Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Kelsy Achtenberg
“All children deserve an education where they can thrive. Yet, despite the countless conversations we have about personalized learning, meeting students where they are, and recognizing individual needs, our education system continues to operate under the assumption that one educational model should work for nearly everyone. For some children, it does. For others, it doesn’t.” (11/13/26)
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Thorin Klosowski
“Privacy has always been a team sport. The actions you take with communication apps, collaborative software, or your cloud backup solutions, have long impacted everyone else you’re interacting with. But moving those choices deeper into the physical world where strangers, colleagues, family, and friends are all now a part of your privacy choices is drastically changing the game. Tech companies want us to accept a reality where one person’s privacy choices (or lack thereof) means you suddenly need to be an expert in consumer tech who understands the capabilities of many devices on the market, how they work, how and if they signal when they’re recording, and what platforms they do or do not connect to.” (11/13/26)
“The Democratic elite is not against the modish practice of war — where presidents commit U.S. forces abroad willy-nilly — they are against Republicans. Massie’s impeachment articles were too principled. What a jam. How to respond? When a motion to dismiss Massie’s resolution came up, many Democrats didn’t show up for the vote.” (11/13/26)
“Elizabeth Holmes had her way with the media. Then, the media had its way with her. Now, she has made a stunning choice, inviting a documentary film crew to witness her final 34 days of freedom, leaving us all wondering who, this time, would have their way with whom?” (11/13/26)
Source: Independent Institute
by K Lloyd Billingsley
“Five-year-old Samantha Runnion, a resident of Stanton, California, ‘had the face of an upturned blossom.’ On July 15, 2002, Alejandro Avila, claiming he was looking for a lost dog, forced the child into his car. The six foot, 200 pound Avila, 27 years old and with a history of molestation, took Samantha to a remote canyon. There he repeatedly raped her then murdered the child by strangulation and blunt force trauma. More than 4,000 people attended Samantha’s funeral. … By all indications then-Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom never spoke out on the case. Newsom was elected governor in 2018 and one of his first actions was to issue reprieves for 737 inmates on California’s death row, including Avila and ‘Grim Sleeper’ Lonnie Franklin, convicted of 10 murders.” (11/13/26)
“Now that Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is challenging Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for Senate majority leader, we have a choice that lets us honor an election of change. Schumer’s supporters credit him for every Senate upset and proclaim his inevitable coronation as majority leader after leading the Senate Democrats for nearly ten years. But if he’s such a Zen master strategist, why do most of the new senators who represent so much of the party’s future almost unanimously want someone different? Maybe because they’re actually in touch with average Americans, and recognize that letting Schumer continue to symbolize the Democratic brand as majority leader insults the very desire for a different direction that powered their victory.” (11/14/26)
“If there is still someone out there who has persisted until now in the idea that Ukrainian history began in 2022, and that wiser members of the U.S. establishment didn’t warn against, and more conniving members strategize for, each U.S. step toward war from the NATO enlargement of the 1990s through the U.S.-backed coup of 2014, the U.S.-backed war that began in 2014, Obama’s military training and base building, Trump’s weapons shipments, Biden’s hostility toward diplomacy, the fantastic horror fables of Russiagate, the reduction of Germany and France to mindless puppets treating the Minsk agreements as a trick, and the U.S. blocking of negotiation or peace just before and just after the Russian invasion — and if such a someone has reached a point of open-mindedness to information, there’s a new book that might really help.” (11/13/26)
“For working families, corporate taxes might seem like a distant concern, something for accountants, lobbyists, and politicians in Washington to debate. But corporate taxes are vital to whether our communities can afford healthcare, infrastructure, good schools, and other public services people need to raise healthy families. A generation ago, nearly a third of federal revenue came from corporate taxes. Today they cover only about 6%. When corporations pay less, the gap doesn’t disappear: It means that ordinary taxpayers have to make up for it—or we get weaker schools, roads, and healthcare, plus even bigger deficits. Most Americans, across party lines, think big corporations should pay more. So why doesn’t it happen? Because corporations spend heavily on lobbying and campaign contributions, and their favorite talking point is ‘competitiveness’: Dare to tax us more, and we’ll take our business elsewhere. This threat has helped justify decades of corporate tax cuts.” (11/14/26)
“The number of POTENTIAL government students has been decreasing since 2007, when birth rates began falling. That was the beginning of the turning point, the ‘crisis.’ Private education and homeschooling are increasingly reducing the number of ACTUAL government students as well. Will some people experience negative effects from this ‘crisis?’ Yes. Parents may have to make some difficult choices about where, how, and from whom their kids will receive education. Fewer potential teachers and administrators will have jobs waiting for them if they choose to major in education in college. These are the kinds of problems that markets are very good at dealing with. Government monopolies, not so much.” (11/12/26)
“Several concerns drove voters to reject Trump’s GOP in historic fashion: the economy (centered on prices and affordability), Iran, corruption, aggressive deportations, and Trump himself. We know this because voters told us—before and after the election. … the war was an accelerant, not what got voters’ economic fire roaring in the first place. As Phil Magness already detailed for The Dispatch, the administration’s weakness on the economy started with Trump’s tariffs, with voter disapproval evident in both last week’s exit polls and numerous surveys dating back to last spring …. They told us they’d vote on tariffs. Then they did.” (11/12/26)
