Category: Opinion

Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman

“This is about ideology and Trumpian fealty, not America’s interests.” (09/25/25)

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-is-trump-bailing-out-argentina

Source: The Dispatch
by Paul Matzko

“he temporary suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show by ABC after a threat from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has stoked a firestorm of protest on free speech grounds. Yet although a Trump-appointed, conservative Republican is pulling the trigger, it was actually progressives who gave Carr both of the regulatory weapons he is using in an attempt to censor critics of the Trump administration and its allies: the public interest standard and the news distortion doctrine.” (09/25/25)

https://thedispatch.com/article/fcc-public-interest-standard-broadcast-speech/

Source: Common Dreams
by Caitlin Scialla

“The United Nations is often regarded as the global community’s foremost symbol of peace and problem solving. Each September, world leaders gather in New York City for the annual General Assembly, a weeklong summit that is framed as the pinnacle of diplomacy and international cooperation. This year’s 80th session opened on Tuesday, September 23, under the theme: ‘Better together, 80 years and more for peace, development, and human rights.’ While the 2025 United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) boasts a laundry list of urgent global issues, the question of Palestine is poised to take center stage. Against the backdrop of deepening humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, and a recent wave of announcements by many Western countries formally recognizing Palestinian statehood, the world is watching closely to see how global leaders will respond.” (09/25/25)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/unga-israeli-bias

Source: Understanding AI

“I read Eliezer Yudkowsky’s new book, ‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.'” (09/25/25)

https://www.understandingai.org/p/the-case-for-ai-doom-isnt-very-convincing

Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow

“urope once dominated the world. Even nominally democratic, Christian states ruled brutally to enforce their rule over distant lands and peoples. Today the roles have flipped. The grand European powers, or Old Europe, as some dismissively call them, are now little more than decrepit satrapies of the U.S., submissively accepting Washington’s political direction and economic demands.” (09/25/25)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/europe-surrenders-to-trump/

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jake Scott

“France and Britain have both built welfare systems that may have begun life as humane responses to social need, but have since ossified into fiscal traps. Nowhere is this clearer than in pensions. In France, retirees enjoy not only earlier retirement than their European peers but also far larger state transfers, a problem that has been brewing since the end of the Second World War. In Britain, this problem goes back even further, with a system that predates even the legacy of the National Health Service, grown from roots in the Liberal reforms of the 1910s. The result is a perverse inversion: ‘over-65s now have higher average incomes than the working-age population …'” (09/25/25)

https://fee.org/articles/intergenerational-plunder/

Source: Cato Institute
by Jeffrey A Singer

“President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced Sept. 22 what they called ‘bold actions to tackle autism epidemic.’ It’s certainly bold to label the rise in autism diagnoses as an ‘epidemic,’ considering that the definition and diagnostic criteria have broadened from autism only to include autism spectrum disorder, a broader category affecting more people. Also, increased awareness and screening among clinicians, educators and parents have resulted in more children being diagnosed. However, the issue is real and requires investigation into its causes, prevention and treatment. But introducing government bureaucrats’ biases into the research process is not only unhelpful – it could distort the research agenda and hinder progress. Let scientific research work. Keep federal government out of it.” (09/24/25)

https://www.cato.org/commentary/trump-kennedy-overreach-tylenol-dont-go-far-enough-drug-regulations

Source: Semafor
by David Weigel

“Back in August, a number of Democrats anonymously told Axios that their constituents wanted to see them resisting the Trump administration more forcefully, even if they risked getting physically hurt while doing so. Democrats protesting ICE and comparing them to fascist police forces are working in that environment. I wouldn’t expect that to change. That’s because they view themselves as operating in the tradition of other resistance movements, and are betting that voters will see the masked agents of the state as the aggressors.” (09/24/25)

https://www.semafor.com/article/09/24/2025/democrats-dig-in-on-and-often-politically-benefit-from-protesting-ice

Source: The Findings Substack
by Paul Rosenberg

“Not long ago I had a pleasant and quite open discussion with a fairly well-known European politician. This wasn’t a top-level EU operator, but widely known all the same. That discussion brought me to the core of the dominant philosophy among the continent’s enlightened classes. What shocked me was how thin it was. If you didn’t know better, you might expect high school kids to rip it apart.” (09/24/25)

https://thefindings.substack.com/p/the-eus-paper-thin-philosophy

Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine

“The opening scene of Kamala Harris’[s] campaign memoir sums up the entire disaster of the Biden-Harris era: two selfish narcissists focused entirely on their own needs and insecurities, trapped together in an alliance with no regard for each other and no concern for the American people. It is the morning Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race on Sunday, July 21. Harris is in her kitchen watching the Cooking Channel and making pancakes for her grandnieces when the president calls from his Rehoboth Beach house in Delaware, where he’d hunkered down with his family after his disastrous debate performance. ‘I’ve decided I’m dropping out,’ Biden tells her, promising to endorse her as his successor.” (09/24/25)

https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/opinion/kamala-harris-blames-biden-dems-and-everything-but-herself-we-simply-deserved-a-better-candidate/