Source: The Daily Economy
by Joakim Book
“Housing is less affordable, governments are drowning in debt, and workers feel stuck. Has technological progress stopped translating into better lives?” (11/05/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/ive-lost-faith-in-human-progress-have-we-stalled/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Logan Tantibanchachai
“Markets bring together people who otherwise have little reason to cooperate. The voluntary economic relationships critics dismiss may help sustain civil society.” (11/05/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/markets-build-trust-not-just-wealth/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Ilya Shapiro
“Americans made it to our country’s 250th birthday without agreeing on whether the occasion calls for celebration or indictment. Some of our most influential institutions regard the Declaration of Independence as evidence for the prosecution. The men who proclaimed human equality owned slaves, don’t ya know, so the principles they proclaimed were fraudulent and the country they founded must spend its remaining days confessing its illegitimacy. A Nation Born in a Day: Visions of the American Founding offers a splendid corrective.” (11/05/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-republic-we-inherited/
Source: The Hill
“President Trump on Wednesday called on Congress to pass the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent, after the day’s ‘ridiculous’ early sunset. ‘Too bad the Senate has not yet approved the Sunshine Protection Act or, the ‘I Don’t Want to Change My Clocks Anymore Act,” he wrote on Truth Social. ‘It’s so dark outside, so early (Sunset was 5:06 P.M., and it was dark by 5:31 P.M. — Isn’t that ridiculous?). Just a few days ago it was so nice and sunny at this same time.’ Trump has been a big proponent of the bill, which the House passed earlier this year but the Senate has yet to pick it up. The bill would end the semiannual clock change.” (11/04/26)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6199783-trump-calls-congress-daylight-saving/
Source: The Dispatch
“Legal Ramifications of a Bluenami.” (11/05/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/legal-ramifications-of-a-bluenami/
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Martin Di Caro
“If foreign policy could decide an election, then 1992 upended expectations. Barely eight months after the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the last time, President George H. W. Bush found himself reminding Americans that he had led the USSR peacefully into history’s dustbin while also liberating Kuwait from the clutches of Saddam Hussein.” (11/05/26)
Source: Liberal Currents
by Katherine Alejandra Cross
“What defines liberalism, and forever yokes it to its restive left-wing progeny, is the fundamental conviction that humanity can be improved in this life rather than the next. It’s hard to overstate how radical this idea was in the 18th and 19th centuries, and how the reaction against it still rages brushfire-hot. Indeed, there is an unbroken line between today’s cargo-cult neofascism and the earliest expressions of fundamentalist reaction. It is the battle of our time, in every hour of the modern world.” (11/05/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-goddess-of-the-nightclub/
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Shares in Elon Musk’s SpaceX have plunged as tech and artificial intelligence stocks more broadly plummeted a day after the Democrats swept to victory in the midterms. Those losses dragged the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite stock index down, which had fallen by more than 5% at one point in early trading. The market has been reacting to possible tougher scrutiny of data centre construction and the artificial intelligence (AI) industry following Democrat wins in key data centre states including Texas. Following the election, some tech leaders have acknowledged they need to improve their communication around data centres and the benefits of AI. SpaceX shares were down more than 7% in early trading on Thursday, while Tesla shares dropped more than 9%.” (11/05/26)
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“The Fed Is Now Trapped by the Math.” (11/04/26)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2810-the-fed-is-now-trapped-by-the-math/
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen
“The casual observer could be forgiven for wondering how the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a Sudanese paramilitary organization notorious for atrocities in Darfur, became powerful enough to challenge the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) for control of the country when its civilian government was overthrown in 2021. Believe it or not, the answer runs through the Global War on Terror, Washington’s disastrous handling of Yemen, and Barack Obama’s determination to placate Saudi Arabia. The connections might seem tenuous. They aren’t.” (11/05/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/from-yemen-to-sudan-obamas-catastrophe-spread-wide