Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute

“To the Democratic Socialists of America and their fellow travelers, ‘The Moment’ has arrived. With the victory of Zohran Mamdani in New York City’s mayoral election Tuesday night, the DSA has another attractive face to add to its advocates nationwide, someone to complement Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders as socialism marches to its inevitable triumph over the entire United States. As one who believed that the US was on its way to a real revolution of free markets and personal freedom with the election of Ronald Reagan to the US presidency in 1980, and later his sweeping re-election in 1984, I realize that the DSA supporters who presently are giddy and ready to roll will experience the inevitable disappointment just as the free market supporters of Reagan did 40 years ago. However, before that moment arrives — and it will arrive — the socialists are going to do a lot of damage.” (11/06/25)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/election-mamdani-what-it-means-and-what-it-doesnt-mean

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Wendy McElroy

“Howard Homan Buffett’s concern about foreign intervention predated the Cold War, however. On March 2, 1944, he contested the wisdom of a bill in the House, which was meant to increase America’s oil reserves through the massive taxpayer funding of an Arabian pipeline. Buffett expressed a theme that would permeate his political career: empire versus freedom …” (11/06/25)

https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/howard-homan-buffett-rothbards-favorite-anti-cold-war-warrior-part-2/

Source: Orange County Register
by Veronique de Rugy

“In Washington today, the word ’emergency’ is a magic key; it unlocks powers Congress never granted, suspends the discipline of regular order and decorates bloated bills with provisions too dubious to pass on their own. What was once meant to be a narrow exception for genuine crises has become a routine pretext for government overreach — a means of inflating executive power and corroding the nation’s fiscal credibility. Start with the most brazen claim, and one now being scrutinized by the Supreme Court: that a president may impose sweeping tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act merely by declaring that a half-century of trade deficits constitutes an emergency.” (11/06/25)

https://archive.is/32OTk

Source: TomDispatch
by Beverly Gologorsky

“Aging, like time, ticks on, day by hour by day. Then, suddenly, it’s there, mocking our inability to sweep aside, should we even want to, this iron curtain. For seniors, the concept of time itself differs from that of younger people, because the future is in the everyday. But aging in a Trumpian world brings fear and destruction as strand by strand of the safety net is plucked away until it’s shredded. And Donald Trump doesn’t care. Seniors make up an ever larger American demographic that’s being made ever more unsafe in the richest country in the world. Social Security, healthcare, even access to food, not to speak of general well-being are all under threat. Trump doesn’t care. Social Security is a return on what workers have paid into the federal government over many years…. And count on one thing: Trump doesn’t care.” (11/06/25)

https://tomdispatch.com/aging-in-a-trumpian-world/