Source: Liberal Currents
by Israel Kolawole

“The current automation of governance is an evolution in the long-standing tension between democratic responsiveness and technocratic executive power.” (04/07/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/governing-by-algorithm-what-smart-cities-are-teaching-us-about-power-in-liberal-democracies/

Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob

“‘Gerrymandering is detrimental to our democracy,’ declared Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger . . . back in 2019. ‘Let voters decide, not politicians,’ former President Barack Obama offered just last month. The problem? They’re correct! And Republicans are now sharing the statements by these two high-ranking Democrats with Virginia voters. Why? They oppose the April 21 constitutional referendum that, if passed, would allow the legislature to gerrymander the state’s congressional district lines to likely turn the federal delegation from its current six- to five-seat Democratic majority into a ten to one Democratic majority.” (04/07/26)

https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/04/07/gerrymandered-hypocrisy/

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker

“The epithet ‘anti-vaxxer’ is common in our time for anyone who resists mandates or resents the enormous legal privileges, protections, patents, and subsidies the industry receives today. It also pertains to those who attempt to bring attention to vaccine injury and death, a sensitive and even suppressed subject for an industry that relies on a utilitarian measure to demonstrate its social value. The label does not always or often make sense. The dominant theme of the movement now – and this has always been true – is to reject intervention and instead regard this industry as any other in a free marketplace (hamburgers, bottled water, washing machines, etc.), neither subsidized, nor mandated, nor protected from liability from imposed harms. If that goal were achieved, the ‘anti-vaxx’ movement would shrink dramatically.” (04/07/26)

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-story-of-the-victorian-era-anti-mandate-movement/

Source: Law & Liberty
by Daniel Pitt

“The Finland–Russia border is 830 miles long. It is the longest land border with Russia in Europe. It is not only the Finnish border, but also the European Union’s and, more recently, NATO’s too. Therefore, when the president of Finland, Alexander Stubb, writes a book on foreign policy and the world order, it should be of interest to the West. His new book, The Triangle of Power, analyses the transformation of the international system after the end of Western dominance.” (04/07/26)

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-moral-thinness-of-geopolitics/

Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher

“Democrats should go on challenging shows — but no one should be pressured to prove their populist bona fides on a streamer who may cost them more voters than he delivers.” (04/07/26)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/04/07/the-internet-is-bigger-than-hasan-piker/