Category: Opinion

Source: Persuasion
by Rashmee Roshan Lall

“There’s only one winner of the Iran deal—the country that made it happen.” (06/26/26)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/pakistan-has-never-looked-so-important

Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye

“A new USPS rulemaking will prevent mail-in ballots in states that won’t comply with the administration’s demands.” (06/26/26)

https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/trumps-latest-election-power-grab

Source: The American Prospect
by Naomi Bethune & Ryan Cooper

“Thursday was a decision day at the Supreme Court, and the American people got to enjoy the familiar experience of waiting on tenterhooks yet again to see which rights were going to be deleted this time. The answer was residency rights for hundreds of thousands of nonwhite immigrants. The most important of Thursday’s decisions was also the worst one: Mullin v. Doe, which overturned a lower-court order barring the Trump regime from removing Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from hundreds of thousands of nonwhite refugees. For months now, Haitian and Syrian recipients of the TPS program have been in limbo, with their legal status being held up by fragile pauses in lower-court rulings.” [editor’s note: shrewd commentary or whining nonsense? You be the judge – SAT] (06/26/26)

https://prospect.org/2026/06/26/rogue-supreme-court-blesses-ethnic-cleansing-immigration-tps-trump-immigration-ice/

Source: The UnPopulist
by Andy Craig

“A few years ago, court packing was a fringe idea with no realistic prospects. President Biden’s commission on Supreme Court reform pointedly declined to endorse adding seats, and no realistic vote count could reach 51 in the Senate—not only for expansion itself, but for nuking the legislative filibuster to bring it to a vote at all. That is no longer the case.” (06/26/26)

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-unfortunate-necessity-of-court

Source: The Daily Economy
by Vance Ginn

“Global initiatives promise justice through economic restraint. In practice, they would make societies poorer and opportunity scarcer.” (06/26/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-poverty-of-the-uns-degrowth-agenda/

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joshua Mawhorter

“It is not uncommon for people to conflate victory and liberty with centralization and inflation. Even in the case of the American Revolution—which was relatively decentralized—many at the time, and others since, argued that monetary inflation, standing armies and a state-centric approach to war, consolidation under a centralized national government, direct taxation, and central banking were all necessary to achieve victory and independence. The not-too-subtle implication is that liberty depends on big government.” (06/26/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/myth-nationalist-victory-articles-confederation-and-bank-north-america

Source: Liberal Currents
by Jake Pitre

“Larry Ellison’s growing influence in tech, media, and politics embodies our new age of oligarchic control.” (06/26/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/welcome-to-gilded-age-2-0/

Source: Cato Institute
by Matthew Cavedon

https://www.cato.org/commentary/justice-matters-jury-service-gives-extraordinary-power-ordinary-people

Source: American Greatness
by Thaddeus G McCotter

“By statute, the approval process of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to determine the safety and effectiveness of a new drug. If both requirements are met, the new drug is approved. The process usually takes roughly a decade. Most people would reasonably assume the lengthy approval process is due to the need to prove a new drug is safe for use by patients. But the years-long lag between a drug’s submission for approval and its arrival on the market often stems from the process of assessing its effectiveness. The easiest way to think about it is this: determining safety protects patients; determining effectiveness protects consumers.” (06/27/26)

https://amgreatness.com/2026/06/27/save-american-lives-and-prosperity-by-cutting-the-fda-bureaucracy/

Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille

“Leading up to our Independence Day party, my wife asked whether she should buy us T-shirts celebrating America’s 250th anniversary or stick with what we already have. We went with our existing garments. When the red, white, and blue string lights are up and the Gadsden flag is flying out front, my son will don his free speech shirt, my wife will wear one with USA printed across it, and my shirt will show an image of George Washington crossing the Delaware and text reading: ‘Americans. Willing to cross a frozen river to kill you. In your sleep. On Christmas. Not kidding, we’ve done it.’ It will be festive. But not everybody shares our enthusiasm for celebrating the nation’s birthday and the liberty at the core of its founding philosophy.” (06/26/26)

https://reason.com/2026/06/26/dont-let-the-countrys-wet-blankets-ruin-independence-day/