Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman
“Acknowledging the feel that this ain’t exactly real, or it’s real but it ain’t exactly there.” (11/05/26)
https://gideons.substack.com/p/democracy-is-coming-to-india-and
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Yesterday, Donald Trump and the Republicans took the proverbial shellacking. We’ve seen this sort of thing before. It’s not unheard of. Americans repudiate failed programs, and Trump, who promised to keep the American people out of war did the precise opposite of what got him elected in the first place. Only by grace extended from the American people could the application of the varnish be withheld. … This could be a warning to all: the awfulness of your opponents will not stay the hand of shellac . . . er, citizen correction.” (11/05/26)
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“As we survey the wreckage of Republican political fortunes, it’s clear what comes next. Payback is the first priority of Democrats who want to use their victories to grind Republicans into the mud. You saw it in the gloating, Mamdani-esque victory speech from Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed, in which he sarcastically referred to Vice President JD Vance as ‘habibi’ who will have to eat crow when the VP swears him in. You saw it in Minnesota Sen.-elect Peggy Flanagan’s speech: ‘We will rip ICE apart.’ You saw it in the salivating from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) about impeaching Trump. You saw it in the ugly threats against Elon Musk and ‘greedy billionaires’.” (11/05/26)
Source: The Daily Economy
by Joakim Book
“Housing is less affordable, governments are drowning in debt, and workers feel stuck. Has technological progress stopped translating into better lives?” (11/05/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/ive-lost-faith-in-human-progress-have-we-stalled/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Logan Tantibanchachai
“Markets bring together people who otherwise have little reason to cooperate. The voluntary economic relationships critics dismiss may help sustain civil society.” (11/05/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/markets-build-trust-not-just-wealth/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Ilya Shapiro
“Americans made it to our country’s 250th birthday without agreeing on whether the occasion calls for celebration or indictment. Some of our most influential institutions regard the Declaration of Independence as evidence for the prosecution. The men who proclaimed human equality owned slaves, don’t ya know, so the principles they proclaimed were fraudulent and the country they founded must spend its remaining days confessing its illegitimacy. A Nation Born in a Day: Visions of the American Founding offers a splendid corrective.” (11/05/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-republic-we-inherited/
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Martin Di Caro
“If foreign policy could decide an election, then 1992 upended expectations. Barely eight months after the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the last time, President George H. W. Bush found himself reminding Americans that he had led the USSR peacefully into history’s dustbin while also liberating Kuwait from the clutches of Saddam Hussein.” (11/05/26)
Source: Liberal Currents
by Katherine Alejandra Cross
“What defines liberalism, and forever yokes it to its restive left-wing progeny, is the fundamental conviction that humanity can be improved in this life rather than the next. It’s hard to overstate how radical this idea was in the 18th and 19th centuries, and how the reaction against it still rages brushfire-hot. Indeed, there is an unbroken line between today’s cargo-cult neofascism and the earliest expressions of fundamentalist reaction. It is the battle of our time, in every hour of the modern world.” (11/05/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-goddess-of-the-nightclub/
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen
“The casual observer could be forgiven for wondering how the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a Sudanese paramilitary organization notorious for atrocities in Darfur, became powerful enough to challenge the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) for control of the country when its civilian government was overthrown in 2021. Believe it or not, the answer runs through the Global War on Terror, Washington’s disastrous handling of Yemen, and Barack Obama’s determination to placate Saudi Arabia. The connections might seem tenuous. They aren’t.” (11/05/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/from-yemen-to-sudan-obamas-catastrophe-spread-wide
Source: Common Dreams
by Melissa Garriga
“Tuesday night’s election results proved that a majority of people in this country do not want war and genocide. Polling overwhelmingly showed that the war on Iran was one of the biggest motivating factors in voting. So why are we about to give the very people voters rejected an unprecedented $1.5 trillion budget to continue their reign of death and destruction? Why are we going to allow Congress to hand over the largest war budget in human history to weapons manufacturers and AI tech billionaires who work at the behest of known war criminals? In the next few weeks, Congress is set to pass what should be viewed as the deadliest piece of legislation of our time (the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)) or the country’s defense budget, as it is more commonly known.” (11/05/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/stop-trump-s-pentagon-budget