Source: The Daily Economy
by David Hebert

“The Court limited one statutory pathway while leaving others intact. The opinion strengthens the major questions doctrine and clarifies how far emergency powers can stretch.” (03/03/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/six-takeaways-from-the-supreme-courts-tariff-ruling/

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“War is the worst thing in the world. Westerners talk about it like it’s a fucking video game, like ‘hurr durr, we just go in there and achieve our objectives and win,’ when really war means shredding human bodies to bits. Children burning to death in front of their parents. People holding their own guts in their hands as their life slowly slips away. People getting trapped under rubble and dying excruciatingly slow deaths of suffocation or dehydration. People picking up pieces of their beloved family members. Westerners are able to hold this compartmentalized video game mentality about war because war isn’t something that happens to us. We’ve never had bombs dropped on our neighborhoods. We’ve never had the experience of seeing a severed hand on the ground after an explosion and trying to figure out who it belonged to.” (03/03/26)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/03/03/if-westerners-could-wrap-their-minds-around-what-war-really-is/

Source: Cobden Centre
by Joshua Mawhorter

“This first experiment with government-issued bills of credit presents a natural historical test case for Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), particularly its claims about chartalism and the state’s role in originating money. This took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1690. Given that the US is MMT’s favorite example of a ‘monetary sovereign,’ the first issuance of government paper money in the Western world ought to be significant. Given the claims of MMT and the relatively recent, extant history of colonial America, there is surprisingly little MMT writing that addresses the Massachusetts case (though my research was, of course, limited).” (03/03/26)

https://www.cobdencentre.org/2026/03/massachusetts-1690-the-first-western-fiat-experiment/

Source: Law & Liberty
by David Elder

“On January 18, former CNN anchor Don Lemon joined a group of protesters as they interrupted a church service in Minneapolis, where the pastor is reportedly an ICE official. Lemon and other protesters were charged with conspiracy against the rights of religious freedom. Immediately, pundits and commentators argued that Lemon’s arrest was an attack on the First Amendment and independent journalism. Yet as the Becket Fund’s Eric Rassbach correctly observed, neither protestors nor the media have First Amendment protection where they ‘invade someone else’s private space to report on the news or proclaim their message.'” (03/03/26)

https://lawliberty.org/the-lemon-test/

Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher

“Iran’s theocratic dictatorship is murderous and illegitimate and should not last for one more second. Donald Trump’s war on Iran’s theocratic dictatorship is murderous and illegitimate and should not last for one more second. A parallel is not moral equivalence, which is why it’s tricky to articulate all the ways Trump’s war is disastrous. That thousands of Iranians have been killed by their government under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s reign means his death is no cause for tears. But because Trump’s stated objectives are cynical and insincere, his war lacks any legal basis, and his expectations are ignorant of everything history teaches about war’s consequences, we should be disturbed by what follows this initial assault and targeted assassination.” (03/03/26)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/03/all-the-ways-trumps-war-on-iran-is-disastrous/