Source: The Nation
by Chris Lehmann
“An increasingly unpopular Trump lurched from plodding teleprompter readings to gothic MAGA fantasies in his long-winded speech.” (02/25/26)
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/donald-trump-sotu-2026/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Corey A DeAngelis
“The Atlantic can publish as many cautionary stories as it likes, but the data, the Supreme Court precedents, and common sense remain firmly on the side of parental authority.” (02/25/26)
Source: Antiwar.com
by Jeffrey Robertson
“Since Trump’s election, Seoul’s analysts asked questions. Commentators voiced unease – and ‘Liberation Day’ proved their concerns well founded as the U.S. imposed a series of dynamic tariffs driven by social media and personal sentiment. Yet the depth of ties between Washington and Seoul led many to judge the tariffs difficult, but not insurmountable. Somewhere between Venezuela and Iran, attitudes started to change.” (02/25/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/jeffrey_robertson/2026/02/24/watching-uncle-sam-from-seoul
Source: Washington Post
by Theodore R Johnson
“The Supreme Court deliberated for months before moving to end the president’s unprecedented use of one tariff power, only for him to put a different tariff power to unprecedented use almost immediately. The court operates on a calendar of months and years; the executive, on a timetable of days and hours. The Constitution made the branches equal in power, not in speed. That asymmetry is a natural feature of the system. But in the hands of defiant presidents, it becomes a loophole readily exploited and prevents judicial decisions from being meaningfully implemented.” (02/25/26)
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Connor Echols
“Will he or won’t he? The president offered little insight, but built a case for potential Mideast escalation if he chose to do it.” (02/25/26)
Source: Quillette
by Brian Stewart
“Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield’s 1978 book The Spirit of Liberalism is a penetrating defence of liberal principles by a conservative political philosopher, but it also reproaches liberals’ failure to resist an onslaught from the radical Left. ‘From having been the aggressive doctrine of vigorous, spirited men, liberalism has become hardly more than a trembling in the presence of illiberalism,’ Mansfield writes. ‘Who today is called a liberal for strength and confidence in defense of liberty?’ More than a half-century later [sic], New York Times columnist Ezra Klein furnishes a good example of the spineless tendency Mansfield identified.” (02/24/26)
https://quillette.com/2026/02/24/ezra-kleins-feeble-liberalism-charlie-kirk-mahmoud-khalil/
Source: The UnPopulist
by Joe Bishop-Henchman
“The administration’s rapid pivot to Section 122 reflects necessity, not legal strength. It rests on redefining a ‘balance-of-payments crisis’ beyond recognition, disregarding its own recent legal positions, and assuming that courts will decline to examine economic realities too closely. That is a fragile foundation for a policy affecting hundreds of billions of dollars in commerce and millions of consumers. And it’s possible he will get away with it. Ultimately, this episode underscores a constitutional reality that no statutory workaround can erase: trade policy belongs to Congress. And unless Congress takes it back, it will not be able to put a definitive end to his tariff mischief.” (02/24/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-has-other-means-to-make-tariff
Source: Town Hall
by Americans for Prosperity
“When the Founders wrote ‘Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness’ into the Declaration of Independence, they weren’t guaranteeing comfort, equality of outcome, or a government-managed society. They were making a bolder claim that became the foundation of the American Dream: that people could build meaningful lives if government protected liberty and then got out of the way. That idea still matters today. At its core, the phrase shows trust in the American people. The Founders believed individuals, given freedom and responsibility, could make better choices for their lives than distant officials ever could. Perhaps more important is the idea that, as adults who are created equal, we have inherent dignity that must be recognized by our government. When this dignity is recognized, we can truly thrive as humans and give our best to our families, communities, and workplaces.” (02/25/26)
Source: Liberal Currents
by Ryan C Smith
“Free and democratic society is not possible when the kings of oil and gas can threaten our stability, pollute our information systems, and poison our politics.” (02/25/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/carbon-and-the-new-imperialism/
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Matthew Guariglia
“The Secretary of Defense has given an ultimatum to the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in an attempt to bully them into making their technology available to the U.S. military without any restrictions for their use. Anthropic should stick by their principles and refuse to allow their technology to be used in the two ways they have publicly stated they would not support: autonomous weapons systems and surveillance.” (02/24/26)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/tech-companies-shouldnt-be-bullied-doing-surveillance