Source: Law & Liberty
by Frederick M Hess

“Don’t get me wrong. It’s wholly reasonable to see the possibilities of technology in schools. After all, pencils, paper, calculators, whiteboards, and buses are all technologies, too. Finding a way to make sensible use of new tools is part and parcel of every profession. But every healthy impulse can easily be corrupted by schlock-peddling vendors, ed school fixations, quick-fix reformers, and assorted grifters. This is education’s evergreen problem, and we now see the result: a flood of dubious ed tech that washed over teachers ill-equipped to navigate the tide. Students were distracted, and teachers were left at sea, even as the wave of Chromebooks, tablets, and learning management systems helped normalize screens at home and in school.” (08/18/26)

https://lawliberty.org/the-k-12-techlash-moment/

Source: Common Dreams
by Alison Schultz & Bemnet Agata

“One of the stranger features of the modern economy is that we no longer disagree about what a multinational corporation is—until the conversation turns to tax. Investors value Apple as a single global business. Consumers experience it as a single company. Its executives manage it as an integrated enterprise, allocating capital, research, production, and marketing across continents according to commercial strategy rather than national borders. Nobody seriously believes that Apple’s subsidiaries are independent businesses negotiating with one another as though they were unrelated companies. They are constituent parts of a single commercial enterprise. Yet this is precisely the legal fiction upon which the international corporate tax system was built—and continues to rest.” (08/18/26)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corporate-tax-legal-fiction

Source: spiked
by Brendan O’Neill

“It is a testament to the moralism of the eco-doom movement that there has been so much focus on shaming ‘deniers’. Practical matters – like, I don’t know, making the case for the mass rollout of aircon – play second fiddle to the pillorying of heretics. The argument seems to be that these wicked doubters have landed us in the inferno of a neverending summer, just as their witchy forebears gave us crop failure and icy winters. I see it differently. To me, the punishing impact of the heatwaves is less the handiwork of ‘deniers’ than a byproduct of the moral circus of eco-alarmism itself.” (08/18/26)

https://archive.is/p5tbc

Source: Mother Jones
by Russ Choma

“His Oman resort sits just miles from the strait where he’s promising to send in the US military.” (08/18/26)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trumps-bombing-threats-have-a-golf-course-problem/

Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey

“As monthly payments quadruple and defaults surge, Washington’s trillion-dollar higher-ed bubble proves politicians can’t fix the crisis they created.” (08/18/26)

https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/the-student-debt-trap-why-government

Source: Law & Liberty
by Alejandro Gomez

“While the colonies declared independence, liberty also found a foothold in the South Atlantic.” (08/18/26)

https://lawliberty.org/buenos-airess-contribution-to-1776/