Category: Opinion

Source: Law & Liberty
by Jared Rhoads

“Cross-subsidization inside hospitals doesn’t just distort prices, it makes healthcare harder to fix.” (07/06/26)

https://lawliberty.org/the-headache-of-hospital-pricing/

Source: CounterPunch
by Binoy Kampmark

“In the annals of policy, strategy and budgeting, the AUKUS pact comprising Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States will be seen as one of the most mindless, absurd projects of tiny, poorly furnished minds. Not for those in the UK and US, with both receiving Croesus-rich dollops of Australian cash for stuttering submarine programs. Not for flabby think tankers who repeatedly run out bills on the advisory circuit lauding the importance of costly boats and the China threat. It will be down to Australian government officials, elected and appointed, who seek the imaginary assurance of nuclear-powered submarines that they do not need, expending money they can scarce afford (AU$368 billion), while surrendering the country’s sovereignty in carefree, even treasonous manner.” (07/06/26)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/06/scrutinizing-the-unpardonable-the-aukus-public-inquiry-so-far/

Source: Common Dreams
by Norman Solomon

“The following invented interview has been edited for clarity and length: Norman Solomon: You’ve downplayed the importance of the individual in history. But the United States now has as president an individual who transformed power relations and the political landscape. Karl Marx: I can assure you that he did not do that by himself. Power relations are class relations. And by the way, I never said individuals are irrelevant to history. I exhorted individuals to get involved in changing history. NS: President Trump has rolled back gains from the last hundred years and more. Also, he’s mentally unstable, to put it mildly. KM: The basics still hold. As I wrote in 1869 about a situation in France where a cult existed around a tyrant, the class struggle ‘created circumstances and relationships that made it possible for a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero’s part’.” (07/06/26)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/karl-marx-reflects-on-donald-trump

Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Andrew Jason Cohen

“Last week I spent several days in Philadelphia at the Braver Angels National Convention. During one session, it occurred to me that the anti-polarization work they and others do responds to three problems of modern society and only the first, polarization, is obvious. Two others are perhaps less obvious but also important—both on their own and because they are intertwined with polarization. Let me take each in turn.” (07/06/26)

https://prosociallibertarians.substack.com/p/polarization-anti-intellectualism

Source: Washington Monthly
by Garrett Epps

“Which ones are most concerning, and how you can save democracy.” (07/06/26)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/06/trump-2026-midterms-election-subversion/

Source: The American Conservative
by Spencer Neale

“Against the wishes of his doctors, Rep. Tom Kean (R-NJ) returned to Congress on Tuesday, his first appearance there in more than 100 days. Addressing the House floor, Kean began by noting that he is a ‘private person’ before explaining his multi-month absence from his duties in Washington, DC. ‘Several months ago, due to health concerns, I entered the hospital for some testing,’ said the 57-year-old Kean. ‘I was given the diagnosis of depression.’ It was a stark admission for a politician whose critics have long questioned his absence but were met with silence. Though depression is not disqualifying in and of itself, the lack of transparency from a person who was elected to provide it is worrying. Furthermore, if a disability keeps you off the job for four months …. then the job likely isn’t compatible with the disability Kean is currently navigating.” (07/06/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-tom-kean-question/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Nicolas Cachanosky

“Monetary policy deserves insulation from politics, but regulation and emergency lending powers may not. Can Congress and the Courts differentiate?” (07/06/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-fed-needs-independence-not-immunity/

Source: Libertarian Institute
by José Niño

“A state that invades the same neighbor across eight decades, covets its water and land, punishes its civilians as a matter of doctrine, and then defies its own superpower sponsor is not behaving like a normal nation. It is behaving like a rogue one. Washington has spent those decades underwriting the behavior, supplying the aircraft, bombs, and diplomatic cover that make each new occupation possible. The honest response to a partner that treats American requests as optional is to stop financing and eventually break ties with it. The United States should end military aid to Israel and begin economically decoupling from it, and the wider international community should treat a serial occupier the way it treats other states that seize territory by force, with isolation rather than embrace.” (07/06/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/washington-must-stop-arming-a-serial-occupier

Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter

“As someone born in Michigan, and whose family all still live there, you never really fully leave your home state, even when you live somewhere else. As such, I’ve been watching the Senate race there with keen interest. I have to wonder: are Democrats about to nominate a terrorist sympathizing anti-Semite? I know that doesn’t really narrow the field much when dealing with Democrats, as this seems to be about half their candidates these days. But in this case I’m thinking of Abdul El-Sayed. Abdul is allegedly a doctor, though I’m not sure he’s ever really practiced medicine, or at least that much. He’s mostly been a left-wing bureaucrat for Democrats – a diversity box-checker who happily will do whatever the ‘progressive’ wing of the party demands. Like most people in that basket, he would’ve made a great Nazi – following orders without question.” (07/06/26)

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/07/06/are-michigan-democrats-about-to-nominate-a-monster-for-senate-n2678832

Source: Antiwar.com
by M Reza Behnam

“The 250th anniversary of American independence is fundamentally incompatible with a foreign policy defined by overwhelming civilian casualties and global devastation. As the United States commemorates its semiquincentennial with celebratory pageantry, this milestone forces a reckoning. How can a nation built on the promise of ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’ justify its role in upending and extinguishing millions of lives across the Middle East?” (07/06/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/reza_behnam/2026/07/05/the-united-states-at-250-an-ode-or-goad/