Source: Persuasion
by Lauren Harper Pope

“The map below shows the state of the U.S. Senate after the 2012 election: a blue state indicates both of the state’s senators are Democrats, a red state indicates both are Republicans, and a purple state means there’s one senator from each party. Notice anything interesting about this map? As a result of the 2012 election, a whopping 16 states had both a Democratic and a Republican U.S. senator. As of 2025, only two states have representation from both parties. … Meanwhile, in 2025, pundits warn of a permanent Republican majority in the Senate. Yes, the Democrats had a strong night last night with wins in Virginia’s and New Jersey’s gubernatorial races and in down-ballot races across the country, but those are a handful of elections in an off-cycle year and do not dent the Republicans’ dominance in the middle of the country and particularly in the Senate.” (11/05/25)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-democrats-cant-talk-the-talk

Source: I Blog to Differ
by David R Henderson

“When I taught at the University of Rochester from 1975 to 1979 and Santa Clara University from 1980 to 1981, I didn’t tell students my political beliefs. Here was the problem: I don’t have a poker face. So, for example, when I taught about the effects of rent controls on the quantity and quality of housing, I was probably showing with facial expressions that I thought rent controls were a bad idea. In a way, it seemed phony. Don’t tell your students your views explicitly. But tell them with your facial expressions and body language. I remember struggling with this very early in my teaching career at Rochester and discussing it with seasoned history professor Ralph Raico at Buffalo State. He pointed out that it would be strange to study a discipline carefully for years and not reach conclusions and so, according to him, there was nothing wrong with stating my views explicitly.” (11/05/25)

https://davidrhenderson.substack.com/p/why-i-revealed-my-political-beliefs

Source: Niskanen Center
by Niskanen Immigration Team

“Much of the current support for hard-line immigration policies reflects legitimate frustration with a chronically dysfunctional system, heightened by the stark divergence from the prior administration’s policies. Yet both approaches have failed to deliver the durable solutions that the United States needs to grow and thrive and to restore Americans’ confidence in our government’s ability to get things done. This paper proposes a new approach: a blueprint on which to build an effective, high-performing immigration system.” (11/06/25)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/immigration-beyond-the-extremes-a-blueprint-that-actually-works

Source: The American Prospect
by Ryan Cooper

“Zohran Mamdani has won the mayoralty of New York City. It was an incredible come-from-behind victory against Andrew Cuomo, who ran one of the most well-funded campaigns in city history, and was endorsed by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Still, Mamdani’s margin of victory was fairly small—less than ten percentage points—compared to the usual whopping Democratic landslide in this particular contest. One reason for that is a number of nationally prominent New York Democrats refused to endorse their own party’s nominee. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries waffled on the question for months, and only endorsed at the very last minute, while both Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — who implied Mamdani is a jihadist — and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer refused to do it at all. And now it turns out Schumer almost certainly voted for Andrew Cuomo.” (11/06/25)

https://prospect.org/2025/11/06/chuck-schumer-not-fit-to-lead-democratic-party/

Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman

“[W]ays true facts can lead to false conclusions.” (11/05/25)

https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/statistical-errors

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Charlotte Kuperwasser

“I’m going to touch on a highly controversial subject, one that has become the third rail among cancer biologists and the broader medical community: the possible link between Covid-19 vaccination and cancer. Because my laboratory’s mission is centered on cancer prevention, I cannot in good conscience ignore the elephant in the room. As my colleague, internationally renowned cancer biologist Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, and I articulated in the September ACIP meeting on Covid vaccines, nearly 50 publications have reported a temporal association between Covid-19 mRNA vaccination and the onset of cancer.” (11/05/25)

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-third-rail-covid-19-vaccines-and-cancer/