Category: Opinion

Source: The American Conservative
by Ted Galen Carpenter

“The U.S. should break from the old continent, not bully it.” (01/27/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/europes-delusions-of-power/

Source: Liberal Currents
by Nicholas Grossman

“Reddit was swamped with information about Minnesota, as anti-ICE posts dominated the main feed, and appeared in discussions of just about any topic. Knitting, biking, comic books, pop music, you name it. … Major media organizations have had a similar reaction. It’s the top story at many outlets, most of which have cast the people of Minneapolis-St. Paul as victims and the federal forces as aggressive invaders, rather than credulously repeating whatever the Trump administration says, or adopting a he said-she said frame that shies from identifying who is telling the truth and who isn’t.” (01/27/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/nonpolitical-media-has-been-flooded-with-reactions-to-alex-prettis-murder/

Source: Washington Post
by Jim Geraghty

“Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, according to Axios, told Republican donors last year he had warned President Donald Trump that his tariffs and economic policies were steering the GOP toward a midterm election disaster next fall. … As you might imagine, our mercurial president did not warmly welcome this warning. According to Cruz, Trump responded, ‘F— you, Ted.’ Somewhere, Beto O’Rourke and Jimmy Kimmel are reading that comment and conceding that they don’t always disagree with the president. If you tell donors a juicy tale about the president, sooner or later, that tale is going to leak. And while Trump no doubt enjoyed cursing out his 2016 GOP presidential primary rival, he’d be a fool if he’s still ignoring the warnings about the economy.” (01/27/26)

https://archive.is/WnJsG

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Leah Schroeder

“During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump made very clear his thoughts on the Panama Canal: ‘We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should have never been made, and Panama’s promise to us has been broken.’ Chief among his concerns was that China was in effect operating the waterway. ‘We didn’t give it to China. We gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back,’ Trump said. And almost exactly one year later, a court decision may make Trump’s dream a reality. The Supreme Court of Panama is currently finishing up deliberations that will determine whether CK Hutchison, a private Hong Kong company, will be allowed to continue running two ports on opposite ends of the Panama Canal — a decision imbued with significant geopolitical tensions.” (01/27/26)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/panama-canal-trump-china/

Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider

“If Greenland is the island rock that NATO could crash upon, NATO was already listing and in trouble. The trouble did not begin with Greenland, though Greenland could be the line crossed that exposes the critical condition of the alliance.” (01/27/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2026/01/26/what-if-nato-died/

Source: Fox News
by Liz Peek

“They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Some will say that Mamdani’s refusal to force homeless New Yorkers in from the cold comes from a good heart and that Kathy Hochul believes she’s doing the right thing for children. Frankly, I’m skeptical.” (01/27/26)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz-peek-here-one-only-thing-democrats-actually-care-about

Source: Expression
by staff

“The assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University last year sparked a wave of anger directed at scholars for their public comments following Kirk’s death. This reaction was faster, more targeted, and more severe than the response following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Relatively few professors faced significant consequences for comments about Floyd himself. On the other hand, Floyd’s death appears to have spawned a broader, more sustained sensitivity to race-related discourse.” (01/27/26)

https://expression.fire.org/p/how-backlash-over-george-floyd-and

Source: CounterPunch
by Nick Allison

“Watching Kristi Noem and other Republicans once again deny reality and twist the shooting into something it plainly is not would almost be impressive if it weren’t so preposterous. The level of mental gymnastics they are demanding of the public is staggering. When regime propagandists like Noem and Gregory Bovino go on television and tell the American people to accept the ‘official’ version of events, even when it directly contradicts what anyone with eyes and a functioning brain can clearly see across multiple videos from multiple angles, we’ve crossed into classic Orwellian territory, textbook doublespeak straight out of 1984.” (01/27/26)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/27/the-killing-of-alex-pretti-should-be-the-breaking-point/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Marcus M Witcher

“David Beito argues that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a self-serving politician who cared very little for the civil liberties of Americans. In FDR: A New Political Life, Beito challenges historians who explain away Roosevelt’s horrid record on civil rights as politically strategic (in the case of black Americans) or as an exception (in the case of Japanese internment). Instead, Beito contends that FDR’s glib view of civil liberties was core to his worldview.” (01/27/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-dark-side-of-fdr/

Source: Niskanen Center
by Neil Miller

“Where should you look for concrete boats? At the bottom of Olympic-sized rule pools. If you’d like to check out the rule pool for yourself, dive into the Department of Veterans Affairs’ recent request for proposals for a software system to send text messages. After two paragraphs of background, a potential vendor gets a handy list of 88 ‘Applicable Documents’ that they must comply with. This includes, in its entirety, The Privacy Act of 1974; six separate policy documents about ID badges; and a 2001 executive order titled Energy Efficient Standby Power Devices.” (01/27/26)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/spotting-concrete-boats-why-solicitation-sins-doom-contracts-to-struggle/