Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano

“President Donald Trump’s use of the U.S. military to kill persons on speed boats in international waters, or in territorial waters claimed by other sovereign nations – all 1,500 miles from the U.S. – has posed grave issues of due process. The Constitution’s guarantee of due process requires it for every person, not just Americans. … The Trump administration has claimed that it can kill whomever it designates as an unlawful enemy combatant … and the due process it provides is the intelligence gathered by American spies and the White House analysis of that intelligence. This secret analysis, the government’s argument goes, satisfies the president that the folks he has ordered killed are engaging in serious and harmful criminal behavior, and somehow is a lawful and constitutional substitute for the jury trial and its attendant procedural protections that the Constitution commands.” (10/24/25)

https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2025/10/23/a-trumpian-headache/

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Gary M Galles

“The focus of the current government shutdown circus has increasingly narrowed to Democrat demands to undo proposed reductions in very large, supposedly temporary, Covid-era Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) subsidy boosts. A major part of their public push is the claim that they are trying to save citizens money, though what they are actually demanding is that we shift the burden to future generations via increased federal debt, backed by the threat of demonizing Republicans as heartless for taking away any benefits. They emphasize the need to maintain the ‘great deal’ the ACA offered. The problem with their emphasis was revealed by a recent Washington Post editorial that admitted that ‘The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act [Obamacare] was never actually affordable,’ because ‘policies cost more than expected.'” (10/24/25)

https://fee.org/articles/obamacare-was-never-affordable/

Source: The Bulwark
by Ben Raderstorf

“After Donald Trump’s $40 Bbillion of Argentina, the United States is now tied to the economic fortunes of a country that was once the wealthiest in the world but now ranks just below Kazakhstan. The American taxpayer will be on the hook for a government that has defaulted on its sovereign debt nine times, three of those in the last twenty-five years. But let’s set aside for now the question of whether the bailout is a good idea or a bad one. What strikes me about the Argentina story is how much that country’s history holds up an uncomfortable mirror to our own history of the last few years. … the parallels go back to Juan and Eva Perón, and the Perónism that Trumpism is slowly [sic] beginning [sic] to resemble.” (10/24/25)

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/is-the-argentina-bailout-a-glimpse-of-american-future-peronism-trumpism

Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison

“The president repeated his promise to continue murdering people in his made-up ‘conflict’: ‘Well, I don’t think we will necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we are just gonna kill people who are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We’re gonna kill them. They’re gonna be, like, dead.’ Trump’s statement sums up the core of his foreign policy and how he wields power in general. He is going to unleash death and destruction because he feels like it and because no one is stopping him, and he isn’t bothering with any pretense of respecting the law. The president will order U.S. forces to commit murder without end, and he makes no secret of it. He thinks it is something to boast about. It is the perfect encapsulation of Trump’s tyrannical rule.” (10/24/25)

https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-real-trump-doctrine-were-gonna