Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Washington Post
by Jim Geraghty

“On Friday, the Iranians destroyed a U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry aircraft at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. The drone and missile attack on the base also injured 12 U.S. soldiers. This was foreseeable — and in fact foreseen. Yet if President Donald Trump was concerned about this predicted threat, he hid it well. … perhaps the Iranians just got lucky with the shot that destroyed the E-3 Sentry in Saudi Arabia. But since the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, numerous reports have indicated that the Russians are helping Iran with their targeting of U.S. forces.” (03/31/26)

https://archive.is/zIz6s

Source: The Dispatch
by Greg Lukianoff & Adam Goldstein

“Everybody understands, at least instinctively, why it matters when a president threatens the press. People also more or less understand why it matters when he menaces universities, museums, or other cultural institutions. Those are visible targets, and they read as political in an obvious way.
Attacks on law firms land differently. Part of that is because many major firms are hardly natural objects of public sympathy. Most everyday Americans won’t shed many tears for institutions associated with enormous hourly rates, corporate power, and a profession that people tend to joke about until they need a lawyer. … But that perception is exactly why this threat is so easy to underestimate.” (03/31/26)

https://archive.is/OuOmq

Source: Mother Jones
by Pema Levy & Isabela Dias

“Meet the conservative legal minds telling the Supreme Court to side with Trump.” [editor’s note: By definition, a “conservative legal mind” would support birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship is what the US has always had, and what the US Constitution has unambiguously mandated for the last 150 years. Only “living constitutionalists” (usually calling themselves “progressives”) could hold otherwise – TLK] (03/31/26)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/birthright-citizenship-ilan-wurman-history-amicus-brief/

Source: Wired
by Brendan I Koerner

“For months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown — pivoting as he’s been outmatched. He’s also lost his job and become a target.” (03/31/26)

https://archive.is/Xfazb

Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob

“For many decades, U.S. presidents have cited national security as a reason for this or that exercise of power … and spending. Watching CBS’s 60 Minutes two weeks ago, it became painfully obvious that ‘national security’ are simply two words our past leaders spat out when politically convenient and not at all a concept to which they have paid serious attention.” (03/31/26)

https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/03/31/what-we-worry/

Source: Law & Liberty
by Mitch Daniels

“Entitlement costs keep rising, which means new experiments in taxation are coming. They may already be here.” (03/31/26)

https://lawliberty.org/consumption-tax-on-the-horizon/