Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Liberal Currents
by Paul Henry Rosenberg

“Rebuilding the Democratic Party in rural areas is necessary to halt the nation’s undemocratic slide.” (04/29/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/can-we-win-back-rurals/

Source: Antiwar.com
by Jordan Liz

“Section 702 was added to FISA in 2008 with a provision that requires Congress to periodically reauthorize it. The measure allows national security agencies like the NSA, FBI and CIA to collect and monitor – without a warrant – any electronic communications sent to and from non-US persons ‘reasonably believed to be located’ outside the US. Notably, Americans who send messages to people abroad may likewise have their data surveilled. Law enforcement agencies have consistently abused this loophole to spy on US citizens in clear violation of their Fourth Amendment rights.” (04/29/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/jordan_liz/2026/04/28/congress-must-end-fisa-section-702/

Source: The American Conservative
by Peter Van Buren

“[T]he question hanging over the present war is whether we are witnessing the reassertion of American dominance or the continuation of its gradual displacement. The United States is still the meanest dog on the block. No nation can match our ability to destroy things, literally to erase a whole society off the face of the earth if we really wanted to. Even without our archipelago of bases worldwide, the U.S. can launch untouchable B-2s and other bombers from Missouri, bomb Tehran, and return them home safely. That is not the same as shaping what comes after — that is, primacy. The way the Iran War plays out says in part whether the U.S. is indispensable in reacting to nascent nuclear states or directing events on the very largest scales possible, as was envisioned in the postwar world.” (04/29/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-will-the-iran-war-end/

Source: Law & Liberty
by Alexander William Salter

“John Locke’s A Letter Concerning Toleration is widely regarded as a foundational text of religious liberty. For centuries, thinkers have praised its clarity, moral confidence, and rejection of the coercive religious politics that prevailed in early modern Europe. On the surface, Locke offers a simple and powerful claim: the state has no authority over the salvation of souls, and therefore it ought not to coerce religious belief or practice. But this framing, so often viewed as self-evident, rests on claims that are highly contestable.” (04/29/26)

https://lawliberty.org/religious-freedom-before-locke/

Source: Mother Jones
by Tim Murphy

“Musk v. Altman is a fight over how much power is too much in Silicon Valley.” (04/29/26)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/elon-musk-sam-altman-openai-trial/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Peter C Earle

“The idea that artificial intelligence could usher in a ‘post-money’ world — and that such a world would also render firms obsolete — rests on a misunderstanding of what firms are and why they exist. Even if, for the sake of argument, we accept the highly implausible premise that money would disappear beneath an AI/robotics explosion of superabundance, it does not follow that firms would disappear with it. Firms are not artifacts or by-products of monetary exchange; they are organizational responses to coordination problems, uncertainty, and the costs of markets.” (04/29/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/why-ai-wont-kill-the-firm/