Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher
“The clamor to dump the two Democratic leaders after their colossal midterm victories makes no sense.” (11/10/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/11/10/hakeem-jeffries-is-not-old-and-chuck-schumer-is-not-done/
Source: Washington Sun
by Jade Lozada
“Across the country, data centers are going up in low-income communities. Fourteen percent of data centers are located within opportunity zones, according to a report from the nonprofit National Community Reinvestment Coalition. Among approved, permitted and under-construction data center projects, 17.3% are in the tax-incentivized zones. In total, 93 proposed data centers and 78 operating data centers are located in an opportunity zone, according to the nonprofit environmental research organization FracTracker Alliance. Data center operators can use opportunity zones to cut down their tax bills like any other business, making the program a potential boon for investors seeking tax benefits to support the industry’s rapid build-out. But political fault lines are emerging over whether data center projects fulfill the purpose of the tax break as investing in opportunity zones becomes more attractive than ever for data center companies.” (11/10/26)
Source: Fox News
by Riley Gaines
“I’ll admit it. Tuesday night was disappointing. I expected Republicans to lose more seats than they flipped. History suggested as much. But I certainly didn’t expect the results to be quite that bad. Still, buried beneath the headlines celebrating Democratic victories was a rather inconvenient development for the political left. Americans may have voted to elect Democrats, but that doesn’t mean they’ve suddenly developed an appetite for the progressive social agenda again. In fact, on one of the most contentious cultural issues of the last several years, voters delivered a remarkably consistent message: Keep men out of women’s sports. In Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska and Washington, voters backed measures protecting female athletic competition on the basis of biological sex. … Yet the same electorate willing to put Democrats in positions of power also voted to reject a central pillar of the modern progressive agenda.” (11/09/26)
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Johan Wennstrom
“Even Swedes take the wrong lessons from their past, pushing them to make very non-strategic decisions when it comes to NATO and Ukraine today.” (11/10/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/world-war-two-sweden-neutrality/
Source: Liberal Currents
by Silvaria Lysandtra Zemaitis
“Across the Western world, trans rights are under attack, from bathrooms, to sports, to basic medical care. We treat these attacks one-by-one, talking one day about the inherent privacy of bathroom stalls, the next about bones and muscle growth, the third about the proven safety of hormone therapy. We have missed the forest for the trees. While we talk about legal rights, legal protections, and so forth, there is precious little discussion about what trans politics is about.” (11/10/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-final-struggle-for-equal-recognition/
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Charles Goyette
“In October 2004, the Iraq Survey Group presented its exhaustive report to Congress: Iraq did not possess any stockpiles of chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons at the time of the American invasion; its active programs had been destroyed more than a decade earlier, shortly after the 1991 Gulf War. A month later President Bush was reelected, having successfully blamed the deadly fiasco on intelligence failures. Napoleon should have thought of that excuse for his fateful invasion or Russia. The ‘it’s not their fault’ talking point is so sturdy that Trump supporters and neocons are employing it again to disavow the role of the Iran War in one of the biggest electoral wipeouts in American history.” (11/10/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/its-not-my-fault-plead-guilty-neocons
Source: Grist
by Kate Yoder
“Despite recent flops, experts hope the next round of electric pickups will be cheaper — and less polarizing.” (11/10/26)
https://grist.org/culture/tesla-cybertruck-electric-truck-experiment/
Source: Cobden Centre
by Dr. Frank Shostak
“According to the MPT [Modern Portfolio Theory] framework, all market participants have the same expectations about future securities’ returns. Yet, if participants are alike in the sense of having homogeneous expectations, then why should there be trade? After all, trade implies the existence of heterogeneous expectations. A buyer expects a rise in the asset price while the seller expects a fall in the price. The MPT framework also implies that market participants have the same knowledge.” (11/10/26)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2026/11/is-diversification-the-heart-of-investment-2/
Source: In These Times
by David Duhalde
“Will there be a socialist presidential standard bearer in 2028? The answer may be coming soon, as every four years, it seems, U.S. presidential candidates announce earlier and earlier. After the Democrats’ drubbing of Republicans in the midterms, attention is turning to the future role of the Left in American politics. With the largest number of socialists entering Congress in U.S. history, and progressives winning up and down the ballot, across the country, a lane is open to vie for the highest office in the country. White House contenders launching sooner than ever was one of the reasons the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) leadership passed a measure at its September 2026 meeting allowing the body to make a presidential endorsement ahead of DSA’s 2027 summer convention.” (11/09/26)
Source: The American Conservative
by Luke Nicastro
“Over at the New York Times last week, the conservative commentator and editor of Compact Matthew Schmitz pronounced Vice President J.D. Vance the ‘biggest loser’ of the midterm elections. Despite the popular endorsement of Vance’s own view of the war—viz., that it was an egregious mistake that should be corrected posthaste—Schmitz found in the blue tsunami only downside for the vice president. ‘J.D. Vance Is Probably Toast,’ ran the headline. … reports of Vance’s political demise are greatly exaggerated. In fact, the further we get from the initial shock and hysteria of the midterm massacre, the better his prospects look.” (11/10/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/no-j-d-vance-is-not-toast/