Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“The president isn’t interested in resolving disputes through diplomacy. He wants to dominate the other side and be seen doing it.” (04/15/26)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/all-or-nothing-diplomacy-always-fails
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“On Tax Day Remember: The Government Owns You.” (04/15/26)
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Sometimes the news, hot off the press, turns out to be re-heated leftovers. But while some foods should not be re-cooked, the latest declassification appears worth a second feast.” (04/15/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/04/15/open-secret-re-opened/
Source: Brennan Center for Justice
by Michael Waldman
“This week, autocrat Viktor Orbán conceded defeat in Hungary’s general election. It was a landslide victory for Péter Magyar, and for democracy worldwide. Over the course of 16 years, Orbán worked to dismantle and undermine democratic institutions. He took control of most news outlets. He rewrote election rules. He replaced judges with loyalists. His government faced numerous corruption scandals, including one surrounding a presidential pardon. He was also a fan favorite of the Trump administration. Our vice president campaigned for him. What are the implications of his defeat for democracy in the United States? To be sure, midterm elections often rebuke the party in power, and it’s hard to predict whether this election augurs any November results. But just as Brexit presaged Trump in 2016, worldwide trends are at play.” (04/15/26)
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/people-speak-hungary-and-home
Source: WESH 2 News
“A grand jury indicted a Florida doctor on a manslaughter charge for allegedly removing a patient’s liver instead of his spleen during a 2024 surgery. The prosecutor for the First Judicial Circuit on Monday announced the charge of second-degree manslaughter against Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky. Prosecutors said that during an Aug. 21, 2024, surgery, which was scheduled to be a laparoscopic splenectomy, Shaknovsky removed the victim’s liver instead of his spleen. That resulted in ‘catastrophic blood loss and the patient’s death on the operating table,’ law enforcement officials wrote in a press release. The patient was a 70-year-old man from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. … Florida suspended Shaknovsky’s medical license after the surgery. Records show he voluntarily surrendered his medical license in Alabama after regulators moved to revoke his license.” (04/15/26)
https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-doctor-manslaughter-removing-wrong-organ/71026650
Source: The Atlantic
“Is Anybody Actually Winning Trump’s Iran War?” (04/15/26)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/04/david-frum-show-matt-pottinger-trumps-iran-war/686818
Source: Independent Institute
by K Lloyd Billingsley
“From the nation’s capital to coastal villages in California, protesters cry ‘no kings!’ Similar protests did not break out while the nation was under rule by the closest thing to a monarch since King George. When the COVID virus showed up in 2020, the people found themselves taking orders from Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984. Dr. Fauci ordered massive lockdowns of schools and workplaces, causing vast suffering and loss for millions of Americans.” (04/15/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/04/15/covid-king-and-queen-remembered/
Source: Racket News
by Caden Olson & Matt Taibbi
“From allegations to excuses to tearful pressers, cataloguing congressional wang-waving.” (04/15/26)
https://www.racket.news/p/racket-list-congressmen-with-pants
Source: Washington Post
“The temperature is rising on AI. What comes next?” (04/15/26)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/impromptu/the-temperature-is-rising-on-ai-what-comes-next
Source: Law & LIberty
by Richard M |Reinsch II
“The Abundance movement makes a pragmatic case for more essential goods and services and isn’t really concerned with how this supply is incentivized or generated. It forsakes what advocates regard as tired philosophical debates about limited government, markets, and freedom. Of course, to argue in such a way is to choose ends that justify a variety of human actions. Supply-side progressivism can take many different courses.” (04/16/26)