If you watch cable news, which I don’t recommend, you have probably heard complaints about Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s effort to hold the promotions of U.S. military officers under review by the Senate. Hawks and “former” intelligence and defense officials with commentator status claim the delay puts America’s national security at risk. But as former all-star editorial fellow and current contributing editor Harry Scherer’s reporting makes clear, the focus of these candidates’ efforts in our armed forces has not been American preparedness, but rather the implementation of an abortion and equity regime that demands scrutiny from our political representatives.

The Justice Department’s “China Initiative” was an investigation of Chinese technology theft and espionage launched in 2018 but canceled by the Biden administration in 2022 in response to claims of racism. In a Tuesday column, print editor Helen Andrews reviews the late Clinton administration story of one Wen Ho Lee, and concludes that, while there is no way to be certain that he was a spy passing nuclear secrets to the CCP, the conclusion at the time that any suspicion of him was driven by ethnic bigotry has set a dangerous precedent for American counterespionage. The Chinese certainly learned from the scandal: Play the racism card, every time.

Redolent of the late great Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his famous report produced while at the Department of Labor, Sen. Marco Rubio released a report on the state of American men’s un- and under- employment this week. I wrote about it in my column, impressed with its effort to combine a synthesis of serious social science research with a robust policy agenda. “The State of the Working (And Non-Working) Man” illustrates a Senate office taking the long view and the broad view to protect the common man from the inhuman forces of global economic and technological disruption.

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Micah Meadowcroft
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