Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Liberal Currents
by Joseph Stieb

“The restraint movement’s attachment to Trump has compromised its ability to offer a credible alternative to American foreign policy orthodoxy.” (07/30/25)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/how-the-restraint-movement-lost-its-way/

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker

“The Covid era cut through traditional ideological paradigms like knives on tissue. Nothing behaved as we might have expected. The civil libertarians were nowhere in sight. The courts did not work. Big business and media fully cooperated. The major religions caved. The national security state thrived, while both parties let it all happen. The population was mercilessly propagandized and pillaged with no resistance from the commanding heights. … The state did not save us from large corporations and the top layers in commercial society did not save us from the state. They worked together to strangle the liberty of everyone else.” (07/30/25)

https://brownstone.org/articles/freedom-in-a-post-covid-world/

Source: The Daily Beast
by Chris Cillizza

“Two things appear to be true about the ongoing controversy over Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and his administration’s reluctance to release all the files related to the case: 1. Donald Trump will survive this, as he has survived so many other scandals, controversies and gaffes over the past decade. 2. This story has reached critical velocity — and isn’t going anywhere.” (07/30/25)

https://archive.is/P7KAS

Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison

“The famine in Gaza is entirely man-made. Like other atrocity famines, it is the result of deliberate policy choices. The Israeli government has been deliberately starving the people of Gaza for the better part of two years. As more than 100 aid groups said in a joint statement, ‘the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza.’ Since the start of the war in October 2023, the Israeli government has been inflicting collective punishment on the civilian population by using starvation as a weapon, devastating Gaza’s civilian infrastructure, and destroying the health care system.” (07/30/25)

https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-man-made-atrocity-famine-in-gaza

Source: Niskanen Center
by Cassandra Zimmer

“In June, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced she would end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti, removing legal protections from more than 500,000 Haitian nationals living in the United States. Earlier this year, she rescinded TPS for over 348,000 Venezuelans and 55,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans. With Cameroon and Nepal already terminated, more than one million TPS holders are now poised to lose lawful status in 2025 …. Many TPS holders work in America’s most labor-starved sectors, including construction, home healthcare, food processing, hospitality, and agriculture. Employers who have long relied on TPS workers will be forced to terminate experienced staff while scrambling to hire replacements in an exceptionally tight labor market. … There may be a solution to capitalize on these workers’ talents and ensure they can work and thrive in safe communities — unfortunately for the U.S. economy, those communities are abroad.” (07/30/25)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-u-s-cut-off-a-million-tps-holders-heres-why-thats-everyone-elses-opportunity/