Source: Politics Politics Politics
“A Class-A Dirty Midterms Trick. The Story Behind ‘The Social Reckoning’ (with Karol Markowicz and Katie Harbath).” (10/15/26)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/a-class-a-dirty-midterms-trick-the
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“Would it be possible, given the growing divide between the Red and Blue States from coast to coast, to go back more than 200 years, and come up with a new version of the Articles of Confederation? That was, after all, what the men in Philadelphia were supposed to do. Not replace the Articles with a ‘Constitution’ but improve them. Address the issues that were keeping things in an uproar? Today, we find that in the last 237 years, we’ve come up with a lot of ideas, techniques, that would let us address those issues while still restoring the full sovereignty that the 12 States had.” (10/15/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/10/15/can-the-states-again-become-a-confederation/
Source: Independent Institute
by Jennifer Hernandez & Kristian Fors
“This report analyzes 498 appellate court decisions involving the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) from 2013 to 2023, finding that housing remains the leading target of CEQA litigation. It explores how CEQA has become a major obstacle to development in California and how various interest groups exploit the law to obstruct projects. It also offers recommendations for reform aimed at removing barriers to development, encouraging economic growth, and promoting greater prosperity in the Golden State.” (10/15/26)
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Will Trump Restart the War Against Iran Before the Midterm Elections?” (10/15/26)
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“China is not run as a centrally planned economy. It’s run like a fascist state, with party members working within businesses, only occasionally taking full control and ousting (even executing) owners and entrepreneurs and ‘uncooperative’ managers … when the State requires. Just as did the National Socialist Party during Germany’s ‘Third Reich’ period. As Peter Drucker sagely noticed, ‘Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.'” (10/15/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/10/15/this-stage-of-democratic-socialism/
Source: Roll Call
“How Sha Na Na could help determine the House majority.” (10/15/26)
https://chrt.fm/track/D3F8DG/traffic.megaphone.fm/FISCAL4695997832.mp3
Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum
“Shortly after taking office in 2025, Trump claimed to have discovered a previously unnoticed delegation of extensive tariff authority in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a 1977 law that does not mention import taxes and had never been used to impose them. That claim was rejected by every court that considered it. Last February, the Supreme Court ruled that IEEPA does not authorize tariffs at all. But Trump had a backup plan: Hours after that decision, he announced another sweeping set of tariffs, this time relying on Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. In May, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) ruled that the new tariffs were illegal …. Trump then switched to Plan C, invoking Section 301 of the Trade Act …” (10/15/26)
https://reason.com/2026/10/15/a-third-round-of-legally-dubious-tariffs/
Source: CNBC
“The federal government sued the state of California on Thursday in an escalating battle over how to prevent non-U.S. citizens from voting by mail in federal elections. The lawsuit is the latest action by the Department of Justice targeting state administration of elections, which President Donald Trump has often criticized as susceptible to fraud and voting by noncitizens. The civil complaint, which the DOJ had threatened to file, asks a judge to prevent California officials from tabulating mail-in ballots ‘from likely non-citizens in the upcoming federal election until the voter’s citizenship status can be determined.’ The Department of Justice asks that a judge order the state to set aside mail ballots from voters ‘identified by the Federal Government likely to be noncitizens,’ and to verify their citizenship status before their ballot is counted.” (10/15/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/15/california-mail-ballots-voting-lawsuit.html
Source: Checks & Balances
“AI Companies Don’t Get to Be Above the Law.” (10/15/26)
https://chkbal.substack.com/p/ai-companies-dont-get-to-be-above
Source: Law & Liberty
by Max Skjönsberg
“Civics centers, teaching civic and classical education through ‘Western civ’ and great books, are often described as conservative enterprises. In a strong sense, this is manifestly false, because they are, at least in my personal experience, entirely free from political litmus tests. Yet there is a sense in which there is an essential ‘small-c’ conservative element to civic and classical education, as there must be in all liberal learning (the appropriate term for such education). As Michael Oakeshott once put it, ‘Every human being is born as an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.'” (10/15/26)
https://lawliberty.org/civic-education-and-classical-liberalism/