Source: Expression
by Chapin Lenthall-Cleary

“To find what makes people more or less likely to be tolerant, we can look through various traits in our data — things like age, race, or education — and make charts showing how much evidence each trait provides that someone thinks that controversial speakers should be allowed to speak. Loosely, that’s how much each trait correlates with being tolerant.” (11/04/25)

https://expression.fire.org/p/most-people-are-horribly-intolerant

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Roger Bate

“When politicians talk tough on trade, they usually promise to protect American jobs. But sometimes those gestures do the opposite. The Trump administration’s proposed 100 percent tariff on large cigars imported from Nicaragua is a case in point. According to my latest research, the tariff would shrink US GDP by $1.26 billion, reduce total output by $2.06 billion, eliminate nearly 18,000 jobs, and cost state and local governments $95 million in tax revenue. There is no domestic industry to protect. The United States produces almost no large cigars …. Over the past year, US regulators have exhibited a kind of policy whiplash — swinging between deregulation and sudden restriction with no coherent principle in sight.” (11/04/25)

https://brownstone.org/articles/tariffs-tobacco-and-policy-whiplash/

Source: Niskanen Center
by Cassandra Zimmer

“The Department of Transportation (DOT) is selling its recently announced restrictions on “non-domiciled” truck drivers as an emergency measure. In reality, they’re an immigration crackdown. By sharply limiting which foreign-born workers can hold commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs), the DOT will push nearly 200,000 legally authorized drivers off the road, gutting an industry already facing severe labor shortages — all under the guise of highway safety.” (11/04/25)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/dot-trucking-crackdown-immigration

Source: Wired
by David Gilbert

“Tucker Carlson’s friendly interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes has led to a major reckoning in the Republican party.” (11/04/25)

https://archive.is/KlBUS

Source: The Bulwark
by Joe Perticone

“For describing itself as the ‘most transparent administration in history,’ the Trump administration sure does value secrecy — at least when it comes to the question of who financed President Donald Trump’s future gilded ballroom, which is being planned to rise over the rubble of the former East Wing of the White House. As with so many things people care about, Republicans on Capitol Hill don’t seem to think people should care about it. The White House has released the names of some of the donors to the ballroom. But not all of them. And not the amounts they’ve given. Indeed, in some cases, the White House has decided to just keep the details secret.” (11/04/25)

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-white-house-ballroom-donors-amounts-secret-republicans

Source: The Intercept
by Nick Turse

“The U.S. government has long maintained lists of terrorist organizations. Groups classified as ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorists’ or ‘Foreign Terrorist Organizations’ have been hit with financial penalties, immigration restrictions, or other sanctions. Groups on the FTO list, such as Al Qaeda and ISIS, have been targeted with lethal strikes. But these designations aren’t enough for President Donald Trump. The U.S. government has instead begun drawing up new lists of terrorist organizations without disclosing the identities of the groups to Congress or the American people.” (11/04/25)

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/trump-terrorist-list-nspm7-enemies/

Source: In These Times
by Luis Feliz Leon

“Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist and the Democratic nominee, will be New York City’s next mayor, after trouncing former Governor Andrew Cuomo in a primary and general election double whammy. ‘The working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands,’ Mamdani told a roaring crowd at his victory party in Brooklyn. ‘Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor; palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars; knuckles scarred with kitchen burns — these are not hands that have been allowed to hold power. And yet, over the last 12 months, you have dared to reach for something greater. Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it… We have toppled a political dynasty.’ But the fight is just beginning.” (11/05/25)

https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-dawn-of-a-better-day