Source: Brownstone Institute
by Meryl Nass

“The battle over the Save Our Bacon Act is not merely a dispute about pork production or animal welfare standards. It is a constitutional and political struggle over whether states retain meaningful authority to govern agricultural commerce within their own borders — or whether that authority will increasingly be consolidated in Washington at the urging of large corporate interests. At the center of the debate lies a broader question that has shaped American federalism since the founding of the republic: who decides how communities govern themselves?” (05/29/26)

https://brownstone.org/articles/should-an-industry-friendly-rider-in-the-farm-bill-override-over-1000-state-laws/

Source: Show-Me Institute
by Cory Koedel

“During his State of the State address in January, Governor Mike Kehoe indicated Missouri is opting into the federal government’s new school choice tax credit program. The program resembles Missouri’s MOScholars program. Taxpayers can receive a dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit for donations up to $1,700 annually to a scholarship-granting organization, or SGO, in Missouri. The SGO then distributes scholarships to families in Missouri seeking alternatives to their residentially assigned public schools. For many families, the scholarships will be used to pay private school tuition. But the potential is broader.” (05/29/26)

https://showmeinstitute.org/article/education/the-dicey-details-of-the-federal-governments-new-school-choice-tax-credit-program/

Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman

“In [Auberon] Herbert’s day, as in ours, people took for granted that the state (‘the people’) may properly exercise power over peaceful others (through, say, a parliament) for a variety of purposes. So he asked, ‘Have men any right to this power?’ And again, ‘If they have it, do they possess it for all matters? If not for all matters, for what matters? and in this last case how are we to tell what these matters are?'” (05/29/26)

https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-the-great-question-facing-humanity

Source: In These Times
by Luis Feliz Leon

“On a patch of sidewalk on a busy industrial corridor in Newark, federal agents with rifles, metal batons, flak vests, and balaclavas faced off against unarmed activists with cardboard signs and a bullhorn. Detained workers could be heard on the soccer field behind the prison walls, shouting in Spanish: ‘Libertad!’ (Freedom!) Since May 22, 300 of them are on a work stoppage and hunger strike. Over video chat, one worker told the crowd outside that they had stopped eating and working for as little as $1 an hour (or no pay at all) to demand an improvement in their living conditions. ​’But that’s not all we demand,’ he said. ‘We are also doing this to demand freedom. We’re not treated like people. We’re treated like animals.'” (05/29/26)

https://inthesetimes.com/article/new-jersey-prison-immigrants-strike-ice-trump