November 3, 2026

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Established in 1984, the Landless Workers Movement—the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST)—is Latin America’s largest progressive movement. The group believes that agriculturally productive land should be redistributed to the poor to help achieve racial and environmental justice. This summer, MST hosted delegations for outside activists, including several from the U.S., to share some of the methods they’ve used to pursue their goals.

“Those methods, however, are militant, including invasions and mass destruction of private farmland, illegal occupations of government buildings, and violent clashes with political opponents,” Stu Smith writes. “The American participants hope to adapt these methods—many of which may qualify as civil terrorism—for use in the United States.”

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Oakland’s violent-crime rate is among the worst of California’s big cities—it’s about four and a half times the national rate. Oakland also has the highest level of property crime of any large U.S. city. Just 0.1 percent of property crimes lead to an arrest, compared with 10 percent in San Francisco and 13 percent in Berkeley.

Blame Oakland’s dysfunctional police department, Sanjana Friedman writes. It loses several officers every month to attrition and has gone through five chiefs in five years. “The department was so overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands of stolen-vehicle and license-plate alerts it received from its recently installed Flock license-plate cameras that it elected to disable the notifications,” she notes.

The department is also subject to the Oakland Police Commission, a civilian oversight body that, among other policies, implemented a rule that generally permitted officers to chase suspects only for violent crimes.

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In September, a federal oversight board voted to suspend the American Psychological Association as a federal accreditor. If the Secretary of Education approves, the APA will lose its power to accredit educational programs.

The vote comes amid comments from psychologists and policy professionals about the APA’s politicization. Indeed, at an APA conference earlier this year, about 70 of the 90 panels had ideological agendas. The organization has embraced psychotherapies that make questionable claims about “gender identity,” and it has referred to Jews as colonial oppressors.

“The APA’s commitment to social-justice ideology undermines its program quality and non-discrimination standards, commenters noted, particularly in its failure to address complaints of anti-Semitism,” Joseph Figliolia writes. But the organization’s “possible suspension represents a rare opportunity for the APA to reinvigorate its standards and rebuild its organizational culture to promote the interests of psychology trainees and the public they serve—not social-justice ideology.”

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For every recorded month so far this year, prescription drug prices have either been flat or fallen. Year over year, they fell 4.5 percent—the largest drop since 1963.

Thank the Trump administration, Joel Zinberg writes. TrumpRx gives discounts on more than 800 drugs, while the Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) initiative has brought Medicaid drug prices down through agreements with 26 major pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Further, the FDA is working to develop drugs more quickly and at a lower cost. “First-time generic approvals are an important source of competition for expensive brand-name drugs and bring down prices,” Zinberg explains. There were 91 of them last year, up from 76 in 2024. “There were 88 first generic approvals in 2026 through the end of August, so the annual total is well on its way to surpassing that of previous years,” he writes.

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