RealClearInvestigations' Picks of the Week

What if China launched an all-out military invasion to seize Taiwan, the island 90 miles off its coast that it regards as a renegade province? Could the U.S. turn it back? The answer seems to be an unsettling no, at least not without paying a heavy price, Richard Bernstein reports for RealClearInvestigations, drawing on years of war-game simulations by the Pentagon and the Rand Corp. Put another way, against the Red Team, the Blue Team comes out looking more like the Black-and-Blue Brigade.

This article reports that at least fifty workers have died and hundreds of other have sick fallen after cleaning up a large coal ash spill in Tennessee without proper gear.

This article reports that a review of data from the 1980s through last year found that the SEC brought just 32 insider trading enforcement actions in 2019, the lowest number since 1996.

This article reports that some community members rallying against the proposed seawall expansion are directing their criticism at the former president, who staked his legacy, in part, on fighting climate change and promoting environmental sustainability.

This article reports that "Antiracist Baby" is part of a growing genre of books often pushed by librarians that seeks to convince children to recognize and then reject their whiteness.

The article also reports that "No one suggests America could have avoided the pandemic. But the 21-day delay prevented testing that might have limited the spread and alerted cities like New York and Seattle to shut down sooner, many public-health authorities say." Or not.

Then it hammers home their complicity by noting that the intelligence report - first reported by the New York Times - also maintains that high ranking Chinese Communist Party officials in Beijing withheld coronavirus information from the world and the World Health Organization as they tried to gather more data from Wuhan.

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