Source: Libertarian National Committee
by Evan McMahon

“If you’re a Libertarian candidate in America right now, the Republican Party doesn’t want to debate you. They want to sue you. When Republicans know they can’t win on ideas, they resort to their favorite tactic: suppressing voter choice. Right now, GOP operatives are dragging our candidates into courtrooms in Florida, New Jersey, and Iowa. Not because our candidates did anything wrong, but because Republicans would rather clear the ballot than compete on it. In Iowa, they went even further. Before filing their legal challenges, GOP operatives and even HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally contacted our candidates for Congress and offered them enticements to drop out. When they refused, they challenged their paperwork. This is a coordinated national attack. And we will not stand for it.” (06/30/26)

https://lp.org/the-gop-cant-win-on-ideas-so-theyre-suing-our-candidates-off-the-ballot/

Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman

“I recently spent a week in Chile as a guest of the Centro de Estudios Libertarios, interacting mostly with Chilean libertarians. Chile is the most free market country in Latin America and the richest but lately has been becoming a little less of both, so one topic of conversation was how to reverse that, more generally how to make Chile more libertarian (most Chileans would say more liberal). I then spent another week in Argentina, which is becoming more libertarian, again associating mostly with libertarians, so the same topic came up there in the context of how to keep it doing so. I have thought a good deal about the question in the American context. At a broad level the answer is the same.” (06/30/26)

https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/how-to-save-the-third-world

Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob

“‘I am loving that the World Cup has brought to our shores all these people,’ comedian Bill Maher told his Real Time audience on Friday, ‘who are doing Americans the service of reminding us — just when we needed it on our big 250 birthday — that actually this place is kind of awesome.’ What Maher celebrated could be seen on social media, mostly. One German fan — and the first many American X users have encountered — is @FreddyLA7; his success is instructive, saying that he hasn’t ‘met a single unfriendly person.'” (06/30/26)

https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/06/30/world-loving-cup/

Source: In These Times
by Miles Kampf-Lassin

“This summer, a seismic wave ripped through the foundations of an ossified Democratic establishment as a swell of left-wing challengers channeled disgust at party elites to jolt the entire political system. On June 23, a slate of candidates emerged victorious with endorsements and support from the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani. They toppled longtime incumbents and added fuel to the economic populist electoral movement that has been sweeping the country. Union organizer Claire Valdez won a race for an open seat in New York’s 7th District, encompassing swaths of Brooklyn and Queens, by more than 20 points while community activist Darializa Avila Chevalier took out Adriano Espaillat in NY-13, in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx, and former comptroller Brad Lander (endorsed by Mamdani but not DSA) beat out Rep. Dan Goldman in NY-10, in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, by more than 30 points.” (06/30/26)

https://inthesetimes.com/article/democratic-socialists-dsa-mamdani-valdez-new-york-primary