Source: Bluegrass Institute
by Caleb O Brown, Liam Sigaud, & Edgar Orozco
“Indiana and Ohio didn’t fall apart when they pared back certificate of need programs. Their patients ended up with more choices and shorter drives.” (05/28/26)
Source: The Daily Economy
by Walter Donway
“AI enables Americans to navigate the legal system without attorneys, operationalizing the right to self-representation and expanding access to justice on an unprecedented scale. Can courts cope?” (05/28/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/ai-enters-the-courtroom-how-chatbots-are-reshaping-litigation/
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen
“The increasing arc of instability running across Africa today resembles less a series of isolated crises than a single, widening belt of state collapse, insurgency, proxy war, and foreign intervention stretching from the Atlantic coast to the Red Sea. From Mali and Niger to Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, and the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the same themes recur with grim consistency: weak post-colonial states, ethnic and religious fragmentation, weapons flows across porous borders, foreign meddling, and Washington repeatedly insisting it can manage extraordinarily complex societies with bombs, military trainers, intelligence partnerships, and favored clients. It cannot.” (05/28/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/washington-and-africa-are-intertwining-their-chaos
Source: Liberal Currents
by Lucy
‘The strength and reliability of a government’s word is a critical factor in its ability to make the deals and exert the leverage which allow it to pursue an agenda at home and abroad. By altering expectations of the future, both the government and opposition can affect how much credibility the government has. This opens several options for undermining the current regime, but also carries danger for the next Democratic president. In the here and now, I see no reason to avoid using our advantage.” (05/28/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/credibility-and-consequences/
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Madsen Pirie
“There are many ways in which we can make it easier for families to care for members needing social care by giving support at home instead of in care homes. Practical support measures might include direct payments and personal budgets. We could give families control over a care budget that lets them hire flexible, personalized support, such as a known carer for specific hours, rather than fitting into rigid council-commissioned services. Technology can help with smart home adaptations such as telecare alarms, medication dispensers, fall sensors, and voice-activated devices to extend independence and safety at home, reducing the need for round-the-clock supervision.” (05/28/26)
Source: Fox News
by Gregg Jarrett
“Joe Biden’s elaborate game of hide-and-seek over his suspected theft of highly classified government documents may finally be coming to an end. The Department of Justice announced, ‘Ready or not, here I come!’ So, the former president scampered to a federal court on Tuesday, begging for protection to prevent the public release of audio recordings and transcripts in which he is known to have incriminated himself. Asking a judge to effectively cover up evidence of crimes — whether charged or not — is a fanciful proposition. The recordings were obtained lawfully in 2023 by then-special counsel Robert Hur. Hence, Biden can no longer legitimately claim a Fourth Amendment privacy interest in them. Once they entered the public and prosecutorial domain, they were stripped of privacy protections.” (05/27/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gregg-jarrett-release-biden-tapes-let-americans-hear-truth
Source: Independent Institute
by K Lloyd Billingsley
“Candidates for Congress, governor, and various state offices promise to make California affordable again, build new housing, fight the ‘special interests,’ and so forth. Missing in the rhetoric are the powerful agencies that operate beyond the reach of the voters. Consider, for example, the California Air Resources Board.” (05/28/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/05/28/california-candidates-ignore-unelected-agencies/
Source: EconLog
by Jon Murphy
“There’s a common trope among people who have collateralized debt that, until the debt is cleared, they never truly own their property. For example, the bank holds the mortgage, and if mortgage payments aren’t made, the bank can seize the house. The trope says that the ‘pay to stay’ nature of the loan means the bank truly owns the house, not the person who purchased it using their mortgage. Despite how common this trope is, it is incorrect. It fundamentally misunderstands the legal nature of ownership.” (05/28/26)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/the-bank-doesnt-own-your-house
Sourc: Understanding AI
by Kai Williams
“Last week, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 years. … It’s arguably the first time that an AI system has found a proof resolving a major open conjecture. That’s impressive, but I don’t view it as a radical break from the previous trajectory of AI progress in mathematics.” (05/28/26)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/openais-milestone-math-breakthrough
Source: USA Today
by Dace Potas
“Republicans who have tried to walk a careful line with President Donald Trump are having a rough stretch in primary season. Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy and Texas Sen. John Cornyn both lost to Trump-backed challengers despite years of attempting, in different ways, to accommodate the president politically. But accommodation is rarely enough with Trump. Republican senators hoping selective loyalty will protect them should pay attention to what happened to Cassidy and Cornyn: If Trump decides you are insufficiently loyal, you are replaceable no matter how often you vote with him. Republican senators deciding whether and when to break with Trump should take that lesson seriously. The time to do it is when you still hold power, not once you’ve become a lame duck. The former requires courage. The latter does not.” (05/28/26)