For the Week of August 10, 2026

From frozen assets to global oil shock: How U.S. sanctions and Iran’s Hormuz threat could reshape energy markets: The proposed seizure of Iranian sovereign assets has prompted threats to Strait of Hormuz shipping, exposing Europe’s energy vulnerabilities and increasing risks of prolonged oil market volatility, says Ella Rosenberg

The left’s faux outrage over settlements to victims of lawfare: Some of the victims of lawfare have started to receive financial settlements and not surprisingly, writes Rachel Alexander, the political left is hypocritcally condemning the payouts

The long defeat -- Where the Canadian Right went wrong – updated to 2026 (Part Three): Mark Wegierski looks at the failure of former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a politician who had all the tools available to him but failed the conservative agenda in many ways

What an awful jobs report! And don't skip over the revisions: Every month Americans are greeted with the latest jobs reports, the markets react and everyone goes about their business. Mike Maharrey believes that those numbers are rarely worth the paper their printed on

Want more black doctors? Improve K-12 education first: Stacy Washington argues that you can't expect to have more minority doctors when so many communities are failed in the education system straight from the start

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