Source: The New Republic
by Matt Ford
“The public is coming around to the notion that the agency has to be eliminated. Fortunately, this administration and its Supreme Court allies have made that incredibly easy.” (01/15/26)
Source: The Dispatch
by Katharine B Stevens & Jenet Erickson
“‘[F]ree’ child care is one of the rare proposals to attract support across the political spectrum — from progressives concerned about affordability and gender equity to conservatives hoping to boost family formation and the labor force. It looks like a simple, popular solution to several hard problems at once. But political appeal is not the same as sound policy for young children. This sweeping plan to shift the care of America’s young children from their families to paid providers is wrong for children, not what most parents want, and undervalues the family’s irreplaceable role in early development.” (01/15/26)
Source: hypertext
by Brink Lindsey
“OK, so abundance has legs — but what kind of creature are they attached to? And where are those legs capable of taking us? What are the appropriate contours of the concept — we want an abundance of what, exactly? And what’s the social vision behind this desire for more — we want abundance for what?” (01/15/26)
https://hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/abundance-of-what-abundance-for-what
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“Our big, important job, before we can change our systems, is to figure out how to dampen dynamics that hasten humiliation or deny dignity. In other words, how do we help people keep their cool?” (01/15/26)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/the-dangerous-desire-for-recognition
Source: OtherWords
by Farrah Hassen
“On January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis—a city long enriched by immigrants and now under assault from thousands of ICE and Customs and Border Protection agents. Good, a 37-year-old poet and mother of three, was driving alongside her wife, Becca. They were observing an ICE raid in their community. ‘We stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns,’ said Becca. Sadly, at least three other people have been killed by ICE officers in the last five months, according to The Marshall Project. Among them was Silverio Villegas González, a 38-year-old father and cook originally from Mexico, who was fatally shot during a traffic stop in a Chicago suburb. Keith Porter Jr., a 43-year-old father of two (and, like Good, a US citizen) was shot and killed by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year’s Eve in Los Angeles.” (01/15/25)
Source: The Bulwark
by Mona Charen
“We’ve seen masked government agents roughing people up, shouting obscenities at them, trapping them on freezing cold roofs, smashing their car windows, shooting pastors with pepper balls, shoving women to the ground, separating mothers from their children, and killing an unarmed American citizen as she attempted to maneuver her car away, dog in the backseat and glove compartment overflowing with colorful stuffed animals. This is not just excessive anti-immigrant zeal. This is certainly not the normal push and pull between political philosophies or parties. This is the Republican party’s attempt to tyrannize the American people and transform our carefully balanced, rights-honoring republic into a thugocracy.” (01/15/26)
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Jack Hunter
“The president went from praising ‘the wars we never get into’ to seeing how many the US can get into, and prominent members of his base are eating it up.” (01/15/26)
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Joe Wolverton, II
“Fortunately, there is a means of exposing suspected terrorists to justice, even when they are hiding out in nations that refuse to extradite them to the United States for that purpose. Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution authorizes Congress to ‘grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal.’ This is a power that is rarely discussed and almost never exercised.” (01/15/26)
Source: The Daily Economy
by Jason Sorens
“Institutional investors own less than one percent of single-family homes, and their impact on prices is modest. New evidence suggests their presence may reduce rents.” (01/15/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/are-institutions-buying-up-single-family-homes/
Source: Washington Post
by US Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY)
“A bet on government action by a government actor is always a bet against the public interest.” (01/15/26)