Source: Semafor
by David Weigel

“The major US political parties are best understood by looking at Texas and California, whose 2026 primaries tell a clear story: Republicans are run from the top, while Democrats aren’t run at all. Texas Republicans did what the president asked them to on Tuesday, nominating state Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton for the job now held by Sen. John Cornyn. A 40-year scandal-free career in Texas politics is over after pro-Cornyn groups spent close to $100 million to defend him, simply because President Donald Trump said so. The polar-opposite dynamic is on view in California, where Democrats will likely send one of their gubernatorial candidates to the November election against Republican Steve Hilton. They have struggled to even accomplish that, however, after Gov. Gavin Newsom declined to endorse a successor.” (05/27/26)

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/27/2026/why-democrats-prefer-their-own-messy-primaries

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“There is a principle in the law that one must have ‘standing’ before bringing a legal action against someone else. If the person lacks standing, his case is disallowed. In the build-up to one of its patented regime-change operations, the U.S. government, especially the national-security branch of the government, has accused Cuba’s government of being a supporter of terrorism. That’s rich, especially given that the U.S. government has long been — and continues to be — one of the biggest supporters of terrorism against Cuba. Given such, the U.S. government clearly lacks moral standing to complain about any supposed support of terrorism by the Cuban government.” (05/27/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/05/27/no-moral-standing-to-complain-about-supposed-cuban-terrorism/

Source: The UnPopulist
by Shikha Dalmia

“Its splashy self-examination reads less like a serious reform agenda than a carefully choreographed contrition statement aimed at a hostile administration.” (05/27/26)

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/yales-mea-culpa-arrives-at-the-wrong

Source: Property and Environment Research Center
by Jonathan Thompson, Adam Daigneault, & Joshua Plisinski

“Old-growth forests provide exceptional ecological and cultural value, store disproportionately large amounts of carbon, and support unique habitat structures and species assemblages not found in younger forests. Consequently, their protection has been a longstanding conservation priority. Yet globally, old-growth forests are rare, fragmented, and in decline.” (05/27/26)

https://www.perc.org/2026/05/27/conserving-the-last-mature-forests-in-maine/

Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis

“‘If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.’ — Thomas Jefferson … That Democrats and other Leftists hate America’s Founding Fathers and the country’s Judeo-Christian heritage is a fact I’m not going to waste time in the article attempting to prove. Everything the Left does is designed to uproot and destroy the principles our Founders tried to build the nation upon. One of those principes, a very vital one, is a correctly educated populace. We have been complaining for many years now, and rightly so, what the Left has done to America’s education system since getting control of it about a century ago. Our Founders warned us about it, but, of course, Americans in general have paid no attention to them on this as on most matters they taught us.” (05/27/26)

https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/05/27/why-the-left-hates-americas-founders-education-n2676724