Archive for February 2026
Tell Congress: Reject the MEGA and SAVE America Acts
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BILLIONAIRE WINGNUTS EXPECTED MEDIA OWNERSHIP TO BE EASIER
[ad_1] So this just happened: The Washington Post told employees on Wednesday that it was beginning a widespread round of layoffs that are expected to decimate the organization’s sports, local news and international coverage.The company is laying off about 30 percent of all its employees, according to two people with knowledge of the decision. That includes people on the business…Read More
The U.S. public’s view of Trump tariffs was negative at the start. Few if any minds have changed since.
[ad_1] FACT: Most Americans disliked higher tariffs a year ago, and few minds have changed since. THE NUMBERS: CNN/SSRS surveys on Trump tariffs – “Disapprove” “Approve” January 2026 62% 37% July 2025 61% 39% March 2025 61% 39% CNN/SSRS surveys in March 2025, July 2025, and January 2026. WHAT THEY MEAN: Pollsters have been pestering Americans about trade and tariffs since the 1950s,…Read More
The Minneapolis Strategy for Fighting ICE Is Worth Studying
[ad_1] In Minneapolis, years of robust labor and community organizing set the stage for the fierce pushback against federal immigration agents’ aggressive invasion. Their experience may soon be relevant to cities elsewhere in the US facing incursions from ICE.The mass protests against ICE brutality that we’ve seen in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere. They were the product of years…Read More
Kennedy Center teaches MAGA a tough lesson
[ad_1] The myth that Donald Trump has a strategic vision took another hilarious blow on Sunday when het threw a tantrum familiar to anyone who has ever dealt with a diagnosable narcissist. Without apparently telling anyone who actually has to deal with it, the 79-year-old toddler president declared on Truth Social that he was shutting down the John F. Kennedy…Read More
Inside the resistance with Will Stancil
Stancil with his Honda Fit and whistle. (Submitted photo)Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️🚗💨 Subscribe to PN 🚗💨The Trump regime’s brutal and ongoing occupation of Minneapolis and the greater Twin Cities area has put this community to the test. Countless folks have risen to the challenge and sprung into action to protect their neighbors.Among them is…Read More
Frenemies Behind the Veil of Ignorance
[ad_1] Despite being popularly positioned as leading advocates of opposing political philosophies, the signature works of public choice founder James Buchanan (with co-founder Gordon Tullock) and philosopher John Rawls share the same foundational approach. While Buchanan became more critical of Rawls’s work when A Theory of Justice finally appeared in 1971, his criticisms are more tempered than many readers would…Read More
TR in the Arena
[ad_1] Theodore Roosevelt came of age and rose to prominence in the late 1800s and, arguably, launched what Time magazine publisher H. R. Luce would later call the “American Century.” As the Gilded Age faded, Roosevelt shaped America’s entry into world affairs and created the impetus for a robust America First foreign policy and hegemony in the Western Hemisphere. By…Read More
Office Hours: The Worst Big-Money Group
[ad_1] Friends,Buckle up. Primary elections start in a few weeks. Primaries have become increasingly important because, as American politics has polarized, most Republican or Democratic candidates who prevail in the primaries will win the general elections — so primary elections are often where the action is. So, what determines who wins primaries? I’d like to think it’s the quality of…Read More
Javier Pérez Sandoval Reveals Democracy’s Hidden Vulnerability: The Hollowing of the State
Javier Pérez Sandoval is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Democracy in the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent article (coauthored with Andrés Mejía Acosta) is “Why Populists Hollow Out Their States.” The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. By…Read More