Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Sergio Martínez

“A central bank wields a peculiar kind of power. It holds a monopoly over money, and money runs through nearly every transaction we make. Because of that reach, a monetary mistake travels through credit markets, housing, banks, pension funds, and the budgets of millions of people who never had a say in the policy. That is the right place to begin a reflection on Alan Greenspan, who died on June 22, 2026, at the age of 100. His was a mixed legacy. Here was a man who understood the power of markets, and who nonetheless turned on those markets when they soured, blaming private excess for a crisis his own institution had helped make possible.” (06/25/26)

https://fee.org/articles/alan-greenspan-and-the-monetary-monopoly/

Source: Truthdig
by Bill Blum

“Clarence Thomas went more than 10 years without asking a single substantive question from the bench. His silence between 2006 and 2016 prompted commentators to call his courtroom quietude embarrassing, a sign of fatigue and a lack of intellectual candlepower. Even earlier in his career, he had earned the nickname of ‘Scalia’s Puppet’ for his habit of joining majority opinions written by Justice Antonin Scalia, the outspoken and reactionary ‘originalist’ who shared the dais with him until his death in 2016. But the characterization of Thomas as an inattentive echo of Scalia is wrong. Thomas has always been more extreme and dangerous than Scalia, and his influence has never been greater.” (06/25/26)

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/clarence-thomas-unbound/

Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob

“Most of the calumnies against Elon Musk come from people who are either envious or completely unaware of the basic principles of economics. Or both. That being said, not everyone ‘in my camp’ admires or defends the South African-American tech magnate.” (06/25/26)

https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/06/25/x-marks-the-grift/

Source: Reason
by Adam Omary and Jeffrey A Singer

“When Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act in 1970, marijuana’s placement in Schedule I was explicitly provisional, a placeholder pending review by a presidential commission. The Shafer Commission, chaired by a Republican governor and composed largely of President Richard Nixon’s appointees, concluded in 1972 that marijuana did not meet the criteria for Schedule I and recommended decriminalizing personal possession. Nixon ignored the report and escalated the war on drugs. The provisional classification became permanent by default. Since 1965, an estimated 29 million Americans have been arrested on marijuana charges, roughly 90 percent of them for possession alone. The most damaging consequence of Schedule I, however, has not been to cannabis users, who have gained access through state legalization, but to the research enterprise.” (06/25/26)

https://reason.com/2026/06/25/prohibition-didnt-stop-marijuana-use-it-stopped-marijuana-research/

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Joe Mullin

“Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about private and encrypted communications. While supporters continue to claim this bill protects minors online, its requirements come at the expense of privacy, free expression, and the ability of people of all ages to use the internet without revealing sensitive data. Supporters of KOSA have said the bill doesn’t require age verification. And technically, the KOSA section of the bill does say that KOSA shouldn’t be read to require age verification. But if you read the rest of the bill, that disclaimer starts to look hollow.” (06/25/26)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online