“Spanish police are searching the headquarters of the ruling Socialist Party as part of an ongoing investigation into possible financial wrongdoing, the Civil Guard said on Wednesday. The raid on the office in central Madrid is another blow to the party of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, whose Socialists have been hammered by a series of corruption scandals. The Civil Guard said the police were under judicial orders to find material relevant to a National Court probe into accusations of corruption against former party members and other individuals.” (05/27/26)
Source: Property and Environment Research Center
by Jonathan Thompson, Adam Daigneault, & Joshua Plisinski
“Old-growth forests provide exceptional ecological and cultural value, store disproportionately large amounts of carbon, and support unique habitat structures and species assemblages not found in younger forests. Consequently, their protection has been a longstanding conservation priority. Yet globally, old-growth forests are rare, fragmented, and in decline.” (05/27/26)
“Countries across the region have strong economic incentives for working with Beijing. Washington should try to compete rather than coerce.” (05/27/26)
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Pelican Institute for Public Policy
“At the April meeting of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, Commissioner JP Coussan directed staff to open a rulemaking docket evaluating ‘private use electrical networks’ — a move that could fundamentally reshape how large-scale energy projects are powered in Louisiana. The directive comes at a pivotal moment for the state. Louisiana is rapidly emerging as a national hub for artificial intelligence infrastructure, hyperscale data centers, advanced manufacturing, and industrial expansion. But meeting that demand will require something the current regulatory structure struggles to deliver: dramatically more electricity production at market speed.” (05/27/26)
“Former U.S. president Joe Biden sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday, seeking to bar the release of audio recordings and transcripts of private conversations with his biographer in 2016 and 2017. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington D.C., comes ahead of the department’s planned June 15 release of the materials to the U.S. House judiciary committee and the conservative Heritage Foundation. The foundation sought them after they were used as part of then-special counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents. Hur declined to bring criminal charges.” (05/26/26)
“American political successions in recent years happen counterintuitively: implicit hand-offs between two nominally opposing sides. This strange reality is where we derive our notion of ‘the uniparty’ and the media its notion of ‘partisanship.’ Through the ‘partisan’ lens favored by media, our politics appears divided between a party, the Republicans, in hock to Israel, the ‘big five’ weapons contractors, real estate, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley; and a party, the Democrats, in hock to powerful ‘progressive’ or ‘Left’ nonprofits like ActBlue, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Center for American Progress, and the Open Society Foundations. But the ‘uniparty’ theory of the case shared by many politically disenfranchised Americans is a more accurate read of our political reality.” (05/27/26)
“Israel acts like any other apartheid state, but receives a level of deference from the American government and press and public quite unlike any other.” (05/27/26)
