Source: The Intercept
by Nick Turse
“An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.” (03/02/26)
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/02/trump-board-peace-human-right-abuses/
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“I often get that question. I can’t say I have a very good answer. Going back to the last bubbles, it would be difficult to identify any events in the world that precipitated the collapse of either the 90s tech bubble or the housing bubble in the 00s. Both times the economy seemed to be moving along at healthy clip just prior to the collapse. There had been warnings in both cases. … But these warnings came well before the crashes. There is no obvious event that caused the stock market to turn in March of 2000 or the housing bubble to peak in the summer of 2006.” (03/02/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/02/when-does-the-ai-bubble-burst/
Source: Common Dreams
“President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is extraordinarily unpopular, according to a poll conducted shortly after the US and Israel carried out massive strikes on the country Saturday. The survey, conducted by Reuters/Ipsos, found that just 27% of voters approved of the strikes, which have killed at least 555 Iranians as of Monday morning and resulted in retaliation from Iran that has killed at least four US service members, with more casualties expected according to a spokesperson for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. Meanwhile, 43% of respondents disapproved of the military action, while 29% said they were not sure. A majority of Republicans said they approved of the strikes, with 55% expressing support. Still, 13% disapproved, and a noteworthy 31% said they were unsure.” (03/02/26)
Source: The Dispatch
by Keith E Whittington
“There is a great deal of legal significance to whether the child of an alien to the United States born in California thereby becomes a citizen of this nation. The longstanding understanding is that such a child benefits from birthright citizenship, that such a child is a natural-born American citizen by virtue of having been born within the United States. That would have been true under the English common law prior to the American Revolution. It was the dominant understanding of American common law after the Revolution. It was the established meaning of the text of the 14th Amendment adopted after the Civil War.” (03/02/26)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by James Vermillion
“Böhm-Bawerk was a student of Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian school of economics, and he became one of the tradition’s most formidable systematizers. His major work, Capital and Interest, published in three volumes between 1884 and 1921, remains one of the most ambitious attempts to explain why capital exists at all and why human beings bother to build tools, factories, institutions, and other intermediate goods when they could, in principle, simply apply their labor directly to the natural world and consume whatever comes out.” (03/02/26)
Source: NBC News
“GLP-1 drugs — including Ozempic and Wegovy — may be tied to a slightly higher risk of osteoporosis and gout, according to research presented Monday at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ annual meeting. … Osteoporosis is a disease that weakens the bones and makes them likelier to break or fracture, often from minor falls. It’s a common concern for many older adults and for people who lose a significant amount of weight over a short period of time. Gout, meanwhile, is a painful form of arthritis that can occur when the body has too much uric acid, which can come from a diet high in red meat and alcohol — as well as rapid weight loss.” (03/02/26)
Source: EconTalk
“The Power of Introverts (with Susan Cain).” (03/02/26)
https://www.econtalk.org/the-power-of-introverts-with-susan-cain/
Source: Students for Liberty
by Hein Htet Kyaw
“Hu Shih, former president of both Peking University and Academia Sinica, and known for his ties to Chinese liberalism and John Dewey’s (American philosopher and psychologist) experimentalism was an influential figure in Chinese politics and academia. He was also China’s Ambassador to the United States during 1938–1942. Despite Hu Shih’s substantial achievements and impact, there were extended periods where he was officially a ‘forbidden figure’ and was repeatedly and publicly denounced. During Mao Zedong’s regime Hu Shih’s writings were officially purged and censored from circulation. In most of the propaganda red films inside China, the surname ‘Hu’ was mostly given towards counter-revolutionary figures or bourgeois landlords. To understand the Chinese Communist Party (CCP’s) organized efforts to eliminate Hu Shih’s influence from intellectual discourse in China, it becomes important to know his politics and philosophy.” (03/02/26)
https://studentsforliberty.org/blog/hu-shih-pioneer-of-radical-liberalism-in-china/
Source: Fox News
by Tanvi Ratna
“The death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following coordinated U.S.–Israeli strikes in late February 2026 marks one of the most consequential geopolitical moments of the decade. In the immediate aftermath, Iran launched retaliatory missile and drone attacks across Israel and against U.S. and Gulf-linked infrastructure, while internet disruptions spread domestically and internal unrest intensified. Analysts, journalists and policymakers quickly filled the information space with competing interpretations — some emphasizing escalation risks, others focusing on humanitarian fallout or regime durability. Yet viewed through the lens increasingly guiding U.S. national security doctrine, the operation appears less as an isolated military escalation and more as part of a broader strategic transition already underway: the integration of economic security, technological dominance and supply-chain resilience into core American grand strategy.” (03/02/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/from-missiles-minerals-strategic-meaning-behind-iran-strike
Source: Fox News
“The Cincinnati City Council will consider in early March a reparations housing program that would use tax revenue on marijuana to fund a portion of it. The city is expected to discuss the ‘Cincinnati Real Property Reparations Program’, a proposal cosponsored by Vice Mayor Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney and Councilman Scotty Johnson. The program would offer assistance to ‘low-to-moderate income residents’ and ‘any individual or family member of an individual who was prevented from buying a home due to discriminatory practices’, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. The two officials want an initial investment of $5 million for the program using proceeds from marijuana tax revenue and the city’s capital budget, according to the Enquirer. The program would target residents in 15 of the city’s 52 neighborhoods, and would allow recipients to use the money for a down payment, pay delinquent property taxes or emergency home repairs.” (03/02/26)