Source: The Intercept
by Liliana Segura

“A DOJ prosecutor insists he charged Abrego based strictly on evidence of human smuggling. A federal judge seems skeptical.” (04/28/26)

https://theintercept.com/2026/04/28/kilmar-abrego-garcia-trump-justice-department/

Source: Law & Liberty
by Leonidas Zelmanovitz

“According to [Andrew David] Edwards, differing conceptions of money between Britain and the colonies lay at the heart of the imperial conflict. As he presents it, the main differences rely on the ‘temporary’ nature of colonial money versus the ‘permanent’ nature of imperial money, and the fact that colonial money, in his account, had no link to precious metals. Yet these distinctions, while rhetorically powerful, ultimately collapse under scrutiny. The divergences he identifies appears less substantial than he suggests, though—a point that becomes clearer when one considers the broader economic context. Both sides of the Atlantic were, in practice, grappling with the same fundamental constraint: the scarcity and high cost of precious metals.” (04/28/26)

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-monetary-origins-of-the-american-revolution/

Source: Quillette
by Aaron Sarin

“After all these years, the Communist Party is still handcuffed to its American rival, and it is unable to break free.” (04/28/26)

https://quillette.com/2026/04/28/nixon-was-right-china-kissinger-bush-clinton-deng-xiaoping/

Source: Antiwar.com
by Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick

“False historical narratives abound in our contentious and divided world, as leaders and complicit historians endeavor to use public understanding of the past to push policies and gain control in the present. One of the most egregious cases is the widely accepted account of the decision by U.S. leaders to drop the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 of 1945, respectively. The generally held view, which is frequently taught in schools across the U.S. and beyond, is that the bombings were necessary to save lives, both American and Japanese …. This assessment is not only disputed by the facts, but it ignores the realities of what the bombings meant for the initiation of the Cold War and the future of humanity, in a world long awash with civilization-ending weapons.” (04/28/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/ivana_nikolic_hughes/2026/04/27/nuclear-weapons-didnt-save-lives-in-1945-they-wouldnt-today-either/

Source: The Bulwark
by Jonathan Cohn

“Psychedelics have genuine potential as psychiatric tools, which is why separating them from politics is so important.” (04/27/26)

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/when-joe-rogan-is-in-charge-of-health-care-psychedelics-therapy-fda