Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wulliam L Anderson

“The doctrines of socialism have been with us for more than 150 years, but no one had really tried it in a total way until the advent of the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the early 1990s. During that period, a number of communist/socialist revolutions occurred in Asia, Cuba, and Africa, all of which provided a laboratory to observe how these socialist economies would perform. The socialist economies failed spectacularly, as Ludwig von Mises had predicted. … But despite socialism’s many failures as an economic system, it is more popular than ever as a political system.” (11/20/25)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/socialism-political-doctrine-not-economic-one

Source: The Hill
by Robby Soave

“The Trump administration signaled [Tuesday] that it was moving forward on one of President Trump’s key election promises: shutting down the Department of Education. As someone who has advocated for this outcome for many, many years, I am personally thrilled it’s finally coming. The administration announced that the department’s core functions would be handed off to other agencies in anticipation of finally closing down. Actually abolishing the Education Department would take an act of Congress, though the Supreme Court has OK’d Trump’s move to fire many of the department’s bureaucrats, which is a good start. Frankly, it’s astonishing that this is actually happening. Republicans have been promising to shut down the Education Department for 50 years. (11/19/25)

https://thehill.com/opinion/robbys-radar/5613084-trump-administration-shuts-education-department/

Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob

“President Trump is doing something many of his supporters said they wanted him to do: act not like a normal politician but like a businessman, for Americans, as if we were stockholders in a for-profit company. Bring in the dough. Efficiently. … That’s never been the recipe for republican governance and can so easily and quickly devolve into plutocratic socialism-for-the-rich. There’s no shouting ‘limited government’ about what Trump boasts of regarding ‘the deals’ he makes for the U.S. For ‘us.'” (11/20/25)

https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/11/20/businessman-rule/

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Hayley Tsukayama

“Widespread news reports indicate that President Donald Trump’s administration has prepared an executive order to punish states that have passed laws attempting to address harms from artificial intelligence (AI) systems. According to a draft published by news outlets, this order would direct federal agencies to bring legal challenges to state AI regulations that the administration deems ‘onerous,’ to restrict funding to those states that have these laws, and to adopt new federal law that overrides state AI laws. This approach is deeply misguided.” (11/20/25)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/trump-administrations-order-ai-deeply-misguided

Source: Common Dreams
by Lewis M Steel

“Fifty-seven years ago, I authored an article in the New York Times Magazine provocatively titled: ‘Nine Men in Black Who Think White’. It argued that the Supreme Court had long been one of the major roadblocks to progress on racial justice in this country. Today, the nine black-robed Supreme Court justices include two Black justices, one Latina, and four women. Yet, all the evidence suggests that given the balance of forces on the court, they continue to ‘rule white’, undermining the dreams of a more racially just nation. Yes, three of the justices care deeply about racial justice, but they are only three of nine. Next year, this Court is poised to further gut the signature piece of racial justice legislation of the last century, the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Movements across the nation need to make it clear to the world that this is unacceptable.” (11/20/25)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/supreme-court-racism