Source: The Watch
by Radley Balko

“The Trump administration’s assault on alleged drug boats has killed about one person per day since early September. These are murders, and basic humanity demands that we not get complacent about them.” (12/19/25)

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/104-murders-in-107-days

Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille

“Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency in no small part thanks to his promise to enforce immigration restrictions that the Biden administration largely ignored. Election year polls found more voters preferred Trump over then-president Joe Biden on the issue and even favored his proposals for mass deportations. But the reality of tough border policies is a harsh reality check; since the current administration took office, Americans have cooled on its policies and warmed to immigration. That’s not to say the country is embracing Biden’s nudge-and-wink approach to border crossings. Instead, people seem to want a middle ground combining enforcement with a touch of humanity.” (12/19/25)

https://reason.com/2025/12/19/trump-won-on-immigration-now-most-americans-say-his-deportations-are-going-too-far/

Source: Orange County Register
by Steven Greenhut

“The United States government first launched a War on Drugs on June 17, 1971, when President Richard Nixon declared: ‘America’s public enemy number one … is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new all-out offensive. … This will be a worldwide offensive dealing with the problems of sources of supply.’ The war has ebbed and flowed over the past 54 years, but the results are clear. Drugs won. But instead of learning the requisite lessons, the Trump administration is ramping up anti-drug-war rhetoric to lunatic levels.” (12/19/25)

https://archive.is/huzx6

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Kristian Guise

“Wealth taxes are over-reliant upon the few, making the tax superficially attractive to money-hungry legislators, but the tax revenue is unstable. A pseudo-wealth tax was proposed in the State of Washington of 1% on assets over $250 million, but once this was announced/expected, Jeff Bezos moved himself and many of his assets to Florida, costing Washington State nearly 45% ($1.44 billion) of the predicted $3.2 billion/year revenue. The people with the highest assets are also highly mobile; threatened with a wealth tax, many will just leave. Applying the tax itself also has high administrative costs.” (12/19/25)

https://fee.org/articles/wealth-tax-a-simplistic-answer-to-complex-problems/

Source: The Findings Substack
by Paul Rosenberg

“Contrary to most beliefs, major changes in our world can occur very quickly, and in fact they often have. Take the fall of the Soviet Union, for example; it vanished in a shockingly short period of time, and to the utter surprise of nearly all the world. In certain cities, like Prague, the fall was faster still. Precisely how these events form is a rather deep study, of course, and more than we’ll cover today. Nonetheless, there is a sort of geometry to these changes; a very powerful one. And so I’ll familiarize you with it.” (12/19/25)

https://thefindings.substack.com/p/the-geometry-of-change