Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Deborah Palma
“Brazil finds itself at a historical crossroads that demands a rigorous analysis of its institutional structures. The release of the 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), record-breaking data from the Impostômetro, and the persistence of an authoritarian labor framework expose a system of economic asphyxiation and moral erosion. The State, under the pretext of protecting the citizen, in reality hinders their initiative, their property, and their future.” (03/04/26)
https://fee.org/articles/brazil-at-a-historical-crossroads/
Source: The New Republic
by Alex Shephard
“Right-wing criticism of Trump’s war has mostly come from familiar MAGA cranks like Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson. But it could quickly spiral out of control.” (03/04/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/207311/trump-iran-war-maga-republican-crack-up-just-beginning
Source: ABC News
“A Brazilian Supreme Court Justice ordered the arrest of Daniel Vorcaro, the former head of a bank worth up to $16 billion in assets, in a new phase of a sprawling investigation into a fraud involving billions of reais. In the 48-page long decision authorizing Vorcaro’s pretrial detention signed Tuesday and accessed by The Associated Press on Wednesday, Justice André Mendonça said the probe had already revealed signs of crimes by Banco Master against the finance and justice systems as well as participation in organized crime and money laundering. Separately, Brazil’s federal police said Wednesday in a statement that they had launched raids ‘investigating the possible crimes of threats, corruption, money laundering and invasion of computer systems carried out by a criminal organization.'” (03/04/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/brazils-supreme-court-orders-arrest-former-head-banco-130759735
Source: Politico
“Texas-sized drama.” (03/04/26)
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POLL2739785972.mp3
Source: Law & Liberty
by Aaron N Coleman
“In his famous draft of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, Thomas Jefferson advised that ‘in questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.’ Jefferson’s rhetorically powerful phrase rested on a simple assumption: that the Constitution constrained federal power. That assumption is understandable. After all, the Constitution is written, and it contains a list of powers. For generations, most Americans have followed Jefferson down this well-worn interpretive path and assumed that enumeration equals limitation. It now appears, however, that we have all been profoundly mistaken.” (03/04/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-nationalist-lost-cause/
Source: The Dispatch
by Alan Jacobs
“One of the favors that chatbots have done for humanities professors is to reveal to us that chatbots are so good at doing the thesis-essay assignment because it has always been an exceptionally formulaic thing. If we engage in a little self-examination, we’ll realize that we like it formulaic, because that reduces the time and mental energy we have to invest in grading. It’s easy to compare any given student’s essay to the template in your mind and quickly see the extent to which it matches or deviates from it. The rise of the chatbots — with their algorithmic pattern-matching, their stochastic parrot behavior — has revealed that students and faculty alike have been, for many decades, functioning in exactly the same way. If we could confront our chatbots the way parents confront their kids about drug use, the bots would surely reply ‘I learned it by watching you!'” (03/04/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/artificial-intelligence-college-essay-teachers-innovation/
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez again criticized the U.S. and Israel’s military actions in Iran, standing firm on Wednesday against trade threats from Washington and warning that the war in the Middle East risked ‘playing Russian roulette’ with millions of lives. ‘We are not going to be complicit in something that is bad for the world and is also contrary to our values and interests, just out of fear of reprisals from someone,’ Sánchez said in a televised address. President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to end U.S. trade with Spain because of Spain’s refusal to allow the U.S. to use joint military bases in the country in its attacks on Iran.” (03/04/26)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/03/04/pedro-sanchez-trump-iran/
Source: The Corbett Report
“Resistance Cinema.” (03/04/26)
https://corbettreport.com/resistance-cinema/
Source: Project Liberal
by Oliver Gale
“In the founding principles of liberalism, freedom is not merely the absence of chains; it is the presence of an unguarded space — a space where the individual can think, speak and organise without the omniscient state and its interference. That space has historically been protected by anonymity, especially in the online sphere of discourse. Today, that foundational protection is under substantial threat, more so than before. The new tool for the state to control its subjects is not only a physical prison, but also a digital cage. In this system, mandatory identification is designed to weave into every interaction.” (03/04/26)
https://projectliberal.substack.com/p/digital-id-security-or-big-brother
Source: Fox News
by Mike Davis
“In proclaiming ‘a golden age of America’ in his State of the Union address, President Trump correctly focused on his initiatives to fix the problems perpetrated by the Bush, Obama and Biden administrations that undermine the physical and economic security of the United States. One of those initiatives is Trump’s war on fraud, which, according to the president, is intended to root out and remedy the ‘corruption that shreds the fabric’ of our nation. … Trump’s war will be waged aggressively. As the president put it, ‘We are not playing games.’ But to win the war against fraud, the Trump administration must force the uniparty institutionalists at the Justice Department to change course and protect a key ally in the war on fraud: whistleblowers.” (03/04/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/mike-davis-unsung-crucial-foot-soldiers-trumps-war-fraud
