Source: hypertext
by Kristen Collins
“Content-focused policies risk censoring speech without fixing the underlying business model that pushes noxious material where it will do the most damage.” (04/06/26)
https://hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/for-better-tech-we-must-think-bigger
Source: The Daily Economy
by Nikolai G Wenzel
“From technocrats to central planners, the temptation to engineer society persists. Adam Smith saw the dangers clearly.” (04/06/26)
Source: CounterPunch
by John Feffer
“Perhaps Donald Trump was persuaded—by his generals, by his buddies in Silicon Valley, by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—that American military superiority would make quick work of the Iranian military. In addition to the aircraft carriers, the Stealth bombers, the Tomahawk missiles, and the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, Trump could also call upon the assistance of Claude and his buddies.” (04/06/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/06/artificial-intelligence-versus-human-stupidity/
Source: Reason
by Fiona Harrigan
“Deaths in ICE custody hit a 20-year high in 2025 and a majority now say the agency’s actions make Americans less safe.” (for publication 05/26)
https://reason.com/2026/04/06/a-deadly-immigration-crackdown/
Source: New York Post
by staff
“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Queens) is now opposed to funding defensive shields that could save the lives of innocent civilians — if they are Israelis. Seems like she’s trying to win back the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America that spurned her in 2024 for not hating the Jewish state enough. Or maybe she’s just showing her true colors. Her re-hardened anti-Israel position comes even though she isn’t facing any significant opposition in her re-election campaign, which raises and spends so much money it’s more like a good-sized business than a scrappy Bronx-Queens political operation; she doesn’t need the DSA’s endorsement. But she got her fellow antisemitic socialists mad at her because she abstained from voting to deny funding for Israel’s strictly defensive Iron Dome project, which protects Israelis — Jewish and Arab — from the tens of thousands of missiles that have been lobbed from Iran’s regional terror proxies.” (04/06/26)
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“In 2023, the families of persons who had died because of Boeing’s lies about safety were told that it was too early to challenge the Justice Department’s deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with Boeing. Now, in 2026, the same Fifth Circuit says that their challenge is too late. When was the perfect Goldilocks moment?” (04/06/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/04/06/justice-delayed-forever/
Source: Foreign Policy
by Bob Davis
“To understand U.S. trade policy, it’s best to think of chaos theory: the search for a pattern behind seemingly haphazard events. Donald Trump is the chaos agent in this case, threatening countries on a whim with sky-high tariffs like the Queen of Hearts thundering, ‘Off with their heads.’ But beyond the seeming disorder, there is more of a Washington consensus on trade policy than is often not commonly recognized — and it dates back to the late Obama years.” (04/06/26)
Source: Common Dreams
by Jeffrey D Sachs
“Donald Trump and his partner in war crimes, Benjamin Netanyahu, are jointly waging a war of murderous aggression against Iran, a nation of 90 million people. They are in the grip of three cascading pathologies. The first is personality: both are malignant narcissists. The second is the arrogance of power: men who possess the power to command nuclear annihilation and feel, in consequence, no restraint. The third, and most dangerous of all, is religious delusion: two men who believe, and are told daily by those around them, that they are messiahs doing God’s work. Each pathology exacerbates the others, so that together they put the world in unprecedented danger.” (04/06/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/netanyahu-trump-psychopaths-war-criminals
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Madsen Pirie
“In December 1968, three very brave men went around the moon in the first manned flight of the Saturn 5 rocket. Four years later in 1972, the last astronauts of the Apollo programme visited the moon. Now, 58 years after that first flight, and 54 years since the last one, it is happening again and people are asking if the world is better now that it was then. The answer is an emphatic YES. The most dramatic event has been the decrease in extreme poverty.” (04/06/26)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/myda7mk96sukrw68mz7hsi9c8uz4i5
Source: The American Conservative
by Spencer Neale
“Strange bedfellows defined the coalition that carried Donald Trump to the presidency in 2016 and 2024. Evangelicals, libertarians, nationalists, and traditional Republicans, groups with little agreement on core policy, laid down their knives on those November Tuesdays to rally behind a whimsical, big-city showman who built, and often mismanaged, his inherited empire. Trump was their champion — a comedian, a performer, but, most importantly, a fighter. If MAGA was anything, it was a coalition bound less by shared policy goals than by a shared sense of grievance and a love for the game. And we were played. I should know. I voted for the man. His faults now exposed for the world to see are, in part, my own.” (04/06/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/maga-champion-need-not-apply/