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2026-09-10 · opinion — Republicans held a midterm nominating convention. That sentence has no precedent in American politics. Presidential nominating conventions run every four years, in July or August, and they exist to formalize a ticket. Th
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2026-09-02 · opinion — On Tuesday, September 2, 2026, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion that reverses a reading of federal law that stood for nearly thirty years. Under the new interpretation, any state that ac
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2026-08-25 · opinion — California legislators are again pushing a tax on accumulated wealth, and the sales pitch has not changed since the first version landed in Sacramento in 2020. Assembly Bill 2088, introduced by Rob Bonta before he became
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2026-08-17 · opinion — Reuters reported on Monday, August 17, that Iraq is studying the reconstruction of an oil export pipeline running west through Syria to the Mediterranean, a project two sources with knowledge of the plan put at four year
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2026-08-07 · opinion — Anthony Pompliano published a sharp summary of the American reindustrialization thesis on April 18, 2025, built around a podcast conversation with media mogul Barry Diller. The core argument is simple: the United States
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2026-07-30 · opinion — Meta Platforms raised its 2025 capital expenditure guidance to $60-65 billion on July 30, up from a prior estimate of $53-55 billion. The stock dipped in after-hours trading, then recovered. Investors treated the pullbac
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2026-07-29 · opinion — Robinhood Markets reported second-quarter earnings on July 29, 2026, beating Wall Street estimates on revenue and profit. The stock still fell 4% in after-hours trading. The reason: crypto trading revenue dropped to $100
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2026-07-26 · opinion — On July 24, 2026, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a per curiam opinion in Scott v. Collier that contained an unusual addendum. Judges James Ho, Andrew Oldham, and Kyle Duncan did not just rule on the employment
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2026-07-16 · opinion — The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released its 2026 World Drug Report in June, and the data tell a story that drug warriors have spent five decades trying to suppress. Global cocaine production hit a record 2,
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2026-07-10 · opinion — On July 9, 2026, decentralized cloud computing platform Akash Network published what it calls the "Homenode Thesis" on X, outlining a future where individuals run GPU hardware at home, use it for their own AI workloads,
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2026-06-25 · opinion — On June 25, 2026, Reason published an analysis dismantling the latest push for a coordinated global wealth tax, an idea that resurfaces every few years with fresh academic backing and the same fatal flaw. The proposal, m
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2026-06-23 · opinion — Cerebras Systems (CBRS) posted $249.7 million in first-quarter revenue on Monday, a 92% jump from the same period a year ago. The stock fell 11% in after-hours trading anyway. The culprit was a two-to-three percentage po
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2026-06-22 · opinion — The seven stocks that carried the S&P 500 for three consecutive years have shed more than 25% from their December 2024 highs. Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, and Alphabet, collectively worth north of $15 t
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2026-06-05 · opinion — Murray Rothbard never minced words about the misuse of mathematics in economics. In a 1960 essay and throughout his career at the Mises Institute, the Austrian economist argued that formal models, econometric regressions
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2026-06-02 · opinion — On June 2, 2026, Reason magazine reported what the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) had quietly confirmed weeks earlier: the national point-in-time homeless count dropped for the first time in years. Hea
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2026-05-20 · opinion — Subsidy boosters and NIMBY moratoriums both get data center siting wrong. Property rights and nuisance law, not zoning boards, should decide where the AI boom builds.
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2026-05-18 · opinion — The Pomp Letter thesis is well-known: AI shows bubble characteristics historically, but top allocators remain committed.
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2026-05-15 · opinion — A New York appellate court upheld $500,000 in damages against a defendant who filed a false report of assault with police, marking one of the largest civil penalties for fabricated criminal accusations in recent New York