Source: Foreign Policy
by Christian Caryl

“Trump’s war in Iran is blowing up MAGA’s plans for an alliance with Europe’s far right.” (03/18/26)

https://archive.is/6660V

Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul McDonnold

“My childhood (metaphorically speaking) ended in the early 2000s, when traditional, kid-focused, Saturday morning broadcast television was fading away. Being in my thirties at the time, it was probably overdue. Even so, the misguided government regulations that helped end a rite of youth now form a case study in the futility that often results when bureaucrats wedge themselves between producers and consumers.” (03/18/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/reflections-on-saturday-morning-tv-and-the-regulations-that-ended-it/

Source: The Dispatch

“Edmund Burke Was Not a Romantic | Interview: Yuval Levin.” (03/18/26)

https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/edmund-burke-was-not-a-romantic-interview-yuval-levin/

Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille

“You’re probably tired of hearing about the U.S. government’s looming debt crisis, because it’s a continuing backdrop to political conversations in this country. Unfortunately, the government’s debt problem comes up so often because most politicians do very little to address the issue. Year after year, they spend more than the government collects in revenue. A new report cautions that growing federal debt not only guarantees a day of reckoning but hobbles chances of fixing the situation.” (03/18/26)

https://reason.com/2026/03/18/the-federal-spending-spree-will-make-the-next-economic-shock-even-worse/

Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff

“For most of the four-year war in Ukraine, Russia’s trading partners in Africa have maintained a studied silence on the issue. These nations rely on Russia for crucial imports – especially the oil that fuels their modernization and the wheat that feeds their burgeoning populations. But recently, civilians in several of these trade-dependent countries have pushed their governments to speak up about a much different, much murkier type of trade with Russia – the deceitful trafficking in humans who are forcibly thrown into the Russian battlefront in Ukraine. Last month, families of Kenyan men allegedly duped into fighting for Russia held protests in Nairobi, as the government revealed that more than 1,000 citizens had been so recruited. ‘These are … matters of human rights, national responsibility, and continental dignity,’ declared the Centre for Investigative Journalism in Zambia.” (03/17/26)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0317/Ending-the-deceit-that-lures-Africans-into-Russia-s-war

Source: Law & Liberty
by James E Hartley

“Beyond his ability to ‘notice,’ Adam Smith was able to bring the different pieces together into a cohesive picture of reality.” (03/18/26)

https://lawliberty.org/forum/a-knack-for-synthesis/

Source: CounterPunch
by Ron Jacobs

“An aspect of the argument that a draft would make politicians think twice before allowing a war to take place because politicians’ children might get drafted into the war is not really much of an argument when considered historically. Looking at the last war where US citizens were drafted — the war in Vietnam, it is more than apparent that those draftees who did most of the killing and dying in that war were working class men. If those men were black, they were even more likely to end up as nothing but cannon fodder. … Another part of this same argument is that the US people would be more likely to oppose US involvement in a war if their children were involved. Once again, history tells us something different.” (03/18/26)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/18/mandatory-conscription-makes-war-easier-not-harder-to-fight/