Source: Expression
by David L Hudson Jr.
“When socialists, anarchists, and other political dissidents opposed the war effort, Woodrow Wilson had their movements crushed.” (12/02/25)
https://expression.fire.org/p/politics-of-dissent-during-world
Source: Washington Post
by Marian L Tupy and Gale L Pooley
“U.S. consumers spent about 17 percent of disposable personal income on food in 1960; by 2019, that share had fallen to 9.5 percent, driven largely by more affordable food at home. Even after the inflation spike in recent years, Americans last year devoted 10.4 percent of disposable income to food, still roughly half the share common in the mid-20th century and lower than in most other countries. That is a textbook case of Engel’s law: As incomes rise, the share of income spent on food declines.
What produced these gains is not mysterious.” (12/02/25)
Source: The Intercept
by Nick Turse
“Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is under increasing fire for a double-tap strike, first reported by The Intercept in early September, in which the U.S. military killed two survivors of the Trump administration’s initial boat strike in the Caribbean on September 2. The Washington Post recently reported that Hegseth personally ordered the follow-up attack, giving a spoken order ‘to kill everybody.’ Multiple military legal experts, lawmakers, and now confidential sources within the government who spoke with The Intercept say Hegseth’s actions could result in the entire chain of command being investigated for a war crime or outright murder.” (12/02/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/02/hegseth-boat-strikes-war-crime-venezuela/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Laura Williams
“The most common cancer in America is also one of the most preventable — if people simply had access to effective sunscreen. We spend $9 billion a year treating the cancerous effects of sun damage, not to mention the billions we spend to soothe the sun’s more minor effects. So many people get skin cancer that the statistics aren’t even reportable to cancer registries. But nearly all skin cancer is the result of sunlight and UV exposure, which means it is preventable. But that’s the (often greasy) rub: in the United States, sunscreen is locked inside a bureaucratic vault built in 1938, guarded by the Food and Drug Administration as if it were an experimental medical treatment.” (12/02/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/burned-by-bureaucracy-why-other-countries-have-better-sunscreen/
Source: The Federalist
by Hans Mahncke
“The proposed Ukraine peace deal has shaken the political class that insisted escalation with Moscow was the only acceptable course. How, they ask, can Russia possibly walk away with concessions? Part of this is simply material: Russia has ground out battlefield gains and retains the manpower and resources to sustain the war indefinitely. But that is only one dimension of it. The fuller answer reaches back long before the first tanks crossed the border. It began a decade earlier, when a small clique of Washington insiders decided Russia would be the villain in every story and Ukraine the instrument to make it so. From the 2014 Kiev coup to the Russia-collusion hoax to the Ukraine impeachment fiasco, the same actors built a narrative architecture that rewired the entire geopolitical landscape and made war not just possible but almost inevitable.” (12/02/25)
Source: Reason
by Eric Boehm
“One danger of nationalism, Friedrich Hayek warned in 1960, was the ‘bridge’ it provides ‘from conservatism to collectivism.’ ‘To think in terms of ‘our’ industry or resource,’ he wrote, ‘is only a short step away from demanding that these national assets be directed in the national interest.’ That’s a short step that President Donald Trump has eagerly taken. In the first nine months of his second term in office, the president has overseen a giant government leap into the boardrooms of strategically important businesses. … Trump would not be the first leader to believe that greater state control of key industries and economic sectors would translate into better growth and stronger security. But from Soviet Russia to modern China, the best parallels come from authoritarian regimes rather than American presidencies.” (for publication 01/26)
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Thomas Eddlem
“At its base, economic fascism is a form of capitalism, not socialism. It has always been this way, though many leading promoters of free markets today wish it wasn’t. But fascism has native-born citizenship in capitalism, in private property, and not in state property socialism. Fascism’s private property DNA can’t be denied. There are many words to describe statism generally, as well as words to describe our capitalist system that has been corrupted by parasitic billionaires. These include cronyism, fascism, corporatism, plutocracy, and kleptocracy (this latter one, admittedly, can apply to socialism or capitalism). We don’t have to shoe-horn socialism into the role.” (12/02/25)
Source: EconLog
by Tyler Watts & Joel Watts
“The economics of housing affordability is very straightforward. If prices have gone up, either demand has shifted right, supply has shifted left, or some combination of the two. While supply constraints are the major culprit in the affordability problem, we want to acknowledge that buyers are partly responsible for the market shifts that we’ve seen — it takes two to tango. Housing is a normal good with a long-run income elasticity of demand close to one, meaning housing demand rises in tandem with household income growth. To bring prices down, we need builders to shift the housing supply curve ‘out and right’ by a larger factor than buyers are shifting the demand curve.” (12/02/25)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/barriers-to-affordable-housing/
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“The Trump administration’s drive to end the war in Ukraine – initially under a plan that favored Moscow’s terms – has hit a big speed bump: American allies in Europe are demanding that Russia be held accountable for war crimes, such as the abduction of Ukrainian children and the execution of prisoners of war. For Ukrainians, real peace demands at least truth-telling if not justice for such violations of international law. For Europe, too, any deal that wipes the slate clean for Russia ‘would be sowing the seeds of the next round of aggression and the next invasion,’ said Michael McGrath, the European commissioner for justice and democracy. ‘We cannot give up on the rights of the victims of Russian aggression and Russian crimes,’ he told Politico.” (12/02/25)
Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher
“A president killing boaters on specious claims of ‘narcoterrorism’ while pardoning major drug traffickers should be a major scandal.” (12/02/25)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/02/trumps-hypocrisy-drug-trafficking/