Realism, Idealism, and a Balanced Foreign Policy

Source: Liberalism.org
by Emma Ashford

“The last thirty years have been a period of pronounced overextension in U.S. foreign policy, and it has upset the balance between promoting liberal values overseas and protecting liberalism at home. Worse, the two primary camps in today’s foreign policy debates — Trump’s America-First nationalism and Biden’s global democracy-vs-autocracy framework — are simultaneously protectionist and militarily interventionist. If liberals are to build an effective domestic agenda, they instead need to tether it to a more modest, realist foreign policy capable of protecting American democracy and prosperity at home. This need has only been heightened by the Trump administration’s disastrous war with Iran, which looks increasingly likely to seriously strain the American economy.” (03/27/26)

https://www.liberalism.org/p/realism-idealism-and-a-balanced-foreign-policy

Atlanta, TSA, and a Test Case for Interventionist Non-Intervention

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joshua Mawhorter

“[T]he concept of interventionist non-intervention argues that the state — following coercive taxation and monopolization or competition suppression — can intervene through doing ‘nothing,’ that is, paid non-delivery of promised and monopolized service. The core elements of interventionist non-intervention are: 1) the binary intervention of coercive taxation where citizens are forced to pay for a service regardless of whether or not they receive it; 2) the triangular interventions of monopolization or competition suppression where the state claims exclusive domain over the service provision; and, 3) non-delivery wherein the state then fails or refuses to provide the monopolized service for which it has extracted payment, in part or in whole.” (03/27/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/atlanta-tsa-and-test-case-interventionist-non-intervention

Cloud Seeding: A Better Way to Address Water Shortages

Source: The Daily Economy
by Peter Clark

“n the United States, cloud seeding has long been a subject of controversy. The process involves releasing small quantities of compounds such as Silver Iodide (AgI) into the atmosphere, causing clouds to produce rain or snow. Critics call it “weather modification,” but cloud seeding is a moderate and cost-effective effort to enhance rainfall that can benefit the water-strapped Southwest by fortifying its water supply.” (03/27/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/cloud-seeding-a-better-way-to-address-water-shortages/

The Last Lesson My Mother Taught Me

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joseph Varon

“My mother did not die in an intensive care unit. She was not surrounded by machines, alarms, or artificial light. She died at home, in a room imbued with the quiet weight of memory. Decades of life were embedded in those walls, which had witnessed birthdays, conversations, laughter, arguments, and the countless ordinary moments that, in retrospect, constitute the true foundation of a life. A peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line rested in her arm, serving not as a symbol of escalation but as an instrument of compassion. Medications were given to relieve discomfort rather than to reverse disease. Nurses entered the room with calm, deliberate purpose rather than urgency. Their voices were soft, their movements measured. Their objective was not to save her life, but to honor it.” (03/27/26)

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-last-lesson-my-mother-taught-me/

US House Judiciary Committee calls out “monopoly” on medical resident matching

Source: The Hill

“In a report released Friday, the House Judiciary Committee found that the U.S. system for matching resident physicians to programs is monopolistic and anticompetitive. Every year, resident physicians in the U.S. learn which program they’ve been placed in. This is operated through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), commonly referred to as the ‘Match.’ The House Judiciary Committee determined in its investigation that the way residency programs are matched is the result of an ‘entrenched monopoly shielded from scrutiny by government protectionism.'” (03/27/26)

https://thehill.com/newsletters/health-care/5805266-house-judiciary-resident-matching-monopoly/