Source: The UnPopulist
by Steve Chapman

“Why birth tourism should bother the president and his supporters is a bit of a puzzle. Americans who oppose immigration often allege that foreigners who migrate here take jobs, drive up housing prices, sponge off taxpayer-provided benefits, congregate in clannish enclaves, and implant alien religions and customs. So you would think the critics would take a benign view of foreigners who come briefly and immediately leave, interacting with hardly anyone and paying their own way before vanishing like footprints on an ocean beach. The longstanding complaint is that this option allows their citizen children—’anchor babies,’ as they are misleadingly called—to sponsor parents for legal admission to the U.S. But kids can’t do that until they reach the age of 21, and after they do, the process of securing green cards can take a full decade.” (07/25/26)

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-maga-anchor-baby-myth-doesnt

Source: Fox News
by Kerri Kupec Urbahn

“The cameras that scan your car on your commute to work have quietly become one of the most widespread surveillance tools in America. They record vehicle sightings, feed searchable databases and, when agencies choose to share data, can connect searches across jurisdictional lines. Recent courts have upheld the particular ALPR networks before them, but they have left open whether a denser, more revealing system could cross the constitutional line.” (07/24/26)

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/surveillance-camera-your-street-corner-lawful-spying-constitutionally-problematic

Source: Freedom and Flourishing
by Dr. Edward W Younkins

“The similarities between Rand and Aristotle are substantial. Both hold that ethics is grounded in a conception of human nature and that the good life consists in the fulfillment of that nature. For Aristotle, eudaimonia is the activity of the soul in accordance with virtue; for Rand, happiness is the state of consciousness that proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. Both identify reason as the distinctive human capacity and the foundation of virtue. For Aristotle, the rational part of the soul is what distinguishes humans from other animals; for Rand, ‘reason is man’s basic means of survival’. Both conceive of virtue as a kind of excellence in functioning—the excellent exercise of one’s human capacities. … Despite these deep affinities, important differences separate Rand from Aristotle.” (07/25/26)

https://www.freedomandflourishing.com/2026/07/is-ayn-rands-philosophy-consistent-with.html

Source: Show-Me Institute
by Elias Tsapelas

“Everyone agrees that health care costs too much. The disagreements start when we have to decide who should receive less money. That’s a big reason why warnings about Medicaid ‘cuts’ often receive so much attention. But the latest claims from Missouri hospitals about the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) cuts hurting rural hospitals deserve a closer look. At first glance, the concern seems straightforward. Since the government is the single largest purchaser of health care in the country, hospitals operating on thin margins could understandably struggle if they were paid less by Medicare or Medicaid. The first question, though, is what exactly is being cut. The OBBB does not reduce the payment rates hospitals receive for treating Medicare patients or Medicaid patients who remain eligible. Instead, it implements community engagement requirements for some able-bodied Medicaid enrollees beginning next year …” (07/24/26)

https://showmeinstitute.org/article/health-care/a-curious-hospital-argument/

Source: The Nation
by Jeet Heer

“The deal as initially described would allow Saudi Arabia to achieve its long-standing goal of having the US greenlight and assist in its civilian nuclear program without having to make any of the compromises that had previously prevented an agreement. … But within 24 hours, the landmark deal was already starting to unravel. The New York Times reported that the deal was ‘in doubt’ because Trump had ‘added a new condition to the sale of nuclear reactors to the kingdom, declaring that the entire arrangement now depends on the Saudi willingness to establish diplomatic relations with Israel.’ This was a typical Trump negotiating tactic: pulling the rug out from someone after proclaiming a done deal.” (07/24/26)

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-saudi-nuclear-deal-analysis/

Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Tyler Tone

“Much like the information gleaned from reverse engineering Sega’s copyrighted software, the patterns an AI model learns are not necessarily copyrighted works. Copyright protects an author’s particular expression, not the broader relationships among words, concepts, themes, or writing techniques that readers — or even AI models — may learn and deploy from it.” (07/24/26)

https://www.fire.org/news/training-ai-copyrighted-materials-protected-first-amendment