8.17.26 The government’s case file, the populist right, and the Mona Lisa heist

Legal Docket considers whether the government is assembling the case file before the allegation; David Bahnsen warns the populist right against reaching for the socialist left’s failed economic playbook on Moneybeat ; and the WORLD History Book revisits the theft that made the Mona Lisa immortal—plus the Monday morning news . Support The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donate .…