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Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Be careful where you jump a fence this week, or you might face federal charges. So a country with a bad government is in the World Cup. Should you root for them, stay away, or maybe it’s not that simple? We’ll dive into the situation with Iran’s men’s soccer team, then move on to what might be the worst new thing about this World Cup (not hydration breaks, sorry!), and close with five thoughts about golf’s U.S. Open. Don’t miss sports coverage from Jason Russell and Reason. Congratulations to Giannis Antetokounmpo…

Contradiction has struck East Asia: the countries most deeply integrated into China’s vibrant economic system are also drawn into military preparations to confront it.  (Via Tricontinental Institute) By Vijay PrashadTricontinental: Institute for Social Research The Okinawan artist Kinjo Minoru is haunted by the tragedy of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa and the military occupation that has marked the island ever since. His art is informed by that sensibility; his sculptures seem to emerge from the earth itself. Human figures struggle outwardly through stone and concrete, their bodies marked by war, occupation and memory.  Kinjo works with the same materials today being poured…

The Supreme Court will soon decide Trump v. Barbara, in which the president seeks by executive order to overturn the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment. The amendment as currently interpreted says almost any child born on U.S. soil is automatically and forever an American citizen. The court will most likely reflect long precedent to allow birthright citizenship as it exists today to stand unaltered. But its decision will have profound secondary effects, not the least of which is determining the future of birthright citizenship tourism and its possible effect on national security. The question of whether most children born…

June 23, 2026 Laura Flanders New York City’s history is rich with examples of winning people’s movements and progressive change — and we’ve shared many of those stories on Laura Flanders & Friends. With the election of Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s first democratic socialist mayor, initiatives like city-owned grocery stores and public banking will introduce even more people to the new economy models we champion on this show. But the question of the city’s economy is not new. Today we’re turning back the clock to 2019, the year we learned about worker cooperatives and public ownership experiments in New…

Disagreements emerged Tuesday between Washington and Tehran over the outcomes so far of negotiations to end the Iran War, as the conflict entered its 116th day. In a Truth Social post on Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump reiterated that the Strait of Hormuz would remain open “with no further Naval Blockade,” while adding that Iran has “fully and completely agreed to highest level Nuclear inspections.” Trump said that “if they did not agree to this, there would be no further negotiations.”  Iran’s Foreign Minister Esmaeil Baqaei told a press pool on Tuesday morning that Iran “has not had a meeting…

It was a little after 6 p.m. on Sunday night—that bizarre time when buying booze is simultaneously legal and illegal in Minnesota. I’d been catching up with some old friends at Utepils Brewing in Minneapolis and, as we headed for the door, I grabbed a few cans of the brewery’s signature pilsner, intending to bring them home. The bartender refused to let me buy them. Had I had too much? Hardly. In fact, she would have been happy to pour another round of drinks for all of us. The beer was perfectly legal to be sold, and the cans in…

America’s most powerful central banker and an apostle of freedom and free enterprise, Alan Greenspan, passed away at age 100 early this morning. May he rest in peace. He served as Federal Reserve chairman between 1987 and 2006. Nearly 20 years. He was a great man. And a friend and mentor to myself and many other conservative economists. And during his period as Federal Reserve chairman, he prosperously piloted our economy through 3.2 percent annualized real GDP growth per year and an average of 2.5 percent inflation, even as he successfully navigated us through a number of crises. Meanwhile, job…

Monday, June 22nd on RealClearPolitics – Joined by Greg Swenson, Chairman of Republicans Overseas UK Source link

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Cascadia has a flag and a strong bioregional identity. Should it become an independent country? The New York Times has discovered Cascadia. Specifically, it has found news of an emerging Cascadia independence movement fit to print. In the June 13th edition, it published an article, “Independent Cascadia? Greater Idaho? Disunited States Look Toward Divorce.” Times Northwest correspondent Anna Griffin reported on contrasting movements from the left to declare Cascadian independence from the U.S., and from the right for eastern Oregon to secede and join Idaho. The piece is behind a paywall, but you can read the full article linked here.)…