Source: The American Conservative
by Jude Russo
“I’m in a generous mood. Let’s say the newest scheme works: The latest iteration of attempted economic strangulation causes state collapse in Iran. I remain skeptical, but in my expansive goodwill, I’ll go ahead and grant the premise for the sake of argument. I’ll even grant that it happens on a manageable political timescale, oh, six months or so. What then?” (09/15/26)
Source: Washington Monthly
by Anne Kim
“Written in the blunt and acerbic style that defined his political persona, The Hard Path to Unity is an unsparing and timely indictment of the ascendant left that all liberals would do well to read—and heed. Left unchallenged, Frank warns, left-wing dominance of the Democratic Party will doom it to political failure, thereby leaving Trumpist populism unchecked. Through its insistence on unrealistic ideals (and its ironic intolerance of differing viewpoints), Frank argues that progressives risk losing everything they purport to champion.” (09/15/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/09/15/barney-franks-last-harsh-warning-to-the-left/
Source: Bluegrass Institute
by Joseph Verruni
“The data center battle is about more than money, but one thing is clear: There are potentially massive financial benefits to individuals both as ratepayers and homeowners.” (09/14/26)
Source: American Greatness
by Victor Davis Hanson
“Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney now believes he is more than just the Western foil to Donald Trump and his MAGA movement—he is the global one. Accordingly, he seems determined to demonstrate to the world how to stand up to Donald Trump, to force Trump to lose the midterms, and to hurt the U.S. economy to such a degree that Trump will never again bully other nations. So, at the eleventh hour, Carney stormed out of an apparently completed tariff deal with the United States that would have privileged Canada over almost all of America’s other trading partners. … Carney claimed that American proposals stripped away Canadian sovereignty and quashed Canadian culture, particularly French-Canadian culture. Yet he has not released the documents detailing the bilateral offers he rejected.” (09/15/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/09/15/the-fantasy-house-of-mark-carney/
Source: Liberalism.org
by Jacob Grier
“Restrictions and prohibitions are now affecting the demand for nicotine in the same ways that are found in markets for illicit drugs.” (09/14/26)
Source: Liberal Currents
by AD Blair
“Police apologists are often quick to minimize revelations of corruption and misconduct by law enforcement as ‘just a few bad apples.’ But the whole point of that adage is that a single bad apple can ruin all the other apples in the barrel. For the last 11 years and counting America has seen one of its two major political parties, its federal government, and much of the rest of society infested by a very large and very rotten spray-tanned apple. And the rot has spread far and wide.” (09/15/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/americas-moral-rot-in-the-age-of-trumpism-and-how-to-reverse-it/
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“My main source of information on the war is the Institute for the Study of War website, which provides detailed daily reports based on satellite evidence of who is doing what where, official statements from both sides, and posts by Russian milbloggers. ISW is openly on the Ukrainian side, reports statements by sources in the Ukrainian military straight, statements from the Russian side more skeptically. … There are three different ways of interpreting the situation with different implications for the future of the war.” (09/14/26)
Source: Independent Institute
by Kristian Fors
“Examining California’s Proposed Billionaire Wealth Tax.” (09/14/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/09/14/flawed-research-and-real-economic-damage/
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
‘In an election year when Democrats are featuring wannabe communists, why are Republicans demonstrating a similar lack of sanity?” (09/14/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/09/14/minus-the-five-grand/
Source: The American Prospect
by Whitney Curry Wimbish & David Dayen
“The statement from former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon that AI ‘could kill us by the end of the decade’ has triggered the most hostile setting for sound public policy: mass panic. Events since Coxon’s viral comments have only deepened the frenzy. A senior employee at Anthropic, Evan Hubinger, backed Coxon up (‘We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!’) and estimated the chances that AI could cause human extinction at more than 10 percent. Late last week, Anthropic said it had halted ‘several efforts by scientists’ whose research could have developed biological weapons, The New York Times reported; on Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI’s artificial intelligence agents attacked the software service RubyGems two months before they attacked Hugging Face.” (09/15/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/09/15/artificial-intelligence-open-ai-anthropic-congressional-democrats/