10.26 | Where liberty took root

Mon » Legal Docket · An election-law expert’s love of liberty began with parents who escaped tyranny.

Also: On Moneybeat, David Bahnsen asks what consumer-confidence surveys really tell us. Plus: tariff relief in Maine, France’s debt corner, and California’s wealth tax. WORLD History Book: The Statue of Liberty at 140—and how an abolitionist monument became an icon of immigration.

EP 3516 · Mon Oct 26, 2026

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