Source: The Daily Economy
by Julian Adorney

“A troubling new piece of legislation continues to make its way through the British parliament. Dubbed the ‘Banter Bill,’ the Employment Rights Bill would criminalize any speech that might be considered offensive by any passerby. As Dominic Green reports for The Free Press, under this proposed law, ‘Britons can be prosecuted for a remark that a worker in a public space overhears and finds insulting.’ Under this standard, whether a certain sentiment (for instance, that Britain should reduce immigration) is legal will now depend on whether someone in the vicinity takes offense. Unfortunately, this new subjective standard for what types of speech are allowed isn’t restricted to Great Britain. In the United States, more and more states are experimenting with a similar system.” (08/21/25)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-dangerous-rise-of-snitch-networks/

Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan

“Until recently, economists — or at least development economists — assumed that birthrates were too high. While they rarely argued for this anti-natal premise, economists’ cost-benefit analyses routinely put ‘fewer births’ on the benefit side of the ledger. Since education, especially female education, seems to strongly reduce fertility, economists standardly named lower fertility as a major social benefit of education, especially female education. … Over the last decade, happily, economists have at long last largely abandoned their casual anti-natalism. Some top economists are now curiously talking about how to raise birthrates. Their tone, however, remains pessimistic …” (08/21/25)

https://www.betonit.ai/p/austerity-for-fertility

Source: Jake Porter’s Analysis & Investigation
by Jake Porter

“Region 1 Representative, Andrew Chadderdon explains his vote against adopting the Special Investigatory Committee’s 94-page report detailing former Chair Angela McArdle’s misuse of funds for her own benefit. In this article, I take apart his entire argument and show it for what it truly is.” (08/22/25)

https://jakeporter.substack.com/p/mcardle-cover-up-continues

Source: TomDispatch
by Tom Engelhardt

“Sometimes I dream — in the sense of a nightmare — about bringing my parents back to this all too strange world of ours to tell them about … yes, of course, Donald J. Trump. They died long before The Apprentice even made it onto TV early in this century, so — best guess — though they also lived in New York, they undoubtedly had never heard of him. My mother died in 1977 when Donald Trump was 31 and Jimmy Carter was president; my father in 1983 when Trump was 37 and Ronald Reagan was president. But nothing, not even Richard Nixon, could have prepared them for a Trump presidency, not once but (yes!) twice. ” (08/21/25)

https://tomdispatch.com/the-ultimate-caricature/