Source: EconLog
by Arnold Kling

“It would be nice to have definitive measures of economic progress. We would like to know whether progress is faster in one country than in another. We would like to know whether progress was faster in one period of time than in another. We would like to know how different policies and institutional arrangements affect progress. … The most commonly used indicator is Gross Domestic Product, reported either as a total amount or on a per capita basis. But GDP data are often quoted in the press or used by economists without much consideration of the problems in constructing the estimates.” (07/07/25)

https://www.econlib.org/library/columns/y2025/klinggdp.html

Source: Liberal Currents
by Janet Bufton

“Too many liberals — especially classical or market liberals — have fallen into the trap of thinking that because a liberal state must be neutral about morality and the good life, liberals can’t have anything to say about the way of living or beliefs that support it. Some liberals have fallen into the trap of thinking that they have to draw on other ideologies, like conservatism or socialism, for their moral goals. This is staggeringly mistaken, and buying into it would be devastating to liberalism. It is precisely because liberalism cannot take sides that liberals must. Liberalism defends individuals, and it depends upon them.” (07/07/25)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-needs-liberals/

Source: Our Future
by Sulma Arias

“When Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries took the floor of Congress for his last speech before Republicans voted to pass deep cuts to health care, food, housing and education, it took him nine hours to read the flood of stories he’s received from ordinary people in every corner of the country who will be harmed by these cuts. Soon there will be more stories of harm to tell, after president Trump signed these cuts into law. Every single one of us will be touched by his budget’s cruelty. Every one of us will have our own story to tell about a hospital that closed or a loved one who died, fell sick, went hungry, or was forced onto the street to pay for Trump’s tax breaks for billionaires. [editor’s note” Yet another “progressive” who takes anecdotal evidence over actual facts – SAT] (07/06/25)

https://ourfuture.org/20250706/organizing-to-meet-a-moment-of-cruelty

Source: The Atlantic
by Brandon del Pozo

“In keeping with the values of the local police, the federal government should prohibit the wearing of masks by its officers and require them to properly identify themselves. These are the minimal requirements of policing a free state — regardless of how you feel about the administration’s stance on immigration. You can support ambitious deportation targets without sanctioning anonymous policing.” (07/07/25)

https://archive.is/bLA9H

Source: The Federalist
by Ben Weingarten

“The Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. CASA that universal injunctions ‘likely exceed the equitable authority’ Congress has granted federal courts has been framed as a victory for a Trump administration stymied by an unprecedented barrage of them. But the majority’s 6-3 opinion in favor of the administration’s challenge to universal injunctions — via its appeal of several such rulings in cases consolidated under CASA, whereby courts halted its executive order curtailing birthright citizenship — is far greater than a win for one president. It is a triumph for the rule of law and our republic over judicial tyranny, though it comes with loopholes that Resistance 2.0 is already plotting to drive a truck through in its ongoing lawfare campaign.” (07/07/25)

https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/07/scotus-ruling-against-universal-injunctions-didnt-go-far-enough/