Source: UnHerd
by Nikos Mohammadi

“America boasts the world’s largest media market, and even in this age of shrinking attention spans, strained ad budgets, and declining circulation, it offers something for everyone. But does this diversity extend to the nation’s prestige outlets? On the surface, the answer would seem to be yes. The New York Times plays to the post-woke-but-still-kinda-woke establishment Left, while The Washington Post editorial page, under Jeff Bezos’s increasingly heavy-handed leadership, is going for Trump-friendly free-market conservatism. The contrast is exemplified by two of the papers’ most prominent writers: the Times’[s] Russian-born columnist Masha Gessen … couldn’t be more different from the Post’s Marc Thiessen, who’s gaining a lot of attention these days as President Trump’s favorite print columnist. … The two should be at odds, and in some ways, they are. But when it comes to foreign policy, they sing almost exactly the same hawkish, pro-empire song, albeit in slightly different keys.” (05/06/26)

https://archive.is/B8m5Y

Source: In These Times
by staff

“The Rev. Jesse Jackson died February 17 at age 84. In 1984 and 1988, the civil rights activist ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, becoming the first Black man to wage a major national campaign for the White House. In his 1988 speech at the Democratic National Convention, Jackson emphasized, ​’Politics can be a moral arena where people come together to find a common ground.’ Salim Muwakkil, in coverage for In These Times, made a similar assessment, writing that while many of Jackson’s followers ​’are more comfortable agitating or deriding conventional political wisdom’, Jackson ​’managed to harmonize most of those discordant notes.’ Almost 40 years later, as once-outsider politicians like Zohran Mamdani — now the first Muslim mayor of New York City — attempt to carve out space within the political mainstream, we return to Muwakkil’s words on the costs and opportunities of movement institutionalization and ‘“political maturity.'” (05/07/26)

https://inthesetimes.com/article/jesse-jackson-for-president-democrat-operation-push

Source: Independent Institute
by Sam Jenson

“Meta Inc., previously known as Facebook Inc., intends to implement facial recognition technology in its smart glasses, which are produced in collaboration with Ray-Ban and currently sold without this capability. The proposed feature would facilitate real-time translation and allow users to ask on-demand questions. However, the integration of facial recognition technology introduces significant privacy and legal concerns for individuals in public spaces.” (05/06/26)

https://www.independent.org/article/2026/05/06/personal-panopticon-smart-glasses/

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Laurence M Vance

“Contrary to its misunderstanding and misrepresentation by Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and conservatives, libertarianism has nothing to do with greed, selfishness, one’s lifestyle, morality, vices, or religion. It is a political philosophy that deals with the proper role of violence in society. … The creed of libertarianism is nonaggression: freedom from aggression and violence against person and property as long as one respects the person and property of others. … Most Americans would claim to hold to the nonaggression principle on a personal level. … Yet most of these same people have no problem supporting government aggression against those who are not aggressing against the person or property of others, are participating in certain activities, or are engaging in prohibited commerce in order to effect changes in behavior, compel virtue, punish vice, or achieve some desired social end.” (05/06/26)

https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-shocking-nature-of-libertarianism/