The Headlines, 05/26/26
Source: New York Times
“White House Shakes Up Green Card Policy, and the Pope Takes On A.I.” (05/26/26)
A Century of Progressive Apartheid
Source: Law & Liberty
by Paul Moreno
“This year marks the centennial of zoning in the United States, when the Supreme Court upheld comprehensive municipal land-use restrictions over the claims of property owners. The decision, Euclid v. Ambler Realty, was a milestone in the progressives’ campaign to overcome constitutional impediments to their plans for social engineering. In the ensuing century, zoning fundamentally altered the geography of American life, turning what had just become an urban-majority nation into a suburban one. Critics on both the libertarian right and woke left condemn zoning as a back-door version of apartheid, a stealthy way to keep immigrants and blacks out of ‘desirable’ neighborhoods.” (05/26/26)
A Sweeping Theory of Everything Is Revolutionizing the Democratic Party
Source: The Atlantic
by Jonathan Chait
“‘I helped set in motion a revolution that aims to rebuild something like a true liberal democracy in America,’ Barry C. Lynn wrote two years ago in Harper’s. The claim is notable less for being impossibly grandiose than for being more or less correct. Lynn is the intellectual godfather of what is now known as the neo-Brandeisian movement, which identifies corporate consolidation as the singular, villainous force behind everything that has gone wrong in the United States. … The effects of his revolution on the party and its ability to govern are far greater than many intellectuals, politicians, and staffers seem to grasp. To attribute all problems to a single cause is to reject every solution but one.” (05/26/26)
KY: Massie files paperwork to run in 2028, says he hasn’t made a “final decision” about his political future
Source: NBC News
“Fresh off last week’s primary loss, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., announced Monday he had filed paperwork for a 2028 run for the House — or something else. ‘I filed with the [Federal Election Commission] for the 2028 House race. This allows me to raise funds to continue my political operations supporting my position as a current office holder and as a potential candidate for federal office,’” Massie wrote on X. ‘I haven’t made a final decision about which office to seek, if I run,’ he added. In an interview Sunday on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press,’ Massie declined to rule out a 2028 presidential bid.” (05/25/26)
The Good Fight, 05/26/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“H.W. Brands on the Making of George Washington.” (05/26/26)
Could Inflation Help Explain Falling Birth Rates?
Source: The Daily Economy
by Vincent Geloso
“Jeffery Degner’s recent book makes the case that monetary policy reshapes time preference, and with it, decisions about family formation.” (05/26/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/could-inflation-help-explain-falling-birth-rates/
Trump understands what Washington politicians forgot: Cuba is a major threat to America
Source: Fox News
by Carlos Trujillo & Alberto Martinez
“On May 20, 1902, the Cuban flag flew for the first time over an independent country. One hundred and twenty-four years later, the Cuban people are still not free. Every president before Donald Trump either did nothing about Cuba, did too little, or did too much for the regime. Trump is the first to recognize that the regime is a threat to America itself and to resolve to confront it once and for all. That his predecessors failed to do so is not only the Cuban people’s tragedy. It is ours. Cuba’s communist regime is a designated State Sponsor of Terrorism. It ran two of the most damaging espionage operations against the United States in modern memory. It was the intelligence backbone of the Maduro narco-state. It has served as a coordinating hub for the migration flows and drug routes flooding American communities. The suffering Havana exports has cost American lives.” (05/26/26)
Laos: Rescuers race to free seven people trapped in flooded cave
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Rescuers are racing against time to free seven people who have been trapped for nearly a week in a flooded cave in Laos. The seven were part of a group of villagers from the central province of Xaysomboun who had gone into the cave on Wednesday in search of gold and wildlife, but could not get out as rain and landslides blocked the cave’s entrance. Footage shared by the rescue groups show the cave divers crawling into the cave through narrow, muddy passageways that are almost completely flooded. Several experts involved in the dramatic rescue of a team of teenage footballers trapped deep inside a Thai cave back in 2018 are among those helping with the current rescue effort. A survivor who had managed to escape alerted the authorities about those still trapped, according to reports.” (05/26/26)
Ron Paul Liberty Report, 05/26/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Israel’s Gaza-ization of Lebanon.” (05/26/26)
More Iran war? There goes the neighborhood, and global economy.
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Karthik Sankaran
“For all the uncertainty about what will happen next on the military and diplomatic front in the Iran war, there is certainty about what has already happened on the economic front. And it is not good.” (05/26/26)