Source: The Daily Economy
by Alex Rosado
“Competition, deregulation, and innovation are giving consumers faster internet at lower prices.” (09/25/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/affordable-broadband-is-a-local-victory/
Source: EconLog
by Paul Dragos Aligica
“We are living through a great social transformation comparable to the industrial revolution. What sets it apart is not only its magnitude, but its multidimensional convergence: technological, economic, political, and epistemic shifts unfolding simultaneously and reinforcing one another. This shift places growing strain on inherited political cleavages and ideological frameworks, many forged under very different technological and institutional conditions. Mega-trends such as digitalization, artificial intelligence, platform economies, biotechnology, and the reconfiguration of global networks are not just reshaping production and exchange; they are redefining the conditions under which governance operates. The result is a systemic transformation that penetrates the foundations of contemporary political and economic orders. At the core of this transformation is a radical expansion of the institutional possibility frontier.” (09/25/26)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/the-constitution-of-liberty-in-the-era-of-ai
Source: Law & Liberty
by Itxu Diaz
“The dialectical battle between traditionalists and lovers of liberty has given us brilliant debates over the past few centuries, but also countless missed opportunities. The battle for freedom must be fought continuously, because whenever it is not being fought, freedom retreats; it is always under threat. We see this often these days. In confronting that threat, beyond the work of the usual figures, it may be useful to reconsider the work of those who called themselves ‘authentic reactionaries’ and who, in reality, also offered fruitful arguments in defense of freedom.” (09/25/26)
Source: New York Post
by Rodrigo Paz Pereira
“Bolivia is beginning a new chapter. For nearly two decades, my country was governed by the Movement Toward Socialism. That period reshaped Bolivia’s economy, institutions, and relationship with the United States. Today, my government is taking a different direction: rebuilding confidence, strengthening institutions, opening the economy to investment, and creating more room for private enterprise and entrepreneurship. When I took office, Bolivia’s Central Bank had only $51 million in reserves. Ten months later, reserves had risen to close to $1.2 billion, and our objective is to continue rebuilding them. Inflation remains high, fuel shortages have tested our people, and the work ahead is difficult. But the direction is clear: Bolivia is putting its economic house in order. ” (09/26/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/president-paz-bolivia-rejected-socialism-open-business
Source: Jonathan Turley Blog
by Jonathan Turley
“Karl Marx believed that ‘Democracy is the road to socialism’. Socialists seem to have found a generation of dupes to buy their ahistorical, fanciful pitch. A new poll shows 43% now have a positive view of socialism. An astonishing 65% of Democrats have a positive view. Socialism is now the rage on the left. Like clothing styles, if you wait long enough, socialism tends to come back into style with generations with no memory of past failures. However, it is an astonishing trend in one of the most prosperous nations on Earth that outlasted a history cluttered with the broken failures of socialist and communist systems. A new slick packaging of socialism has emerged with leaders such as Zohran Mamdani offering to teach people of the ‘warmth of collectivism’. The Democratic Socialists of America are enticing voters with narratives like ‘Imagine the end of capitalism’.” (09/25/26)
Source: Antiwar.com
by Nolan Denaro
“American troops at bases across the Middle East have tragically been killed by Iranian strikes, as the military is forced to ration the remaining stockpile of defensive weapons. Just days into the war, America’s client-states in the Gulf were said to have depleted years worth of munitions. In the months of conflict that followed these dire reports, the effects of what [Pat] Buchanan called ‘imperial overstretch’ were being felt. Bases faced an onslaught of Iranian missiles and drones. Damage was so severe that many will likely not be returned to by the U.S. military. A chaotic withdrawal, of sorts. The American regional order in the Middle East is collapsing in real time.” (09/25/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/nolan_denaro/2026/09/24/americas-arsenal-while-supplies-last
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Martin Di Caro
“Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent Azmat Khan says the Pentagon still obfuscates, lies, and manipulates the truth about civilian deaths in war.” (09/25/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/precision-strikes-iran-civilians/
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
“For good or ill, individuals differ in all sorts of ways, many of them relevant to their ability to please us, the consumers. No need to stop the presses—we all know this. Yet many intellectuals want a social system premised on the principle that people are ‘equal’ not as a moral/legal presumption, but equal in intelligence, talent, energy, time preference, conscientiousness, cooperativeness, etc.—and therefore deserving of more or less equal incomes, outcomes, and opportunities. Anything short of their ideal (‘disparate outcomes’), the egalitarians tell us, must be chalked up to past or present injustice (racism, for example) and privilege, requiring coercive government intervention. That’s wokeism. People who are honest with themselves know those intellectuals are worse than wrong and that the record of their ideal in practice has been bloody beyond belief.” (09/25/26)
https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-freedom-markets-and-income-inequality
Source: The American Prospect
by Gabrielle Gurley
“On Monday, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals further confounded Missouri’s ongoing mid-decade redistricting debacle. The three-member federal panel sided with a lower federal court and directed the state to use a new map gerrymandered in 2025 and specially designed to propel Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver into retirement—part of President Trump’s effort to secure the largest possible advantages for Republicans in the midterm elections. In early September, the Missouri Supreme Court had unanimously ruled that the 2025 map could not be used without first being approved in a voter referendum, especially since People Not Politicians, the Missouri referendum advocacy group backing the map question, had met all of the constitutional requirements to secure a slot on the ballot.” (09/25/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/09/25/after-missouri-mid-decade-redistricting-may-die-a-natural-death/
Source: The American Conservative
by Luke Nicastro
“When J.D. Vance was elected to the Senate from Ohio in 2022, he won his race by a healthy 6-point margin. Four years later, his successor in that seat—Sen. John Husted (R-OH)—is down by between 4 and 8 points, depending on the poll. Midterms are always hard for the party in power, and GOP candidates this year face a number of headwinds. But let’s be honest: It’s the war, stupid. Voters in Ohio, like voters across the country, are furious at paying more for gas (and everything else) because the president got us into an unwinnable Mideast conflict at the behest of a foreign country. They’re tired of bearing the costs, and they’re tired of being lied to. So Husted has sought to distance himself from this debacle.” (09/25/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/on-iran-republicans-want-to-have-it-both-ways/