Champion of Truth
“President Donald Trump says his tariffs protect American businesses, but more than 700 small businesses represented by We Pay The Tariffs beg to differ.”
https://reason.com/2025/10/30/these-small-business-owners-explain-how-trumps-tariffs-are-more-of-an-existential-crisis-than-covid/
The slaughter was predictable as the RSF set up to take the city, but the world did nothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j86DSJioGLA
Ezra Klein: This Is How Democrats Win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8iw1A2utVA
The Supreme Court has used a doubtful gun study funded by a Second Amendment advocacy group to justify its decisions. The author has not published the study, has not shared the data, refuses to talk to anyone about it, refuses to testify in court about it, and one lawsuit dropped the reference to the study because he refused to testify. How the survey was represented was inaccurate compared to the actual survey questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI5ev8TWAR0
Trump is moving the United States in an authoritarian direction and there is a real question as to whether authoritarianism will consolidate, or Democracy will survive.
There are post-truth authoritarian movements in the West, and it’s not clear which countries will survive as democracies.
Many politicians won’t act against Trump because they are afraid it will hurt their careers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoO3_EaoE6Y
How keeping the Royal Navy at sea kickstarted the Industrial Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_kRMYwzdqc
During the Gaza war, Israel has ramped up its settlement, construction, and dividing of the West Bank, continuing to make a two state solution very difficult when Israel hasn’t made a space for a Palestinian state to exist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-2bCKakP7c
Our current estimates on births may be too high, meaning the demographic crisis is worse than we even think!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeBsN_t84Q0
Rent control helps the lucky people who get a rent controlled apartment, but screws everyone else as there is less incentive to build more housing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KbGulTc4TY
Why New York is Falling for Socialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVU8fS3IJuE