Category: Opinion

Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson

“Once again, Mr. ‘Art of the Deal’ underperforms his predecessors.” (07/24/26)

https://thedispatch.com/article/saudi-arabia-nuclear-deal-trump/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Thomas Savidge

‘The pandemic exposed weaknesses that had accumulated over decades.” (07/24/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/getting-unemployment-insurance-back-to-work/

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Charles Goyette

“In what is the monetary equivalent of tearing down statues, the British have decided they must replace iconic images on their currency. Out of an apparent fear of offending the stampede of human beings who have chosen to abandon their own homelands to live in Great Britain, the historic images on British currency of people instrumental in making that nation what it is, have been forced to yield to images of animals. Foxes, badgers, and hedgehogs are in the ascendency. Our problem in the United States is somewhat different. It appears that the iconography of our currency will be made to climax in images of Donald Trump.” (07/24/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/our-currency-icons-and-americas-national-character/

Source: American Greatness
by Jordan Schachtel

“The AI Kill Switch Act, introduced Thursday by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas), seeks to hand the government unprecedented authority to order private companies to throttle, suspend, or shut down products in “kill switch” fashion, purely on their own arbitrary determination, with fines up to $20 million a day. Behind this carefully staged rollout is a fanatical coalition that looks like a broad consensus, but it is mostly one funding network with an arsenal of astroturf organizations at its disposal.” (07/24/26)

https://amgreatness.com/2026/07/24/the-manufactured-bipartisan-push-for-an-ai-kill-switch/

Source: Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

“President Donald Trump’s renewed escalation of the war on Iran is dangerous and needs to be immediately reversed. Investors in the stock market are often advised to admit they bought an investment lemon and cut their losses by selling, thus avoiding further disaster by riding the stock to the bottom and vainly hoping it will rebound. Given human nature, many investors struggle with the first part: admitting they made a mistake. Politicians involved in losing wars often exhibit similar behavior. And President Trump, never wanting to be labeled a ‘loser,’ is particularly prone to such psychological denial.” (07/24/26)

https://www.independent.org/article/2026/07/24/iran-war-cut-and-run/

Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman

“Why the world economy is still at risk from the Iran debacle.” (07/24/26)

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/quagmire-of-the-vanities

Source: The American Conservative
by Andrew Day

“ver the past week, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has faced his biggest political crisis since this time last year. And just as they did back then, Western analysts and media outlets have concocted a pro-Zelensky narrative that downplays evident political dysfunction and misrepresents the struggles for power that are actually driving events.” (07/24/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/zelenskys-military-overhaul-explodes-western-fantasies/

Source: Exiled Policy
by Jayon Pye

“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to condition disaster relief grants on whether states change how they conduct elections. It’s another glaring constitutional overreach into an area where states have typically had control, unless otherwise specified by Congress. Earlier this month, DHS issued guidance as part of its funding opportunity for the Homeland Security Grant Program. DHS is requiring states that accept the grant funding to adopt a series of election administration measures.” (07/24/26)

https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/dhs-ties-homeland-security-grants

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Qamar CheemaMir & Ahmad Murtiza

“For decades, Iran has sought to diminish America’s military presence and political influence in the Middle East. Yet some ambitions carry within them the seeds of their own undoing. The very policies intended to push out the United States have instead strengthened the rationale for Washington’s continued engagement. Before the erosion of its regional axis, Iran based its security doctrine on forward defense, projecting influence beyond its borders to keep threats at bay. However, what Tehran regarded as a defensive strategy, the Persian Gulf states perceived as an expansionist bid for regional primacy. As a result, they deepened their security ties with Washington, making the U.S. military presence more indispensable to Gulf security rather than less.” (07/24/26)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-gulf-states/

Source: Informed Comment
by Yajov M Rabkin

“Montreal (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – ‘If the state sends people, soldiers, for the honor of the state, and they kill people, is that permissible? It is plain murder. They [the government] incite murder. This is what they do. They wage wars not to save lives, but only for the honor of the state. Certainly, this is not new. So, is this permitted? Just to raise the status of the state or something else?’ These are not the words of a left-wing anti-Israeli activist from an Ivy League campus. They were spoken on July 19, 2026, by the 96-year-old Rabbi Dov Lando, a senior member of the Council of Torah Sages in Israel.” (07/24/26)

https://www.juancole.com/2026/07/israel-crisis-threat.html