Source: The UnPopulist
by Andy Craig
“A few years ago, court packing was a fringe idea with no realistic prospects. President Biden’s commission on Supreme Court reform pointedly declined to endorse adding seats, and no realistic vote count could reach 51 in the Senate—not only for expansion itself, but for nuking the legislative filibuster to bring it to a vote at all. That is no longer the case.” (06/26/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-unfortunate-necessity-of-court
Source: The Daily Economy
by Vance Ginn
“Global initiatives promise justice through economic restraint. In practice, they would make societies poorer and opportunity scarcer.” (06/26/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-poverty-of-the-uns-degrowth-agenda/
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Burkina Faso’s military junta has broken off diplomatic ties with France, accusing Paris of persistently acting against its national interests. Relations between Burkina Faso and its former colonial ruler worsened after Capt Ibrahim Traore seized power in a coup in 2022 and pursued largely anti-Western policies. In a televised statement on Friday, communications minister Pingdwendé Gilbert Ouédraogo said France was guilty of ‘ceaseless activism’ against his country and accused it of ‘neo-colonial ambitions.’ The French foreign ministry called the decision ‘hostile and unfounded’ and said it ‘illustrated the troubling drift by the Burkinabe government.'” (06/27/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7vymlgl5vgo
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joshua Mawhorter
“It is not uncommon for people to conflate victory and liberty with centralization and inflation. Even in the case of the American Revolution—which was relatively decentralized—many at the time, and others since, argued that monetary inflation, standing armies and a state-centric approach to war, consolidation under a centralized national government, direct taxation, and central banking were all necessary to achieve victory and independence. The not-too-subtle implication is that liberty depends on big government.” (06/26/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/myth-nationalist-victory-articles-confederation-and-bank-north-america
Source: Liberal Currents
by Jake Pitre
“Larry Ellison’s growing influence in tech, media, and politics embodies our new age of oligarchic control.” (06/26/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/welcome-to-gilded-age-2-0/
Source: Politico
“Opening Pope Leo XIV’s closed-door conference of the world’s cardinals on war, the Vatican’s doctrinal chief accused the European Union of applying international law selectively, sanctioning some military invasions while treating others differently. The rare gathering was called by Leo to examine what he calls a global “culture of power” that fuels modern conflict and to consider how the Church should respond. A central focus of the discussions was the pope’s effort to rethink the traditional doctrine of a just war, which he argues has too often been invoked to justify military action. That position has already brought Leo into conflict with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who challenged the pope’s interpretation of Catholic teaching after Leo questioned whether the U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran could meet the criteria of a just war.” (06/28/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/vatican-pope-leo-xiv-accuses-eu-of-double-standards-on-war
Source: Reason
“The Right Way To Fight a Trade War.” (06/26/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/06/26/the-right-way-to-fight-a-trade-war/
Source: Cato Institute
by Matthew Cavedon
https://www.cato.org/commentary/justice-matters-jury-service-gives-extraordinary-power-ordinary-people
Source: American Greatness
by Thaddeus G McCotter
“By statute, the approval process of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to determine the safety and effectiveness of a new drug. If both requirements are met, the new drug is approved. The process usually takes roughly a decade. Most people would reasonably assume the lengthy approval process is due to the need to prove a new drug is safe for use by patients. But the years-long lag between a drug’s submission for approval and its arrival on the market often stems from the process of assessing its effectiveness. The easiest way to think about it is this: determining safety protects patients; determining effectiveness protects consumers.” (06/27/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/06/27/save-american-lives-and-prosperity-by-cutting-the-fda-bureaucracy/
Source: Fox News
“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., revealed that she believes Congress should look to break up companies like Apple amid news that the tech giant might soon raise its prices on phones and laptops due to a strained processing chip supply chain. ‘We need to break up a lot of these companies that are far, far too big and we need to be instituting consumer protections for people,’ Ocasio-Cortez said. … ‘The problem that we have is that these big companies think they are governments. They want to be governments. They want to have totally unchecked power,’ Ocasio-Cortez said.” (06/28/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-major-tech-company-on-notice-amid-looming-price-increases-far-too-big
