Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Jeffery L Degner

“This explainer examines how layers of planning and regulation have resulted in barriers to entry and broken promises.” (10/14/26)

https://aier.org/article/explaining-certificate-of-need/

Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye

“The Senate needs to actually work. Legislation that goes through the committee process often stalls because whichever party has the majority doesn’t want to burn valuable floor time. Too often, though, the chamber looks like a glorified human resources department, with nominations taking center stage while legislation waits for an opening. Advice and consent is an important constitutional responsibility. It shouldn’t become the Senate’s entire identity.” (10/14/26)

https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/the-senate-should-consider-the-daines

Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander

“AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have long mentioned the possibility that their products could be existentially dangerous, but this has recently crescendoed into even more dire warnings, including suggestions that we have to pace the frontier, ie coordinate to slow AI progress. In response, cynical commentators have suggested this is a conspiracy to boost the companies’ stocks. The exact motives imputed vary from person to person. Some say the companies are hyping the product by talking about how dangerous it is …. Others say they’re trying to distract from near-term harms …. But the most popular story involves regulatory capture: if the product is unsafe, maybe it can only be trusted to a few big politically-connected companies, and everyone else should be banned. Many debates about AI are complicated and hard to resolve, but this one isn’t: all of these stories are clearly false.” (10/14/26)

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/ai-safety-is-not-a-corporate-plot

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“One of the big problems with conservatives is that they conflate the U.S. government with America the nation. For them, the government and the country are one and the same thing. Thus, given that mindset, it stands to reason that if one criticizes or condemns the U.S. government’s evil and immoral acts in foreign affairs, conservatives consider that person to be criticizing our country. But that conservative conflation of the government and the country is totally wrong-headed. The fact is that we are talking about two separate and distinct entities: The U.S. government and America the country.” (10/14/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/10/14/the-u-s-government-is-not-america/

Source: The American Prospect
by Ryan Cooper

“The latest inflation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is out, and the news is not great. The price of gasoline is up 34 percent over the last year, while the price of heating oil is up 74 percent. Diesel is up 70 percent just since August. All that, of course, is because of Donald Trump’s war in Iran, which shows no sign of ending. Just on Tuesday this week, Iran struck five different oil tankers in and around the Strait of Hormuz. In almost every country, the Trump oil shock has greatly accelerated the pace of the EV transition. … There’s just one major exception: the United States.” [editor’s note: So Americans are not ALL buying into the idea of a vehicle that can be controlled by availability and location of charging stations? Imagine that – SAT] [additional editor’s note: Americans buy into vehicles that can be controlled by availability and location of gas stations, don’t they? What’s the big difference there? – TLK] (10/15/26)

https://prospect.org/2026/10/15/trumps-great-gift-to-chinese-automakers-ev-sales-oil-diesel/