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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
We can still prevent history from repeating.
Two thousand years ago, an eminent Roman historian coined the popular aphorism, “Better late than never.” His name was Titus Livius, anglicized as simply Livy. True to the aphorism, he wrote much that deserves overdue attention today.
These results should be alarming for those who believe in free markets.
Anew poll from Axios/SurveyMonkey is out on how Americans view free-market capitalism and socialism. The initial takeaway, as we’ve seen with many other polls in recent years, is that overall support for socialism is on the rise while the appeal of capitalism is ebbing away.
A growing movement of local governments and communities across the United States is beginning to grapple with an unfortunate realization: The highway boom of the 1950s and ’60s produced a massive amount of infrastructure that seems to have done more harm than good.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
As the U.S.-Canada border remains closed, many small towns in Eastern Washington and North Idaho are just barely hanging on. Most are almost completely dependent on Canadians who come down for tourism, cheap gas or goods they can’t get up north. In normal times, most of the cars in town have Canadian plates. Gas stations sell fuel in liters, and stores have both Canadian and American cash registers. Residents with dual citizenship or family on both sides go back and forth regularly. For many in the U.S. towns, Canada has the closest Walmart or grocery store. They have doctors, pharmacists and mechanics just past the patrol. Canada, with U.S. support, announced June 18 the border would stay closed to nonessential travel through July 21, but it loosened some restrictions on fully vaccinated Canadians. Starting July 5, fully vaccinated Canadians no longer have to quarantine for two weeks upon returning to Canada. A negative COVID-19 test is still required.
As Senate Republicans were blocking a bill to expand voting rights for Americans, the Chinese government was destroying Apple Daily, the pro-democracy tabloid that campaigned for greater voting rights in Hong Kong. The comparison is worth making, because of the way China has systematically shredded Hong Kong’s democratic freedoms over the past year. Under cover of a new national security law, and COVID-19, Beijing has diminished voting rights, while arresting pro-democracy activists and muzzling the media. This should be a sharp reminder of the current threats to America’s democratic institutions. Our threats come, not from Beijing but from within – from GOP leaders undermining the concept of free and fair elections in an effort to rig the system in their favor.
Last Thursday, with the threat of the pandemic waning, Inslee attempted to strike a middle ground by implementing a “bridge” extension of the moratorium. People on both sides of the debate were left irked and confused. Spokane-area tenant advocates quickly voiced concern about potential loopholes and workarounds in the governor’s plan, while landlords said many property owners are falling into debt as the state limits their ability to evict tenants who have willfully neglected to pay rent. “It feels like a really shaky, unsteady bridge in Spokane,” said Terri Anderson, Spokane director of the Tenants Union of Washington State.
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