn from Norges Bank’s Tiered Reserve System.” (07/10/26)

https://macroeconomicpolicynexus.substack.com/p/lean-mean-and-norwegian

Source: Reason
by Nick Gillespie

“For the same reason their ranks have grown to record highs: They dislike the federal government.” (07/10/26)

https://reason.com/2026/07/10/why-are-political-independents-less-patriotic-than-ever/