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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signs sweeping election overhaul bill as ACLU threatens to sue (Erin Mansfield)

The Republican governor of Georgia signed a bill Tuesday that makes dramatic changes to how elections are run in the battleground state just months before the presidential election. Gov. Brian Kemp signed the bill on Monday, his spokesperson, Garrison Douglas, confirmed to USA TODAY. Kemp did not issue a statement or comment on the bill. Kemp’s announcement came …

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Black voters won a big victory in Louisiana. Some White voters said it violated their ‘personal dignity’ (Tierney Sneed and Fredreka Schouten, CNN)

Nearly two years after a federal judge said that Louisiana’s congressional map diluted Black voting power, Black voters are at risk of voting for a second time in an election under a plan that likely violates the Voting Rights Act. In response to the judge’s ruling, the state’s Republican legislature had created a second majority-African …

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