Think More: Thursday, May 7, 2026
Jayapal admits to brokering oil for Cuba, Voegeli on a Democratic Party with no center, Solomon on the 2020 China cover-up, and Klavan on OpenAI's vanishing red lines.
Jayapal Admits to Brokering Oil for the Castro Regime
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) admitted at a Seattle briefing that she has been working with Mexican and Latin American ambassadors to ship oil to Cuba in defiance of Executive Order 14380. Sen. Rick Scott and former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy invoke the 1799 Logan Act, which bars unauthorized negotiations with foreign governments.
Higher Education Treats Masculinity as a Pathology
Rebekah Wanic • Minding the Campus
Men now make up 41 to 44 percent of U.S. undergraduates, down from rough parity in the 1970s, and women dominate graduate programs and entire fields. Universities increasingly treat masculine qualities like risk-taking and tolerance of failure as pathologies, not virtues.
Sullivan Has Become a License to Lie
Sekulow’s ACLJ has filed its reply brief in Dershowitz v. CNN, asking the Supreme Court to reconsider New York Times v. Sullivan (1964). Both the district court and Eleventh Circuit Judge Barbara Lagoa agreed CNN had lied about Dershowitz on air; only Sullivan kept him from a jury.
Texas Banned Critical Race Theory; Its Superintendents Are Still Writing About It
Carl Fahrenwald and Garion Frankel • The American Mind
Texas banned critical race theory in 2021 and tightened the rule with Senate Bill 12 in 2025. Yet at Texas A&M, the share of superintendent records of study containing DEI-coded material held steady at 29 percent before and after the ban.
Iran’s American Apparatchiks Are Losing Their Green Cards
ICE and the State Department are systematically revoking the green cards of Obama-era Iranian LPRs tied to the regime, including the son of 1979 hostage-crisis spokesperson Masoumeh Ebtekar and the daughter of the late Ali Larijani. Lawdan Bazargan of the Alliance Against Islamic Regime of Iran Apologists estimates 30 to 50 more such operatives still require vetting.
The Democratic Party Has No Center Left
William Voegeli • Claremont Review of Books
From 2012 to 2024, Democrats moved sharply left on every issue and lost ground with every demographic except college-educated whites; Gallup’s August 2025 poll finds 66 percent of Democrats now view socialism positively. The Mamdani and Wilson mayoral wins, Mejia’s primary victory in suburban New Jersey, and Gov. Spanberger’s quick DEI pivot in Virginia mark a party whose moderate wing has surrendered.
The Intel Community Hid China’s 2020 Election Meddling From Trump
John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy • Just the News
DNI Tulsi Gabbard has spurred an investigation into evidence the intelligence community hid Chinese and Venezuelan election interference from President Trump and Congress, including whistleblower Christopher Porter’s claim that an analyst was pressured to alter evidence of Chinese meddling. CIA Director John Ratcliffe says the result was a false public impression that Russia interfered in 2020 and China did not.
OpenAI’s Ethical Lines Have a Five-Minute Half-Life
Spencer A. Klavan • Law & Liberty
OpenAI’s ban on military use of its models lasted until February 2026, when Sam Altman signed a Pentagon contract as Operation Epic Fury opened the war on Iran, while telling staff targeting calls are not OpenAI’s to make. Citing McLuhan and Plato’s Socrates, Klavan argues a tool’s architect is rarely the man best placed to judge its consequences.
The Quiet Patriot Rebuilding America’s Workforce
Salena Zito • The American Spectator
Thomas Tull, minority owner of the Steelers and Yankees, has converted a one-million-square-foot former Alcoa plant in New Kensington, Pennsylvania into Re:Build, partnered with Carnegie Mellon and Mike Rowe’s foundation. American manufacturing employment peaked near 20 million jobs in 1979; Tull frames the project as a patriotic obligation, not a business.
Apple vs. Google Is the Wrong Frame
Joshua Levine • Foundation for American Innovation
Levine argues the standard open-versus-closed frame obscures the real tradeoffs in mobile policy, and proposes a “mobile trilemma” in which privacy, security, and integration cannot all be maximized at once. The framework reshapes debates over interoperability mandates, sideloading rules, and the antitrust litigation circling Apple and Google.
