Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jake Scott

“On July 20, Andy Burnham attended Buckingham Palace, where King Charles III invited him to form a government—making him Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade. Burnham is nicknamed ‘the King of the North,’ inspired by the Game of Thrones series and also speaks to his extremely popular tenure as mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017. As a politician, he reflects all of the establishment’s trusted elements and very little of its baggage. Having served as a minister in Blair’s government and won three landslide re-elections since becoming Manchester’s mayor, Burnham has managed to avoid the scandals associated with the Labour Party of the last two decades while building a prominent personal brand—and has cast a shadow over Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership as a result.” (07/24/26)

https://fee.org/articles/andy-burnham-takes-the-stage/

Source: Liberal Currents
by Alan Elrod

“Complaints about Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ are mainly complaints about what does and doesn’t count as Western, as manly, and as heroic art. And those complaints are about maintaining a highly circumscribed and prejudiced boundary of American identity downstream of a facile, vulgar conception of the ancient ‘West.’ It’s worth stressing—if, somehow, it hasn’t been stressed enough—that many of America’s right-wing nationalists view the United States as a culmination of a fancifully idealized Western culture. … what matters more here is who is seen as capable of making history. It’s certainly not women, and it’s absolutely not non-whites.” (07/25/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-vandals/

Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson

“Once again, Mr. ‘Art of the Deal’ underperforms his predecessors.” (07/24/26)

https://thedispatch.com/article/saudi-arabia-nuclear-deal-trump/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Thomas Savidge

‘The pandemic exposed weaknesses that had accumulated over decades.” (07/24/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/getting-unemployment-insurance-back-to-work/

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Charles Goyette

“In what is the monetary equivalent of tearing down statues, the British have decided they must replace iconic images on their currency. Out of an apparent fear of offending the stampede of human beings who have chosen to abandon their own homelands to live in Great Britain, the historic images on British currency of people instrumental in making that nation what it is, have been forced to yield to images of animals. Foxes, badgers, and hedgehogs are in the ascendency. Our problem in the United States is somewhat different. It appears that the iconography of our currency will be made to climax in images of Donald Trump.” (07/24/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/our-currency-icons-and-americas-national-character/

Source: American Greatness
by Jordan Schachtel

“The AI Kill Switch Act, introduced Thursday by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas), seeks to hand the government unprecedented authority to order private companies to throttle, suspend, or shut down products in “kill switch” fashion, purely on their own arbitrary determination, with fines up to $20 million a day. Behind this carefully staged rollout is a fanatical coalition that looks like a broad consensus, but it is mostly one funding network with an arsenal of astroturf organizations at its disposal.” (07/24/26)

https://amgreatness.com/2026/07/24/the-manufactured-bipartisan-push-for-an-ai-kill-switch/