Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff

“In an era of information overload, genuinely fresh news and concepts can occasionally get obscured by the ‘slop’. But eventually, thought-expanding data and perspectives rise to the surface and into wider public attention. This appears to be the case with a Yale University study on aging in America published in an academic journal in early March. The findings of ‘Aging Redefined’, now being reported in mainstream media, defy – and can help redefine – long-held and limiting views about the United States’ older demographic. Collecting data on some 11,000 participants over a 12-year period, the researchers found that nearly half of American adults age 65 or older became physically stronger, mentally more acute, or both. ‘If this finding was extrapolated to the entire US population, it would suggest that more than 26 million older persons are experiencing [such] improvement,’ the study’s authors noted.” (07/01/26)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0701/Living-better-not-just-longer

Source: Independent Institute
by Robert M Whaples

“In 1976, millions proudly recommitted themselves to the American experiment. Today, we should do the same.” (07/02/26)

https://www.independent.org/article/2026/07/02/recapture-spirit-1976/

Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Tyler MacQueen

“They could have died. We forget that now. After appeals to history and self-evident truths and the long train of abuses and usurpations, the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to a cause that was not certain. To an idea as radical as their revolution. To a notion of a nation yet to be built.” (07/02/26)

https://www.fire.org/news/america-well-give-our-best-you

Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher

“The recent string of primary victories from left-wing insurgents are not ushering out moderates, but fellow progressives.” (07/02/26)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/02/dsa-democratic-party-the-left-vs-left/

Source: Foreign Policy In Focus
by John Feffer

“The Trump administration concluded a recent mineral deal with Kazakhstan that, not surprisingly, enriches not only President Donald Trump’s own family but that of his secretary of commerce, Howard Lutnick. Trump’s two eldest sons, part owners of Dominari Securities, are set to profit from the Kazakh tungsten deal. So is Cantor Fitzgerald, the investment firm run by Lutnick’s two sons. As The New York Times pointed out in its investigation of the scheme, ‘Their sons were soon doing business with partners in a deal that their fathers were negotiating, continuing a pattern of self-enrichment in the second Trump administration that has few precedents in American history.’ The phrases (‘self-enrichment’ and ‘few precedents’) are interesting ways of characterizing this latest instance of the administration’s corruption. Isn’t self-enrichment a good thing, in the sense of profiting from your own hard work?” (07/01/26)

https://fpif.org/trump-enrichment-syndrome/