Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Keli‘i Akina
“A new report from economists at the University of Hawai‘i makes a point that many of us have known all along: If we want to end the housing crisis, we need to build more homes. That’s because each new unit creates a chain of housing openings. A family that moves into a new house leaves behind an older one that is slightly less expensive, which another family moves into, freeing up another home at a lower price point, and so on. This is often referred to as a ‘filtering effect,’ and it’s not just an optimistic theory—research has revealed it to be true.” (05/11/26)
https://fee.org/articles/more-houses-more-choices/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Peter Campbell
“As we enter another Cold War, we should prepare ourselves for the progressive critics who eagerly allege hypocrisy when democratic powers support non-democracies. In the Free World’s first struggle against a global communist power, the Soviet Union, American statesmen often made the prudential decision to support authoritarian leaders whose interests aligned with America’s. As American statecraft navigates the sequel to that struggle, Hamid’s [book The Case for American Power] is the first of likely many more to critique an American foreign policy that does not have a default preference for democracy.” (05/11/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/an-excess-of-democrophilia/
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The Israeli government is currently accusing The New York Times of antisemitic blood libel for publishing a report on Israel’s already well-documented systemic rape of Palestinian prisoners. Contrary to popular belief, the highest award in journalism is not the Pulitzer. The highest award in all of journalism is being accused of antisemitism by the Israeli government for factual reporting. But the New York Times is unworthy of this award. The Times has been running cover for the Gaza holocaust from the very beginning with extensively documented biases in its reporting, and played a leading role in promoting the atrocity propaganda about mass rapes on October 7. Israel’s abuses were actively facilitated by the New York Times, including its systemic sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners.” (05/12/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/05/12/israel-accuses-the-new-york-times-of-antisemitic-journalism-and-other-notes/
Source: The Dispatch
by Jessica Riedl
“It has become commonplace to dismiss concerns about soaring government debt as much ado about nothing—a modern case of the boy who cried wolf. Indeed, voters have cycled through catastrophic warnings about runaway deficits as far back as the Reagan administration, the 1992 Ross Perot presidential campaign, the mid-1990s ‘Republican Revolution’ in Congress, and the early-2010s Tea Party era. And yet, continually rising budget deficits have not brought a debt crisis. Instead, hysterical deficit concerns have been cynically deployed by minority parties to attack the agenda of the party in power—right before they seize power and start running up deficits of their own.” (05/11/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/debt-gross-domestic-product-ratio-economic-effects/
