Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher

“A state-by-state breakdown of the Senate primaries shows Democrats have largely, but not completely, averted a debilitating ideological civil war in the midterm elections.” (02/13/26)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/13/democrats-take-the-senate-2026-path/

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Renaud Beauchard

“As the entire world is having a temper tantrum over the most recent Epstein case revelations about our discredited elites – obsessing over the power networks, the private jets, the bank accounts in the Virgin Islands, the French ministers, the European royalty, the foreign intelligence agencies, etc. – I’m having an entirely different epiphany. And, strangely, a flicker of hope. The rot on display is hard to take your eyes away from, but I find myself thinking more about what might rise in its place. I’m not talking about another faction of whip-crackers wearing better suits or pushing slicker slogans, but a quieter bunch, who appear to have the capacity to generate moral assent to a new political formula. That new elite prototype has started to take shape inside the MAHA movement. It might not yet be a fully formed counter-elite, but it certainly looks like a promising kind of one.” (02/13/26)

https://brownstone.org/articles/is-the-maha-movement-building-a-genuine-counter-elite/

Source: Reason
by Autumn Billings

“A lawsuit argues that Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem coerced Apple and Meta to censor two popular ICE-monitoring tools, which violates Americans’ right to freedom of expression.” (02/13/26)

https://reason.com/2026/02/13/the-feds-used-threats-to-silence-their-ice-tracking-speech-now-theyre-fighting-back/

Source: Fox News
by David Marcus

“When I was growing up in the 1980s, there was a galaxy of left-wing, even socialist, intellectual stars such as Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault and Gore Vidal whose works were like an inkwell that politicians and commentators could draw from. Judging from the Munich Security Conference this weekend, that inkwell has run dry. Take this gem of a comment on global order from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, queen of the democratic socialists: ‘What we are seeking is a return to a rules-based order that eliminates the hypocrisies around when too often in the West we look the other way for inconvenient populations, to act out these paradoxes.’ Allow me to translate this into English: ‘The West is bad and mistreats the marginalized rest of the world.'” (02/14/26)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-democrats-munich-meltdown-exposes-lefts-intellectual-void