Month: May 2024

No Substitute for Victory: America’s Competition with China Must Be Won, Not Managed (Matt Pottinger, Foreign Affairs)

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Amid a presidency beset by failures of deterrence—in Afghanistan, Ukraine, and the Middle East—the Biden administration’s China policy has stood out as a relative bright spot. The administration has strengthened U.S. alliances in Asia, restricted Chinese access to critical U.S. technologies, and endorsed the bipartisan mood for competition. Yet the administration is squandering these early …

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East Asia’s Coming Population Collapse: And How It Will Reshape World Politics (Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs)

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In the decades immediately ahead, East Asia will experience perhaps the modern world’s most dramatic demographic shift. All of the region’s main states—China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—are about to enter into an era of depopulation, in which they will age dramatically and lose millions of people. According to projections from the Population Division of …

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No shade, no water, no breaks: DeSantis’ new law threatens Florida outdoor worker health (Kate Cimini, USA Today)

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NAPLES, Fla. – In South Florida, one of the state’s hottest regions, María González works outdoors cleaning planes. González spends her nights on the airport tarmac doing deep cleans of planes – scrubbing away feces, vomit, animal and human hair and more. Often, she said, airline staff turn off the plane’s air conditioning to save …

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Whatever Happened To Equality Of Opportunity? (David Davenport, Hoover Institution)

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Americans have consistently said they believe in the principle of equality ofopportunity. As the authors of a Brookings Institution study on the subjectconcluded: “Americans believe in opportunity. . . . They are far more interestedin equal opportunity than in equal results.” These days, however, that notion isunder constant challenge and even attack. Indeed, there are …

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What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign (Josh Dawsey and Maxine Joselow)

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Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy, as well as other initiatives opposed by the fossil fuel industry. As Donald Trump sat with some of the country’s top oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago Club last month, one executive complained about how they continued to face burdensome environmental regulations despite …

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The End of Old Left-wing Mythologies (Victor Davis Hanson)

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The current radical and often violent protests on mostly blue-state, supposedly elite campuses have exposed in toxic fashion what the left has become. And yet, in a paradoxical fashion, the campus insanity has offered the nation some moral clarity. What’s surprising is not that the demonstrators are violent and nihilist, but that they are, on …

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