Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: The Dispatch
by Mike Nelson

“The president who sold his leadership as a unitary executive seems frustrated by the results of trying to fight a war that way.” (05/27/26)

https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-iran-quagmire-allies-voters-congress/

Source: spiked
by Stefano Gujon

“As ‘safe spaces’ on Western university campuses continue to multiply, it has become clear that institutions designed to defend free thought are now breeding grounds for illiberal conformism. Higher education no longer trains students to grapple with dissent. It teaches them to avoid intellectual conflict at all costs. This conformism has not been limited to the lecture hall. It has spread outwards into companies, the media space and public life.” (05/27/26)

https://archive.is/uJjlZ

Source: Aaron Ross Powell’s Blog
by Aaron Ross Powell

“For most Americans—and particularly for the culturally reactionary ones who form Trump’s MAGA base—American history isn’t really history. It’s not a series of actual events to be studied objectively and probed thoughtfully. It is instead American lore. Like learning everything there is to know about Star Wars or about Warhammer 40,000 or about the endless variety of heroes who make up the Avengers, American lore is a comprehensive story any new event can fit into. And that you, if you’re American, can fit yourself into, too.” (05/26/26)

https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mmru6rbyis2p

Source: Antiwar.com
by Travis Lynch

“When Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that any agreement with Iran must be ‘great and meaningful,’ or there would be no agreement at all, he appeared to be drawing a wall between himself and Barack Obama’s nuclear deal. He wanted to make clear that even if negotiations were underway, they would be Trumpian negotiations: tougher, more forceful, and the ‘exact opposite’ of an agreement he had spent years denouncing as a symbol of weakness. But that statement revealed less strength than contradiction. A president who once treated Obama’s diplomacy with Iran as appeasement now has to sell his own diplomacy as victory.” (05/27/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/travis_lynch/2026/05/26/trumps-pottery-barn-war

Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker

“Around 200 economists work for the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, and roughly 200 more work for the 12 district banks around the country. The new Fed chair, Kevin Warsh, could assign some of the Fed economists to assess whether the current valuation of the stock market is consistent with the Fed’s projections for the future growth of GDP and profits. Unless their arithmetic is very different than the stuff the rest of us use, they will have to conclude that stock valuations are not consistent, unless today’s crop of stockholders expect very low future returns. That seems unlikely, but that is the alternative to saying that the market is in a bubble.” (05/27/26)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/27/bursting-the-ai-bubble-the-fed-could-end-the-who-couldve-known-defense/