The Penal Leviathan: What Wacquant And Rothbard Reveal About Modern Punishment Authored by Luc Lelièvre via Mises Institute, Loïc Wacquant and Murray Rothbard come from completely different worlds. Wacquant, in Punishing the Poor (2009), analyzes how modern states manage marginalized populations through policing and incarceration. Rothbard, in The Ethics of Liberty (1982), argues that the state is a monopoly of coercion and that […]

Soda Purchases Slumped 13% After SNAP Sugary Drink Restrictions Soda purchases fell about 13 percent among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries after 10 states restricted purchases of sugary drinks with SNAP funds in 2026, a study found. SNAP restriction waivers banned non-nutritious items like soda and candy to ensure that taxpayer dollars are directed toward nutritious options that improve health […]

Nvidia Rises After Solid Earnings, Reversing Margin Concerns As Company Guides To 70% 2028 Revenue Growth Update (5:10pm): NVDA stock is very volatile, and after sliding 3% at first on solid earnings but weak margin guidance, the stock has since recovered and is up over 5% as the earnings call begins, on the following comments from Jensen Huang: *NVIDIA CFO SAYS SEEING DEMAND ACCELERATION EVEN AT OUR SCALE *NVIDIA CFO SAYS REVENUE […]

US Special Forces Conducting Operations Inside Ecuador Authored by Kyle Anzalone via Antiwar.com, An Ecuadorian official confirmed that US Green Berets were engaged in anti-cartel operations. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump formed a coalition, dubbed Shield of the Americas, that was aimed at combating cartels in Latin and South America. A local official told AFP and UPI that US special forces have been conducting […]

University Of Maryland Warns Trump’s Four-Year Visa Cap Could Crush Graduate Enrollment By 30% The Trump administration is overhauling rules governing the length of stay for international students and exchange visitors, replacing a decades-old system with a fixed period of up to four years. Beginning Sept. 15, most people entering on F-1 and J-1 visas will no longer be admitted for “duration of status,” which generally allows them […]

Hormuz And The Law Of Diminishing Returns: When Leverage Burns Authored by Tamuz Itai via The Epoch Times, For months, the assumption that the Strait of Hormuz was Tehran’s ultimate card dominated commentary on the war. Vessels are seen in the Strait of Hormuz, off the port city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran on Aug. 10, 2026. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images As a narrow waterway through which roughly one-fifth of the world’s […]

Pennsylvania Reports Two Deaths From Measles As US Cases Hit Highest Level Since 1991 Two people have died in connection with measles in Pennsylvania, state health officials announced on August 25. A health worker prepares a measles vaccine at a government health center amid a vaccination campaign, in Nejapa, El Salvador, on April 10, 2026. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas The Pennsylvania Department of Health said the deaths were “related to […]

Waste Of The Day: Deficit Could Surpass $2 Trillion Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, The federal deficit will be $2.1 trillion when fiscal year 2026 ends on Sept. 30, the Congressional Budget Office projected in its monthly budget review. The deficit – the gap between what the government spends and what it collects from taxes and other revenue – has never surpassed $1.8 trillion, except during the Covid-19 […]

US Officials Reveal Reason For CIA Chief’s Surprise Moscow Visit Update(2030ET): The Wall Street Journal has late in the day Wednesday revealed the reason for CIA John Ratcliffe’s surprise visit to Moscow yesterday where he met with top Kremlin intelligence leaders, citing officials. It was to warn against attacking NATO countries, says the Journal: The surprise visit by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency to […]

How Many $2,500 Foldable iPhones Will Apple Ship In Year One? IDC Has The Answer Apple is set to unveil its first foldable iPhone at the company’s September 9 product event at 1300 ET. Ahead of what could be Apple’s biggest handset launch in many years, technology market research firm International Data Corporation, better known as IDC, issued a new forecast estimating just how many foldable iPhones Apple could ship during the […]

Japan Holds Off On New Oil Reserve Release Despite September Import Drop Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Japan expects its oil imports next month to be lower than this month’s but has no plans to release additional crude from storage, the country’s economy minister said. Oil imports next month are seen at 80% of the average monthly for 2025, Ryosei Akazawa said, as quoted by Reuters. The report noted that the August […]

Iran Says Persian-Language Media Outlets ‘Funded By CIA’ Are Military Targets One key tool Washington has long utilized for influence operations and covert regime change plotting abroad has long been the establishment of foreign media for political messaging. The idea is that a foreign language satellite news channel gets presented as ‘independent’ while in reality it beams propaganda onto a unsuspecting population within a […]

India’s Crude Import Bill Surges As Hormuz Shipping Rates Soar Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, India’s crude oil import bill has soared since the Iran war choked Middle Eastern oil supply, raised benchmark crude prices, quadrupled freight rates, and boosted insurance on a single Strait of Hormuz voyage to never-before-seen highs. India has been paying elevated prices to import Middle Eastern crude not only […]

Activist Obama Judge Bends The Knee, Lifts Block On Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Restrictions After USSC Ruling A federal judge in Massachusetts on Wednesday lifted her own order blocking the postal service from implementing election integrity measures for mail-in ballots.  US District Judge Indira Talwani issued the block after the League of Women Voters challenged proposed USPS rules that said states had to provide a list of voters […]

Another Major Russian Refinery Up In Flames As Diesel Nears Historic Highs On Wednesday Ukrainian forces struck a Wildberries facility deep inside of Russian territory for the second time this summer. The warehouse in the central Tambov region city of Kotovsk was first targeted in July, but this time the large complex has been “completely” destroyed in the resulting fire, Governor Yevgeny Pervyshov confirmed. Wildberries plant […]

Israel Developing Offensive Space Capabilities Authored by Ioannis Vlahos via Antiwar.com, Israel is currently prepared to begin development of offensive space capabilities, including systems designed to defend Israeli satellites from hostile spacecraft, and weapons (including lasers) capable of striking targets from space. It is part of the Defense Ministry’s multiyear budget plan for the space sector, which will include […]

Chinese Hackers Broke Into NASA, Federal Reserve, DOJ & Senate: FBI Announces The United States Department of Justice has on Wednesday announced US authorities thwarted a major state-sponsored hack which saw a temporary intrusion into NASA, the Federal Reserve, Senate, the DOJ, Department of Energy, and the Department of Health and Human services, along with four unnamed companies in the US and South Korea. “Today we announced […]

You Know Things Are Bad When This Has To Be Referred To The DOJ… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Texas Governor Greg Abbott is escalating the fight against what he calls discriminatory religious facilities at two of the state’s busiest airports. After DFW Airport scrapped plans for more Islamic ablution stations under pressure, Abbott has referred both Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Houston’s George […]

Don’t Trust The Midterm Polls Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via The Epoch Times, This is a lightly edited transcript of an Aug. 24 segment of the “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” podcast. Let’s have a periodic check on the status of the midterms that we’re now less than 80 days away from. The Democrats are riding high. They feel that historical trends, i.e., 39 out of the last 41 midterms, the party in the White House […]

US Universities Had Extensive Ties With Chinese Defense Research Labs, Air Force Study Finds Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, Thirty U.S. academic institutions have until Aug. 31 to examine specified foreign research ties or risk losing eligibility for future federal research funding. A model of a Chinese-made J-35A stealth fighter is displayed at an AVIC (China Aviation Industry Corporation) stand during the 15th […]

Secret Service Aware Of Iranian Video Threat Against Barron Trump Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Secret Service confirmed on Aug. 25 it is aware of a video aired by Iranian state-run media that appears to threaten President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron, and places a $10 million bounty on him. “The U.S. Secret Service is aware of the video and investigates anything that can be perceived as a […]

Coinbase CEO Considers Joining California Exodus Over “Deeply Un-American” Wealth Tax Proposal Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong could be the next Silicon Valley billionaire to flee California over a union-backed, draconian wealth tax scheme that critics slam as a radical wealth grab. “I think it’s deeply un-American to seize people’s assets. It might be unconstitutional,” Armstrong, who has an estimated net worth of $8.8 […]

The Reason For The Tech Backlash Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times, The backlash against data centers has shocked political and financial elites. It’s because it seems to stretch across the left-right divide. Indeed, it seems like the one thing most Americans can agree on: these centers need to be curbed and controlled. Part of this backlash is also targeting the Flock cameras taking over urban areas with new forms […]

Glacier Wall Collapse May Have Sparked Deadly Flash Flood That Swallowed Nepal-Tibet Border Crossing Summary: Glacier Collapse May Have Sparked Nepal Flash Flood 100 Dead, 300 Missing, according to Nepal’s government (54 Americans among hundreds missing)  Deadly Flash Flood Near Nepal’s Border with Tibet Swallows Entire Border Crossing Experts Say Glacier Collapse Sparked Deadly Flooding Reuters reports that the massive, “Day […]

Wheat Futs Surge To Three-Year High As JPMorgan, HSBC Warn Global Food Shock Is Brewing Wheat futures surged to a three-year high on Wednesday morning as traders repriced a nasty convergence of supply risks across the global agricultural supply chain. Ongoing drone and missile attacks on critical Black Sea shipping and port infrastructure are constraining Russian and Ukrainian exports, while severe Northern Hemisphere heat waves and […]