Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“The Iran war is a betrayal of both U.S. interests and constitutional principles. This is a war initiated on the president’s whim. The people do not support it, Congress never authorized it, and our treaty commitments prohibit it. It should never have been allowed to start, but we can end our part in it by refusing to fund it.” (03/19/26)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/not-one-dime-for-aggression
Source: Washington Monthly
by Mike Lofgren
“We’re depleting our big, expensive, Cold War-inspired defensive weapons on Iran’s cheap drones, and if Tehran expands its underwater drone program, look out.” (03/19/26)
Source: New York Times
“Who Is Winning the War in Iran?” (03/19/26)
Source: The UnPopulist
by Jay Michaelson
“They distrust the right but are pained by the left.” (03/19/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/progressive-jews-are-deeply-distressed
Source: US News & World Report
“Lawmakers in Macau, a city under Chinese rule, unanimously approved a bill on Thursday that allows court proceedings to be held behind closed doors when deemed necessary to protect national security [sic] interests. The city enacted its first national security [sic] law in 2009 and tightened it with amendments in 2023. Last July, leading democrat Au Kam San was arrested for alleged collusion with foreign forces to endanger national security [sic], the first known arrest under that law. The new legislation stipulates that judges must refer cases to the city’s Committee for Safeguarding National Security if they believe national security [sic] may be at risk during a public hearing.” (03/19/26)
Source: Fox News
“Conservatives [sic] celebrated Tuesday after a federal appeals court denied California’s request to narrow a Supreme Court ruling on transgender policies, two weeks after the high court dealt the state a major blow in the same case. ‘California has now lost at the district court, lost at the Supreme Court, and been turned away by the Ninth Circuit,’ Executive Vice President of the Thomas More Society Peter Breen said in a statement. ‘The state has repeatedly tried to paint parents who don’t immediately accept their children’s assertion of a new name and gender as ‘abusive.’ The courts have resoundingly rejected that premise.’ The Supreme Court had temporarily blocked California officials on March 2 from interfering with school policies that require parents to be notified if their child identifies as transgender.” (03/19/26)
Source: The Dispatch
“Will Temporary Protected Status for Immigrants End?” (03/19/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/will-temporary-protected-status-for-immigrants-end/
Source: LP Alliance
“Join Amanda and Kyle for a discussion on the Kronstadt Rebellion!” (03/19/26)
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen
“In 2008, a book appeared called Deleting the State: An Argument About Government. It was a trim volume, barely a hundred pages of actual text, but it hit me with the force of a hundred pounds from the very first page. As an undergraduate political science student, I had by that point read Robert Nozick, but I had yet to encounter Murray Rothbard or the broader Austrian and anarcho-capitalist tradition. Aeon Skoble’s book was therefore the first work I encountered that seriously challenged the legitimacy of the state itself. Now the Independent Institute has done a new generation of readers a service by issuing a second edition of this compact but provocative anarcho-capitalist work.” (03/19/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/arguing-against-the-state-without-hesitation
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“We’re in the midst of the quietest government shutdown in American history. For 34 days, funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been blocked in a standoff over the Trump administration’s deeply unpopular immigration enforcement, something the White House has finally realized is such a public opinion disaster that they’ve stopped calling it mass deportation. The biggest public-facing side of this shutdown is Transportation Security Administration workers, who have now worked without a paycheck for a month. But aside from frustration about longer airport security lines, there’s been little pressure on Washington to end the impasse. On Wednesday, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) had his confirmation hearing to run the department that currently has no funding. While his rhetoric was softer, he didn’t really offer many thoughts about the issues in the dispute.” (03/19/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/03/19/government-shutdown-trump-dhs-ice-cbp-funding-congress/