Source: Cato Institute
by Andrew Gillen
“One of the best parts of last year’s reconciliation bill was the introduction of an accountability rule called the Do No Harm rule that will cut off student loans for programs where students earn too little after graduation. The bar is very low. For undergraduate programs, graduates will only need to earn more than a comparable high school graduate who did not attend college, and for graduate programs, students need to earn more than those with a bachelor’s degree. Programs that fail to meet this benchmark for two out of three years would lose access to the federal student loan programs. Nevertheless, there are many programs that do not clear this very low bar.” (05/20/26)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/cosmetology-schools-want-rules-trimmed-back
Source: US News & World Report
“Australian populist party Pauline Hanson’s One Nation said it wanted to create a Norway-style sovereign wealth fund and for the government to take a share of offshore production licences in federal waters as it unveiled its energy policy at the Australian Energy Producers conference in Adelaide on Thursday. One Nation has surged in popularity this year, winning its first House of Representatives seat, and has backing from Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart, who recently donated a plane and hosted dinners for the party. … Her plan would see the federal government take a 30% stake in offshore licences, share development and decommissioning costs, and retain part of production for domestic use, including fertiliser and fuels.” (05/21/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-05-21/australian-far-right-party-proposes-norway-style-oil-fund-and-state-oil-company
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Dave DeCamp on China, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza.” (05/20/26)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/5-19-26-dave-decamp-on-china-iran-iraq-lebanon-and-gaza/
Source: Niskanen Center
by Alexander Mechanick
“I argue that the United States has had three systems of federal administrative procedure: a two-track system lasting from the Founding to the Gilded Age, a second system from the late 1800s to the 1960s that would be codified in the APA, and the third system that was constructed beginning in the 1960s and that we still live in today. This piece covers the first two of these systems: the development of federal administrative procedure from the Founding to the enactment of the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946.” (05/20/26)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-first-two-eras-of-administrative-procedure-from-the-founding-to-the-administrative-procedure-act/
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“It is not just us peons (middle or lower class, out of government, etc.) that should listen to the advice on whom to trust. Even the most powerful and secure of human rulers, princes, leaders, etc. need to remember that they cannot trust other rulers, etc. Even those less powerful than they are. We should remember that far more kings, presidents, etc. have been betrayed and overthrown by other powerful people than ever deposed by true grassroots actions.” (05/20/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/05/20/put-not-our-trust-in-princes-or-anyone-else-in-power/
Source: SFGate
“The Philippine justice chief ordered authorities Thursday to enforce an International Criminal Court warrant for the arrest of a senator wanted on an alleged crime against humanity. He warned that anyone helping the senator evade a nationwide hunt would face criminal charges. Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa ‘is a fugitive from justice,’ Justice Secretary Fredderick Vida said in a news conference. ‘He should be brought to the ICC to face the charges.’ Dela Rosa is a former national police chief who enforced then President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody crackdown against illegal drugs that killed thousands of mostly petty suspects. The killings alarmed Western governments and human rights groups. Duterte, who was president from 2016 to 2022, was arrested last year and flown to the The Hague, where is he is on trial at the ICC on charges of crimes against humanity.” (05/21/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/philippine-justice-chief-orders-arrest-of-senator-22270093.php
Source: Free Talk Live
“This episode features Rich E. Rich from Free Talk Live on anarcho-capitalism, voting, and the Ian Freeman (FreeIanNow.org) trial; plus six essential tech devices every agorist needs for the coming political-economic storm, Fog Data Science and Flock camera surveillance threats and how to fight back, Freedom Dollar vs. Tether, and the latest Firo Spark updates.” (05/20/26)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/salandmarkep4
Source: The UnPopulist
by Berny Belvedere
“Trump and Miller understand that immigration is most valuable to them as a source of perpetual outrage and political mobilization. A humane, functional immigration system would be a liability, not an achievement, because it would deprive them of the issue. Trump literally instructed his party to back away from immigration legislation — legislation that included everything his side had been asking for — so that the issue would retain its political salience and he could continue to campaign on it. The Alligator Alcatraz cruelty thus satisfies the ideological commitment while simultaneously keeping the cameras on how Trump is steamrolling the undocumented, one merch push and viral image at a time.” (05/20/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-shuttering-of-alligator-alcatraz
Source: American Greatness
by Victor Davis Hanson
“The distinguished political scientist Graham Allison, author of the 2015 Atlantic article ‘The Thucydides Trap,’ argued that often in history an established power will stage a preventive war against an ascendant adversary — for fear that otherwise it will soon lose its primacy. His title derives from two passages in the first book of the ancient Greek historian Thucydides …. [The US] is the supposed jittery established power — and a rising Communist China is the upstart contender. His theory implies that the US might, like Sparta, take provocative steps to abort an inevitable Chinese-dominated world. There are, however, a number of problems, ancient and modern, with Allison’s intriguing thesis.” (05/21/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/05/21/america-is-not-caught-in-a-thucydides-trap/
Source: In These Times
by Delia Ramirez
“Illinoisans know the terror the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) can inflict with its unlimited resources and unchecked power. We have been surveilled, threatened, tear-gassed, shot, subjected to warrantless arrest, rammed with vehicles, kidnapped and disappeared. In the time since Donald Trump regained the White House, our communities documented, witnessed and testified to DHS’s abuses. In April, the Illinois Accountability Commission published its final report, which included recommendations that local law enforcement pursue criminal and civil prosecutions against federal agents who used excessive force. One incident highlighted in their report is the violence that occurred on Oct. 3, 2025, in Logan Square at Funston Elementary, when federal agents deployed tear gas close to the recreational area where children were present. The Commission determined what we already knew: Federal agents should be formally investigated for possible violations of agency policy, state and federal criminal laws and individuals’ constitutional rights.” (05/20/26)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/ramirez-delia-ice-special-prosecutor-midway-blitz
