Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“For decades, conservatives have condemned the socialist-communist regime in Venezuela. They have called it evil, immoral, deadly, and destructive. In fact, conservatives even came to describe the Venezuelan regime as a ‘narco-terrorist’ regime. Why, they have even supported unsuccessful regime-change efforts within the country. … What’s the situation today? It’s hard to believe. The U.S. government, led by President Trump, the Pentagon, and the CIA, is actively partnering with the very socialist-communist, narco-terrorist regime that conservatives have long criticized and condemned.” (05/13/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/05/13/the-malignant-hypocrisy-of-conservatives-is-on-full-display-in-venezuela/

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Branko Marcetic

“The war in Ukraine has been defined by periodic bursts of certainty that Russia is on the back foot, if not close to collapse, and that Ukraine, conversely, is inches away from victory. We appear to be in the middle of one of these moments of euphoria now. Finnish President Alexander Stubb has declared that Ukraine is ‘on top’ and ‘in a much better place than it has been at any stage in this horrific war’, charging that Russia is unable to recruit enough soldiers to make up for those it’s losing. Ukrainians have ‘a growing self-confidence’ on account of the territory they have supposedly retaken, as one former U.S. ambassador put it, and their growing confidence over military advances ‘is strikingly higher today than a year ago’, charged another. A spate of reports have it that the walls are closing in on Russian President Vladimir Putin.” (05/13/26)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-forced-conscription/

Source: Law & Liberty
by Julia R Cartwright

“The United States has reached a milestone, and unfortunately, it’s not one to celebrate. For the first time outside a genuine crisis, America’s national debt now exceeds the size of its entire economy. There is nothing magical about the 100% line; it’s more of a psychological threshold than a hard cliff. Indeed, debt hawks have sounded alarms for years, and the economy has not yet collapsed. But the absence of collapse is not the same as the absence of consequences. Like other developed nations that have drifted into high debt territory, cracks in the American economy are beginning to show, structurally and with compounding force.” (05/13/26)

https://lawliberty.org/americas-new-debt-milestone/

Source: Antiwar.com
by Harrison Berger

“An illegal auction of stolen Palestinian land at an elite Upper East Side synagogue, and the swift condemnations from groups like J Street launched against New Yorkers who attempted to protest it, reveal the Zionist rot at the heart of the American Jewish elite establishment that is bastardizing and corrupting the religion from within, and why liberal Zionist groups present only an impotent challenge to it. … J Street’s response to those protests – condemning both the protesters and the land sales in equal measure – is indicative of the balancing act the organization has attempted to manage, one that is unstable and contradictory, with its guiding (or rather, mis-guiding) principle that Zionism can ultimately be reformed …. and that the American Jewish elite institutions which have funded settlement expansion, armed soldiers to ethnically cleanse Gaza, and laundered Israel’s atrocity propaganda bears no meaningful responsibility for what Israel does.” (05/13/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/harrison_berger/2026/05/12/why-j-street-does-not-go-far-enough/

Source: Washington Monthly
by James D Zirin

“The former FBI director has been indicted for a threat spelled with seashells. Why this lawfare will falter.” (05/13/26)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/13/james-comey-is-insufferable-the-trump-charges-against-him-are-absurd/