Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Stephanie Jablonsky

“We have a jawboning problem in New York City. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, the president of Manhattan borough, just wrote a letter demanding that Mayor Zohran Mamdani ‘summarily suspend’ the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission’s partnership with the company Curb, which makes interactive TV screens for taxi cabs. Curb’s sin? Last year, it signed a contract with Newsmax to provide one-minute news updates for its taxi screens. … As we explain in our letter to the TLC, any attempt to condition TLC’s contract with the city on dropping a news vendor because the news they play is too conservative is classic jawboning.” (02/10/26)

https://www.thefire.org/news/you-talkin-me-new-york-city-official-wants-turn-yellow-cabs-speech-police

Source: Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

“The upcoming negotiations between the United States and Iran may be the only way to avoid military conflict between the two countries. President Donald Trump, assuming that recent large public anti-regime protests have weakened the Iranian government, has taken what he sees as an opportunity to pressure the Iranians over their nuclear and ballistic missile programs and assistance to foreign groups in the Middle East. … The Iranians already seem willing to negotiate a deal similar to the one negotiated by Barack Obama in 2015 but loudly scrapped by the incoming Trump administration: Iran severely limits its enrichment of nuclear material and sends its stockpile of such material to a third country. It would not be the first time that Trump has made threats and then settled for a ‘for-show’ agreement similar to the one he could have gotten without the blustering.” (02/10/26)

https://www.independent.org/article/2026/02/10/iran-art-retread/

Source: Persuasion
by Joseph Heath

“According to popular perception, universities have become cesspools of radical left-wing indoctrination, dominated by cultural Marxism, critical race theory, and post-modernism. As someone who has been working on the inside through the past three decades of intellectual fads and enthusiasms, I am sorry to report that, not only is this false, it is the opposite of true. The hegemonic ideology in the fields of political philosophy, legal theory, and political science, throughout my entire career, has been American liberalism. And not just any old American liberalism, but rather the very specific manifestation of this tradition articulated in the work of John Rawls.” (02/10/26)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-unexpected-persistence-of-john

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Ryan McMaken

“In spite of the religious claims made by some Zionists, no state on earth was created by God, and there is no moral principle or natural law that mandates support for any state. Nor is there any moral principle or natural law that prohibits delegitimizing any state. States are simply organizations, created by human beings, that carry out the agenda of the governing elite in each state. There is no mandate from heaven. There isn’t even any such thing as ‘the will of the people.’ In this, the State of Israel is no different from any other state.” (02/10/26)

https://mises.org/power-market/spite-what-zionists-say-its-good-thing-criticize-governments

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Beryl Lipton

“Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public. In the ad, disguised as a heartfelt effort to reunite the lost dogs of the country with their innocent owners, the company previewed future surveillance of our streets: a world where biometric identification could be unleashed from consumer devices to identify, track, and locate anything — human, pet, and otherwise.” (02/10/26)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/no-one-including-our-furry-friends-will-be-safer-rings-surveillance-nightmare-0