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

Source: RealClearPolitics
by Debra Saunders

“I’ll admit it: I’ve held President Donald Trump to a different standard than former President Joe Biden when it comes to financial entanglements. Why? For all their ‘Middle Class Joe’ values, Biden and his family — notably, grabby son Hunter — apparently set out to cash in on Biden’s time in public office and after he served as vice president. Hence Hunter Biden’s $2 million pay during 2013 and 2014 as he worked for Ukraine energy concern Burisma. Trump’s money situation was different during his first term. Trump entered the White House a billionaire. The newly elected commander-in-chief lost loads of money during his first four years in the White House …. Trump seems unconcerned about the appearance of conflicts of interest the second time around. Could crypto, then, become his ‘cryptonite?'” (11/20/25)

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/20/burisma_meet_your_brother_binance_153553.html

Source: Libertarian institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen

“For more than two decades, the United States has waged a quiet, little-noticed air and special operations war across the Horn of Africa. If most Americans are unaware of this fact, that is no accident. The campaign in Somalia has been conducted so far from public view, and with so little meaningful debate in Washington, that its continuation today is treated almost as a bureaucratic inevitability—a policy in search of a justification, defended out of habit rather than necessity. For there is no rational reason for the United States to be bombing Somalia at all. The entire enterprise stands as a textbook example of how inertia, institutional self-interest, and the perverse incentives of the national security bureaucracy combine to produce destructive policies that accomplish nothing for the American people.” (11/20/25)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-opportunity-costs-of-our-war-in-somalia