Category: Opinion

Source: Mother Jones
by Tim Murphy

“Musk v. Altman is a fight over how much power is too much in Silicon Valley.” (04/29/26)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/elon-musk-sam-altman-openai-trial/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Peter C Earle

“The idea that artificial intelligence could usher in a ‘post-money’ world — and that such a world would also render firms obsolete — rests on a misunderstanding of what firms are and why they exist. Even if, for the sake of argument, we accept the highly implausible premise that money would disappear beneath an AI/robotics explosion of superabundance, it does not follow that firms would disappear with it. Firms are not artifacts or by-products of monetary exchange; they are organizational responses to coordination problems, uncertainty, and the costs of markets.” (04/29/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/why-ai-wont-kill-the-firm/

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Rory Mir

“If you want to overthrow Big Tech, you’ll need Section 230. The paradigm shift being built with the Open Social Web can put communities back in control of social media infrastructure, and finally end our dependency on enshitified corporate giants. But while these incumbents can overcome multimillion-dollar lawsuits, the small host revolution could be picked off one by one without the protections offered by 230.” (04/28/26)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/open-social-web-needs-section-230-survive

Source: Desultory Scribblings
by Tyler Harris

“Because politicians win by working their base into a lather, there currently exist within American politics no incentives to be wrong with decency. Every opponent must be an enemy, every disagreement a threat. I helped in my small way to create that mess; I’m resolved to help in a similarly small way to fix it. This doesn’t mean no longer speaking to what I believe to be good policy even on questions where bad policy is non-catastrophic to our republic. It does mean not strategically catastrophizing them, and not vilifying their adherents. … the only way to get incentives pushing back in that right direction is for enough people to decide they don’t care about differences on policy when those differences do not radically reshape the world.” (04/28/26)

https://tylerjohnharris.substack.com/p/make-politics-inconsequential-again

Source: Town Hall
by EJ Antoni, Ph.D.

“The United Arab Emirates (UAE) shocked the world on Tuesday when it announced that it’d be leaving the world’s largest oil cartel this week. While there’s no immediate impact for the US, in the long run it’ll mean lower gasoline prices and much-needed relief for American consumers. For decades, the UAE has been part of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which has artificially limited global oil supplies and thereby put upward pressure on prices. … The idea behind the cartel was simple: gather all the major oil-producing countries into a room and agree to act like a monopoly, thereby maximizing profits at the expense of the rest of the world. But as other nations began discovering and pumping more oil of their own, it became increasingly difficult for a dozen or so countries to control global prices.” (04/29/26)

https://townhall.com/columnists/ej-antoni/2026/04/29/the-opec-cartel-crackup-n2675213

Source: The UnPopulist
by Berny Belvedere

“An orchestrated chorus is trying to discredit objections to a corruption-ridden project that has bulldozed every required procedure.” (04/28/26)

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/maga-exploits-shooting-to-justify

Source: Rutherford Institute
by John & Nisha Whitehead

“In the wake of the reported assassination attempt on President Trump, the Trump administration has wasted no time advancing a dangerous narrative: that criticism of the president — especially criticism labeling him authoritarian or fascist — is not just wrong, but responsible for violence. The implication is as chilling as it is unconstitutional: if you criticize the government too harshly, you may be to blame for what happens next. Taken to its logical conclusion, the government’s argument is this: criticism fuels anger, and anger leads to violence against the Trump administration. Which means the solution, in the government’s eyes, is simple: silence the criticism — but only when it is leveled at the Trump administration.” (04/28/26)

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/founding_felons_jefferson_would_be_on_a_watch_list_todayyou_might_be_next

Source: Los Angeles Times
by Alex Padilla & Brian Lemek

“More than 158 million Americans cast a ballot in the 2024 election, and nearly one in three did so by mail. Nothing about that should be controversial because voting by mail is safe, secure and deeply rooted in American history. On March 31, just days after casting his own ballot by mail in a Florida special election, President Trump signed an executive order attacking vote by mail and absentee voting nationwide. … Immediately after Trump’s executive order was announced, more than 20 states and multiple organizations challenged it in court. They are right to do so, and we believe these states will prevail for the same reason the courts rejected the president’s earlier attempts to seize authority over our elections. Because the Constitution is clear: States and Congress set the rules for federal elections — not the president.” (04/28/26)

https://archive.is/eFgF3

Source: UnHerd
by Ryan Zickgraf

“The Right keeps waiting for the Weather Underground to shoot at President Trump. Not literally, not the specific organization — Bill Ayers is a comfortably retired professor in his 80s — but the type: the black-masked antifa supersoldier; the DSA chapter secretary with a tote bag full of Marx, oat milk, and bolt cutters; the blue-haired radical with a ‘Fuck ICE’ bicep tattoo; the leader of a trans gun club called ‘Trigger Warning.’ But we keep getting a very different type of would-be assassin: not the antifa militant from central casting, nor even the Proud Boy thug — but the deranged centrist. … ‘Centrist terrorism’ is, of course, not a serious analytical category. Yet neither, in these cases, is the bogeyman trumpeted on the Right as ‘radical leftist terrorism.'” (04/28/26)

https://archive.is/G5NvP

Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ilya Somin

“Conservative legal commentator Gregg Nunziata outlines reasons why conservatives should reject broad views of executive power.” (04/28/26)

https://reason.com/volokh/2026/04/28/rethinking-conservative-approaches-to-executive-power/