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U.S. President Joe Biden arrives to deliver remarks on his economic plan at a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. facility in Phoenix on Dec. 6, 2022

The Hollow Return of American Manufacturing

American factories might come back but the middle class won’t follow

byHirsh Chitkara

International News from The Scroll

Making his first visit to Russia since its invasion of Ukraine, Chinese leader Xi Jinping reaffirmed his bond with President Vladimir Putin on Monday, saying the two nations were “good neighbors and reliable partners” before attending a private state dinner scheduled at the Kremlin. Though Beijing has spent the past several weeks burnishing Xi as a peace negotiator in the conflict, Western leaders have largely dismissed Xi’s role. Soon after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin on charges of war crimes, China’s Foreign Ministry chided the court for its “double standards.”

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is interviewed by CBS News about the Trump administration’s response to the global coronavirus outbreak outside the White House on March 12, 2020

Treason of the Science Journals

How Anthony Fauci manufactured consensus on the origins of COVID-19 with the help of science writers and the media

byAshley Rindsberg

Collapse of the COVID Truth Regime

California’s new misinformation law aims to silence dissenting medical opinions while allowing state-sponsored falsehoods to proliferate unchecked

byAlex Gutentag

If trans was going to be the next civil rights movement, it required not just an oppressed class but also an oppressor class.

—David Moulton, ‘The Great Transitioning’

Collapse of the COVID Truth Regime

California’s new misinformation law aims to silence dissenting medical opinions while allowing state-sponsored falsehoods to proliferate unchecked

byAlex Gutentag

If trans was going to be the next civil rights movement, it required not just an oppressed class but also an oppressor class.

—David Moulton, ‘The Great Transitioning’

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Vol. 2, Issue 12: Surveillance of Arab Americans, reports from Indonesia and South Africa, musical traditions at Bais Yaakov girls schools, a garlic soup recipe, and more

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Airfields, buildings, and structures on the artificial islands built by China in, from top, Mischief Reef, Fiery Cross Reef, and Hughes Reef, in the Spratly Islands, South China Sea, in October 2022

Knight Takes Rook in Cold War II

The new global conflict with Russia and China is playing out like a game of 3D chess, with the U.S. up in some areas but losing in others

byMichael Lind

Also by Michael Lind

Why I Am Against Saving the Planet
(and why you should be, too)
Cold War II
The U.S. is losing its economic advantage in a new era of global conflict
The Power-Mad Utopians
America needs a broad popular front to stop the revolution from above that is transforming the country
The New Gatekeepers
How the major institutions of American society all came to sing in the woke chorus, and what can be done about it
Neoliberal Twee
Cass Sunstein’s latest TED Talk of a book offers the kind of technocratic whimsy that left and right can agree to hate
Labor’s Lost
In America today, we have informal labor cartels for the college-educated elite, while private sector unions for the working class are all but annihilated

Discriminated against while being held up as models of success, these two groups have long followed a common road. Now their prosperity leads to cries of ‘unearned privilege.’ What does this mean for America and its minorities?

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Vehicles including a Port Authority bus are left stranded after a bridge collapsed along Forbes Avenue in Pittsburgh on Jan. 28, 2022

America on Fire

Across the United States, critical infrastructure is breaking down and blowing up in plumes of toxic smoke

bySean Cooper

‘The prospects for Ukrainian freedom may rest on a set of promises and expectations that the West is not prepared to fulfill’

A Devastating Moment of Clarity in Ukraine

Sanctions have failed to break Putin, and the West is running out of missiles and bullets

byJeremy Stern

Welcome to America’s Racialized Medical Schools

byJohn Sailer

A Devastating Moment of Clarity in Ukraine

Sanctions have failed to break Putin, and the West is running out of missiles and bullets

byJeremy Stern

Welcome to America’s Racialized Medical Schools

byJohn Sailer

Politics Dispatch from The Scroll

As President Biden postpones a final decision to announce his campaign for re-election in 2024, the wheels of speculation are turning in Washington, D.C., where donors and possible contenders for the Democratic ticket remain in a state of limbo. “An inertia has set in,” one source close to the Biden camp told Politico. “It’s not that he won’t run, and the assumption is that he will. But nothing is decided. And it won’t be decided until it is.”

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The Dangers of a Sentimental Education

The push for social-emotional learning brings managerial nihilism and corporate profiteering into the classroom under the cover of helping kids

byJasmine Hu Hollingshead

Brokenism

The real debate today isn’t between the left and right. It’s between those invested in our current institutions, and those who want to build anew.

byAlana Newhouse

Writers of the World, Denounce!

Progressive activists repeat the sins of the past

byJames Kirchick