Source: The Daily Economy
by Corey A DeAngelis
“New research strongly suggests teachers’ unions are driving the skyrocketing administrative bloat that’s sucking resources away from classrooms. By diverting additional funding toward hiring more people, they starve effective educators of the raises and support they need, all to pad their own power structures. Unions benefit enormously from inflating the number of employees in the system, turning public schools into top-heavy bureaucracies that serve adults — not our kids. Teachers’ union bosses gain in two major ways from the rapid expansion in administrative hiring — which also siphons resources away from teachers, students, and classrooms.” (12/29/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/fewer-kids-more-admins-the-quiet-boom-in-k-12-hiring-thats-pure-politics/
Source: Forbes
“Bitcoin has dropped sharply over the last few weeks of 2025, losing 30% since hitting an all-time high in October (even as U.S. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent reveals a price game-changer). The bitcoin price has found a floor at just under $90,000 per bitcoin, failing to climb in last couple of weeks along with gold, silver, copper and other commodities that have made huge gains—potentially paving the way for a huge bitcoin price boom in 2026. Now, after a $3 trillion stock market warning suddenly flashed red, the bitcoin price and crypto market is braced for a ‘crazy week’ after the silver price dropped 10% in just over an hour.” (12/29/25)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/12/29/buckle-up-bitcoin-and-crypto-brace-for-crazy-week-as-gold-silver-and-copper-prices-swing/
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave delivers radar on Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) bragging about a proposed wealth tax aimed at California residents worth more than $1 billion to pay a one-time tax equivalent to 5% of their assets that can be paid over five years.” (12/29/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5665231-rising-december-29-2025/
Source: Liberal Currents
by Samantha Hancox-Li
“Something has gone wrong in America. By historical standards, we live in a time of unimaginable abundance. Yet there is a malaise, and we all feel it. The normal rules of normal politics no longer seem sufficient to answer our questions. The straitjacket of the Long 90’s is breaking: what will replace it? Enter Brink Lindsey’s The Permanent Problem. A vice president at the Niskanen Center, Lindsey diagnoses America’s malaise as a breakdown of two opposed forces: the dynamism of capitalism and the inclusiveness of communities. … According to Lindsey, we must recover the Promethean spirit — the willingness to go out and change the world, and use this to solve Keynes'[s] ‘permanent problem’ of ‘living wisely and agreeably and and well.'” (12/29/25)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/are-we-prometheans/
Source: Associated Press
“Iran’s largest protests in three years erupted Monday after the country’s currency plummeted to a record low against the U.S. dollar, and the head of the Central Bank resigned. State TV reported the resignation of Mohammad Reza Farzin, while traders and shopkeepers rallied in Saadi Street in downtown Tehran as well as in the Shush neighborhood near Tehran’s main Grand Bazaar. Merchants at the market played a crucial role in the 1979 Islamic Revolution that ousted the monarchy and brought Islamists to power. The official IRNA news agency confirmed the protests.” (12/29/25)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-traders-protest-rial-currency-ddc955739fb412b642251dee10638f03
Source: EconTalk
“In Defense of Intuition (with Gerd Gigerenzer).” (12/29/25)
https://www.econtalk.org/in-defense-of-intuition-with-gerd-gigerenzer/
Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Andrew Jason Cohen
“I recently heard Jill Lepore, professor of history at Harvard University, on The Good Fight podcast. In discussing campus culture, she expressed dismay at the fact that some of her students had refused to read the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision (1857), which she had assigned. They refused, apparently, because it would cause them (or perhaps others) pain to read a defense of slavery in the United States. … Students need to know — and do know — that they do not stand on desks in their classrooms, that they do not lecture to the class (unless the professor assigns that to them), and a host of other things. That has always included — and ought to still include — the simple fact that professors, like all teachers, make the assignments and they, the students, do them or get lower grades. This is simply how the institution works.” (12/29/25)
https://prosociallibertarians.substack.com/p/college-work
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“President Volodymyr Zelensky has denied allegations by Russia that Ukraine launched a drone attack on one of President Vladimir Putin’s residences, and accused Moscow of trying to derail peace talks. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed Kyiv had launched an attack overnight using 91 long-range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on Putin’s state residence in Russia’s northwestern Novgorod region. Russia said it would now review its position in peace negotiations. It is not yet clear where Putin was at the time of the alleged attack. Zelensky dismissed the claim as ‘typical Russian lies,’ intended to give the Kremlin an excuse to continue attacks on Ukraine. He said that Russia had previously targeted government buildings in Kyiv.” (12/29/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g4g5lgngvo
Source: The Dispatch
“Intellectuals of the New Right | Interview: Laura Field.” (12/29/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/intellectuals-of-the-new-right-interview-laura-field/
Source: Antiwar.com
by Jonathan Cook
“Starmer’s UK government has set the most dangerous of precedents: it can now outlaw any political group it chooses as a terrorist organisation – and thereby make it impossible to defend it.” (12/29/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/cook/2025/12/28/how-reporting-facts-can-now-land-you-in-jail-for-14-years-as-a-terrorist/
