Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“The president’s attempt to get more states to establish diplomatic ties with Israel will be no more successful than the criminal war he started.” (05/26/26)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-normalization-distraction
Source: Fox News
“A Canadian teenager is facing arson charges after authorities say she torched a charter bus belonging to an American professional baseball team during a road trip to Winnipeg, Canada. The Kane County Cougars, a U.S.-based independent professional baseball team, were traveling in Canada for games against the Winnipeg Goldeyes. On May 21, law enforcement agencies responded to the team’s bus engulfed in flames outside Blue Cross Park, according to Winnipeg Police Service. Authorities determined that the fire was intentionally set. Two teenagers were initially taken into custody. A 15-year-old girl has since been charged with arson causing damage to property and possession of incendiary material.” (05/25/26)
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“Thomas Massie may have primaried by the DC swamp but he still has seven months to continue holding the uniparty accountable.” (05/26/26)
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes
“Under the guise of fighting money laundering, the EU is making anonymous economic activity progressively harder. Starting in July 2027, Europeans will no longer be allowed to pay businesses or professionals more than €10,000 in cash (roughly $11,500). Any transaction above €3,000 (just under $3,500) will require mandatory customer identification. This is another step toward political uniformity across Europe, stripping countries of autonomy and subtly pushing citizens toward the digital euro. This measure, part of the new Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR), applies directly to all Member States. Under the pretext of fighting money laundering, Brussels is imposing yet another form of forced harmonization that ignores the principle of subsidiarity: the idea that decisions should be made at the level closest to citizens and national governments.” (05/26/26)
https://fee.org/articles/the-slow-disappearance-of-cash-in-europe/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Helen Dale
“Earlier this month—on May 7th—British voters put Labour to the sword in elections across England, Wales, and Scotland. The results are indicative of a political realignment, one that British political historian Stephen Davies forecasted more than a decade ago, and which he sets out in thoughtful detail in his latest book, The Great Realignment: Why the New Right is Here to Stay.” (05/26/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/cultural-conservatives-labour-and-a-new-realignment/
Source: New York Times
“White House Shakes Up Green Card Policy, and the Pope Takes On A.I.” (05/26/26)
Source: Law & Liberty
by Paul Moreno
“This year marks the centennial of zoning in the United States, when the Supreme Court upheld comprehensive municipal land-use restrictions over the claims of property owners. The decision, Euclid v. Ambler Realty, was a milestone in the progressives’ campaign to overcome constitutional impediments to their plans for social engineering. In the ensuing century, zoning fundamentally altered the geography of American life, turning what had just become an urban-majority nation into a suburban one. Critics on both the libertarian right and woke left condemn zoning as a back-door version of apartheid, a stealthy way to keep immigrants and blacks out of ‘desirable’ neighborhoods.” (05/26/26)
Source: The Atlantic
by Jonathan Chait
“‘I helped set in motion a revolution that aims to rebuild something like a true liberal democracy in America,’ Barry C. Lynn wrote two years ago in Harper’s. The claim is notable less for being impossibly grandiose than for being more or less correct. Lynn is the intellectual godfather of what is now known as the neo-Brandeisian movement, which identifies corporate consolidation as the singular, villainous force behind everything that has gone wrong in the United States. … The effects of his revolution on the party and its ability to govern are far greater than many intellectuals, politicians, and staffers seem to grasp. To attribute all problems to a single cause is to reject every solution but one.” (05/26/26)
Source: NBC News
“Fresh off last week’s primary loss, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., announced Monday he had filed paperwork for a 2028 run for the House — or something else. ‘I filed with the [Federal Election Commission] for the 2028 House race. This allows me to raise funds to continue my political operations supporting my position as a current office holder and as a potential candidate for federal office,’” Massie wrote on X. ‘I haven’t made a final decision about which office to seek, if I run,’ he added. In an interview Sunday on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press,’ Massie declined to rule out a 2028 presidential bid.” (05/25/26)
Source: Yascha Mounk
“H.W. Brands on the Making of George Washington.” (05/26/26)