Source: Responsible Statecraft
by George Beebe

“At first glance, the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw two battalions from Germany and cancel the planned deployment of intermediate-range ground-launched missiles there looks like a win for those who favor reducing America’s overseas military presence or prioritizing the Indo-Pacific over Europe. But how the United States retrenches and refocuses its foreign policy ambitions matters enormously. And the way this announcement was handled could ultimately prove to be a setback for both so-called ‘restrainers’ and ‘prioritizers’ as they seek to reshape U.S. foreign policy strategy.” (05/11/26)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/germany-troop-withdrawal/

Source: Common Dreams
by Aamir R Mufti

“The war launched by Israel and the United States on Iran on February 28 has already proven a turning point in world history. So many elements of geopolitics have coalesced in it that we won’t understand its full significance for some time to come. A ceasefire, especially one as chaotic and fragile as this one, is not the end of war, so the new realities may soon be replaced by others. But safe to say that none of the countries of the regions directly impacted by this war so far (from the Levant and the Persian Gulf all the way to South Asia, and of course the United States and Israel) will be able to return to the status quo antebellum.” (05/12/26)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-china-unipolar-world

Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman

“What will happen when Americans realize how miserable we are? Not in all respects, of course. But my guess is that relatively few Americans realize how much we are falling behind other nations on basic aspects of a civilized life, like health and safety.” (05/11/26)

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-americans-realize

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya

“Mill depicted socialist precepts in a way that would seem attractive to liberals who are constantly striving to create a better world. The quest for utopia — or as close to utopia as can be achieved with the right sorts of government interventions — is the quintessential mindset of the progressive liberal. … David Gordon has observed that Mill was not only a utopian, he was also ‘a propagandist anxious to replace Christianity with a Religion of Humanity, guided by intellectuals such as himself.’ In that sense Mill can be seen as typical of “The Anointed” as identified by Thomas Sowell.” (05/11/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/inconsistencies-john-stuart-mill

Source: The Daily Economy
by Jeffrey Hummel

“A sweeping new book portrays the Revolution as a struggle over competing monetary systems, rather than political liberty alone.” (05/12/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/was-the-american-revolution-really-a-war-over-money/