Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow

“The conflict is a tragedy. Ukraine is suffering greatly, and Moscow is in the wrong. However, blame is shared by the U.S. and Europeans, who did much to turn Russia into an enemy, violating a multitude of assurances to Moscow not to expand NATO. Waging an illegal and aggressive war on Yugoslavia/Serbia, a historic interest of Moscow, over Kosovo was another factor, causing ‘irreparable damage … to Russian perception of NATO,’ according to historian Vladimir Brovkin. Although allied perfidy did not justify Russian aggression, the former helps explain the latter. In any case, Washington should not issue security guarantees against nuclear-armed Russia.” (08/21/25)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-should-keep-the-u-s-out-of-any-future-ukraine-war/

Source: Niskanen Center
by Jessie Goodman

“State policymakers must carefully manage benefit spending and tax revenue to keep Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs financially stable. UI benefits help workers and their families stay afloat while they search for suitable work, but it’s difficult to maintain robust benefits without comparable tax contributions. Unless lawmakers proactively update tax contribution rules, the risk of program insolvency grows.” (08/20/25)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/iowas-recent-unemployment-insurance-reforms-may-undermine-program-solvency/

Source: Pioneer Institute

“After a decade of contentious debate, 30 states and DC — 31 including Texas’s impending plans — are in on private school choice, and roughly a dozen offer universal or near-universal eligibility. School choice policy has been hotly contested, and now, widely accepted and implemented. But it has seldom been understood. Indeed, both its detractors and its proponents harbor serious misconceptions about school choice.” (08/21/25)

https://pioneerinstitute.org/news/school-choice-is-expanding-like-never-before-now-comes-the-real-test/

Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan

“Educated people have fewer kids. Few demographic laws are more strictly enforced. This law doesn’t just fit the modern United States. High-education countries are less fertile than low-education countries, and countries’ fertility erodes as education advances, at least since 1900. Fertility gaps are big: Averaging over the world, low-education women outbreed high-education women by about one-third. Nation-by-nation, disparities of a full child or more are common. In principle, education could be a mask for income, intelligence, status, democratization, or modernization. When statistically challenged, though, education stays strong.” (08/20/25)

https://www.betonit.ai/p/the-effect-of-education-on-fertility

Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine

“Democrats love saying, ‘No one is above the law.’ But that is psychological projection, because we keep seeing entitled Democrats behaving as if they are above the law, pulling rank on cops and generally behaving like entitled brats who think the rules apply to everyone except their precious selves. Exhibit A this week is Rhode Island Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan Hogan, whose drunken antics while resisting arrest outside the upscale Clarke Cooke House in Newport are the latest example of a new genre of viral content: brats resisting arrest. Police bodycam videos go viral because we all love seeing these people get their comeuppance.” (08/20/25)

https://nypost.com/2025/08/20/opinion/miranda-devine-childish-rhode-island-prosecutor-is-latest-example-of-entitled-dems-thinking-they-are-above-the-law/