Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes

“American progressives continue to advocate for a Medicare for All system, pointing to the Old Continent as a utopian model of universal access to health care. However, in Europe, systems in which the state functions as both direct provider and single-payer monopolist continue to fail. Contrary to the narrative pushed by certain political circles, Europeans are increasingly adopting private health insurance. The structural flaws in countries that double down on centralized, state-run models show notable consistencies: swelling waiting lists, health care professionals fleeing a public sector constrained by rigid salary scales, and a systemic inability to allocate resources where they are needed most.” (09/09/26)

https://fee.org/articles/the-failure-of-europes-single-payer-health-monopoly/

Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff

“The term geopolitics, frequently used in discussing global diplomacy and trade relations today, was coined only about 125 years ago. But the concept has been around far, far longer, as evident in the practice of cartography or mapmaking since ancient times. One of the earliest known world maps – created by the Babylonians in 600 B.C.E. – placed Babylonia at the center. Since then, seafaring and colonizing nations in particular have done much the same, centering their locations or adjusting sizes to project global reach and relevance. ‘A map is never neutral’, according to Robert Dussey, foreign minister of the small African nation of Togo. ‘It shapes perceptions, influences how the place of peoples and continents in the world is understood,’ he said at a United Nations briefing last week.” (09/08/26)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0908/Remapping-fresh-worldviews

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Robert Malone

‘Beginning in February 2020, the Secretary of Health and Human Services declared that Covid-19 warranted sweeping liability protections, meaning that if someone was injured or died from a Covid-19 vaccine, treatment, or related product, they generally cannot sue for damages in court. The only exception is for ‘willful misconduct’ causing death or serious injury—an extremely high legal standard that is very difficult to prove. Instead of accessing the traditional court system, injured individuals must seek compensation through a government program that has historically been difficult to navigate and provides limited relief.” (09/09/26)

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-prep-act-unchecked-power-zero-accountability-and-a-path-forward/

Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein

“Those who split the world into binaries—voluntary exchange on one side, state coercion on the other—miss a lot. They miss the enormous third thing Adam Smith described: the unenforced realm of ‘propriety,’ the decency, manners, and mutual forbearances that no contract specifies and no statute compels. If we want less state, we must have more propriety. A friend of liberty has a larger stake in the moral condition of society than the statist does.” (09/09/26)

https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/self-command-is-the-price-of-freedom

Source: The Daily Economy
by Christopher Crennen

“The missing consumer in health care helps explain the strange economics — and legal risks — of drug companies paying doctors.” (09/09/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/what-makes-pharmaceutical-speaker-programs-illegal/