Thursday, February 26, 2026
Trump Policies and “Donald Dash” Expats Produce Net Emigration for US, Prospective Population Shrinkage
The US showed net emigration in 2025, with an increase in expats bumping up over a rising trend line.
Pets Are Expensive and Shelters Are Packed. Advocates Say Mamdani Should Help.
A proposal to fund spay and neuter surgeries plus low-cost vet clinics and pop-up food pantries seeks to keep pets with their families.
The Roots of Nazi Ideology: Arthur Graf J. Gobineau and His Racial-Racist Political Theory
How resentment of the republican ideal of equality stoked the racist theories of Arthur Graf J. Gobineau.
Coffee Break: SOTU 2026 Kabuki Theater, Bipartisan Kayfabe
POTUS Donald Trump’s SOTU 2026 was the usual kabuki theater, aimed at scoring cheap partisan zingers on immigration while ignoring major issues like the Epstein Files, minimizing a possibly imminent attack on Iran, and misrepresenting last week’s SCOTUS ruling on tariffs.
The Work-From-Home Wage Premium
Why do work-from-home employees make more than in-office peers? Worker-boss relations don’t always hew to formalities.
In Praise of the Lunch Ladies Who Can Save Us from the Great American Food System
The Great American Food System™ is productive when measured by output, but it is not particularly good at producing wholesome and healthy food for the American people. The nature of healthy food has been argued for the past sixty years, with various food plates, pyramids, and other arrays used to illustrate recommendations of the day. […]
Senate Democrats to Introduce Bill to Limit Private Equity and Big Investor Ownership of Single Family Homes Despite Nearly Zero Impact on Affordabilty
On of Trump affordability ideas, of limits on big investor ownership of single family homes, is moving forward even though it won’t do much.
How Africa Keeps Losing Despite China v. West Race for Minerals
Africa supplies the minerals for the tech boom – but how it winds up losing out on the gains
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – America’s Coming Suez Moment
In 1956, Britain’s Suez campaign collapsed not because its forces were defeated, but because sterling could not withstand financial pressure. The episode revealed a structural truth: military capability is subordinate to monetary autonomy. Today the United States is not Britain under Bretton Woods, but it faces expanding global commitments alongside rising debt, elevated interest costs, and industrial constraints. This article examines how financial markets, rather than battlefields, may ultimately define the limits of American power. A single geopolitical shock is manageable. A sequence of them may not be. History may not repeat—but it can rhyme.
Republicans Scheming to Preserve Trump Tariffs Even After They Create Fewer Manufacturing Jobs
Trump and his GOP allies still heart tariffs despite failures, such as 2025 net manufacturing job growth ofless than half the year before.
Russia Just Denied Claims It Is Planning to Break the US’ Oil Blockade of Cuba, Albeit Only Partially
The US’ suspension of tariffs on countries that provide Cuba with oil (h/t SCOTUS) may, however, provide a window of opportunity to get oil to the island. But which country will take the risk?
Iran War Watch: Trump Dithers
Trump looks even more caught than ever on the horns of his Iran war dilemma.
