Source: Fox News
by Frank Cassidy

“In March of last year, my daughter Margot was born, and like any new father, I found myself thinking about the opportunities that would shape her future. I recently enrolled her in a Trump Account, President Donald Trump’s initiative to help American children begin building wealth from an early age. With a $1,000 federal contribution for eligible children born between 2025 and 2028, the program gives the next generation an opportunity to benefit from decades of investment growth. As President Trump’s former Federal Housing Administration commissioner, I also believe Trump Accounts should be just the beginning for how we can help young Americans build lasting wealth. In particular, I think we are at a pivotal point in American history to enact new policies to help generations of families achieve financial independence through owning their first home.” [editor’s note: Surprised this socialist drivel got on the Fox op-ed page; no wait, I’m really not – SAT] (10/27/26)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-accounts-beginning-young-americans-need-path-homeownership

Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter

“The 1951 San Francisco peace treaty formally ending the war between the Allies and Japan attempted to resolve postwar territorial disputes. In that treaty, Tokyo renounced its claim to the Kurils but also contended that the four southernmost islands were distinct from the Kuril chain and, therefore, were still part of Japan’s territory. Since the Soviet Union never signed the treaty at all, the Kuril issue remained unresolved. The dispute has continued to be a volatile, emotional topic with populations in both countries. … There is a significant risk that the United States could become entangled in the disputes involving either the Kurils or the Senkakus. That is especially true since there is a mutual defense treaty with Japan.” (10/27/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2026/10/26/japans-disputed-islands-may-cause-a-headache-for-washington/

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Martin Di Caro

“Before 1986, a city named Reykjavík was best remembered for the ‘Match of the Century.’ International eyes fixated on Iceland’s capital for the World Chess Championship of 1972. The American prodigy Bobby Fischer dethroned the USSR’s defending champ Boris Spassky, ending a quarter-century of Soviet chess domination. Meanwhile on the global chessboard, the Cold War, with its mind-boggling defense budgets and ICBM stockpiles, continued. Fourteen years later, Reykjavík became synonymous with a different kind of U.S.-Soviet meeting with far greater stakes for humankind. The story of how President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev wound up there for two days of meetings 40 Octobers ago — and the progress they made toward a shared goal of eliminating nuclear bombs — should resonate in our dangerous age of nuclear tension and profligate weapons modernization.” (10/27/26)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/reagan-gorbachev-reykjavik/

Source: Show-Me Institute
by Cory Koedel

“Over at The 74, John Arnold penned an op-ed reminding us that getting more students to graduate from high school is not necessarily a good thing. It depends on how we do it. He writes: ‘If boosting graduation is the goal, one way to get there is to lower standards.’ High school graduation rates are up across the United States, but there is mounting evidence that we are achieving these gains by lowering standards. Arnold points to international assessment data showing that U.S. students are performing worse academically, even as more of them graduate.” (10/27/26)

https://showmeinstitute.org/article/education/empty-diplomas/

Source: The American Conservative
by Ted Snider

“A compromise peace, rather than the total defeat of Russia, is not a fair outcome. Nor would the details of such a settlement be fair; Ukraine would have to make more concessions than Russia. But the peace cannot be fair because the war was never fair: It wasn’t fair that the more powerful Russian army illegally invaded Ukraine, and it wasn’t fair that the West used Ukraine as a proxy to fight against Russia, rather than settling the war in its early weeks when the opportunity arose. Despite the fact that a peace deal would not be fair, it would save Ukraine and stop the war from getting worse. And although Ukraine would have to make the more painful concessions, Russia too would need to give way on some things.” (10/27/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/russia-ukraine-peace-compromise-is-necessary-it-wont-be-fair/