Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker

“It doesn’t appear as though the jump in energy prices has yet had much effect on the labor market, as the economy added 115,000 jobs in April. Year-over-year wage growth was 3.6 percent, which is likely to be roughly even with the inflation rate that will be reported next week. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.3 percent, with little change for most demographic groups.” (05/11/26)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/11/on-the-april-jobs-report/

Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob

“Do senior Democrats not understand how our government is designed? … when something violates the constitution it matters not at all whether it passed with 99.9 percent support or the slightest majority.” (05/11/26)

https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/05/11/cracy-crats-the-const

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Marcos Giansante

“There is a recurring temptation in political economy to reduce social order to a problem of conflict. If human interests are not perfectly aligned, the argument goes, stability must rest on mechanisms that prevent clashes, enforce boundaries, and ensure compliance with rules, especially those governing property. This view — while internally consistent — overlooks a more fundamental insight: social coordination does not depend on the absence of conflict, but on individuals adjusting their plans within a framework of dispersed knowledge.” (05/11/26)

https://mises.org/power-market/coordination-not-conflict-what-hayek-got-right-about-social-order

Source: The American Conservative
by Peter Van Buren

“The Iran War may prove to be little more than a blip on the world’s radar. Or its real significance may lie less in who wins militarily than in whether it accelerates global recognition that the United States is no longer willing or able to enforce the international order it created after 1945. There is a strong argument that, even as the missiles continue to fly, the war is not that significant. It appears today the most likely outcome will be a return to something like the status quo in the Middle East. … The opposite argument requires focusing on a longer sweep of history, in which the Iran War may be a significant marker in the slow-motion end of the global system set in place by the United States after the Second World War.” (05/11/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/welcome-to-the-new-world-order/

Source: Law & Liberty
by Juliana Geran Pilon

“It takes a lawyer’s disciplined detachment, ability to focus on the most relevant facts of a case, commitment to law, and linguistic accuracy in order to produce a book as competent and useful as Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law. But besides the ideal professional training, Yale-educated US district judge for the Southern District of Florida and former federal prosecutor Roy Altman has the equally essential capacity to appreciate the moral significance of his topic at this moment in history.” (05/11/26)

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/whos-on-trial/