Source: Reason
by CJ Ciaramella
“Researchers argue that a profound generational shift by millennials and Gen Zers away from criminal behavior is ending mass incarceration and will ultimately reduce the prison population by 50 percent over the next two decades, with or without accompanying policy reforms. … As older generations such as baby boomers and Gen Xers have aged out of criminal behavior, which typically peaks between the late teens and mid-twenties, far fewer millennial and Gen Z offenders have arrived to replace them.” (10/07/26)
https://reason.com/2026/10/07/is-our-age-of-mass-incarceration-collapsing/
Source: Fox News
by Jon Hage & Ed Pozzuoli
“For years, social media platforms expanded with few meaningful protections for child safety, transparency, age-appropriate design, parental visibility or independent oversight. Only after mounting evidence of harm did policymakers begin responding in earnest. By then, millions of children had already been shaped by systems designed to maximize engagement. Artificial intelligence (AI) gives us a rare chance to do better.” (10/08/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ai-education-chance-use-best-tech-fix-broken-schools
Source: Fox News
“Vice President JD Vance and Labor Department officials announced Thursday that the Trump administration is suspending Microsoft, Adobe and others from a key employment-based, green-card program, accusing major tech firms and outsourcing companies of abusing the visa system at the expense of American workers. … Vance said Microsoft laid off 6,000 American workers last year while benefiting from 6,300 H-1B visas and nearly 3,000 green cards, calling it a ‘scandalous system.'” (10/08/26)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/vance-suspends-microsoft-others-from-foreign-workers-applying-green-cards-accuses-company-visa-abuse
Source: The Chris Hedges Report
“The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State (w/ Jill Lepore).” (10/07/26)
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-artificial
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“Without government protection, irresponsible people would be on their own, facing those they violate: the property owners they cause harm to with their vandalism, trash, and theft. There are better ways of handling this than relying on a gang funded through theft and obsessed with making sure it faces no consequences of its own.” (10/07/26)
https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2026/10/07/voices/opinion-dont-believe-government-necessary/234330.html
Source: Law & Liberty
by Joshua T Katz
“Campus free speech sees little improvement in FIRE’s annual report.” (10/08/26)
https://lawliberty.org/some-college-grades-need-to-go-up/
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has been detained for the third time in two days during a protest demanding the resignation of the election chief over a controversial revision of voter lists. Gandhi and other opposition lawmakers were apprehended by police on Wednesday as they marched towards Jantar Mantar, a designated protest site in India’s capital, New Delhi. … Opposition parties, their student units and the “Cockroach” youth movement have been demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, accusing the poll body he heads of benefiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.” (10/08/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/7/indian-opposition-leader-rahul-gandhi-detained-over-election-chief-protest
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Did Trump Consult AI Before Going to War?” (10/07/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/the-kyle-anzalone-show-guest-harrison-berger-did-trump-consult-ai-before-going-to-war/
Source: Persuasion
by James Bosworth
“Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, finished first in Sunday’s presidential election with 47 percent of the vote. He beat incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva—known universally as Lula—on 45 percent, while his right-wing Partido Liberal (PL) also dominated the votes for both houses of Congress. Brazilians will now head for a runoff election between the two men on October 25. Despite being a country where citizens say they are angry at the status quo and want change, Brazil just voted in favor of… rerunning essentially the same political fight it saw in both 2018 and 2022. The country’s politics, in other words, is stagnant.” (10/07/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/in-brazil-absolutely-nothing-changes
Source: Liberal Currents
by Holly Berkley Fletcher
“As the midterms approach, there has been much focus on how to break the Trump coalition. But one bloc is either written off as hopeless or folded into other categories, when it has long deserved its own strategy and approach. Without the support of white evangelicals, Donald Trump would have never become president and certainly would not have dominated our politics for a decade. And MAGA will never be defeated until liberals approach white evangelicals with a strategy focused on their distinctive characteristics.” (10/08/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/you-cant-run-from-christian-nationalism/
