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President Joe Biden and congressional leaders are eager to take a hard stance on China. But some left-leaning Democrats and activists are lobbying for a softer touch, worried new anti-China policies will inflame racism against Asian Americans and lead to an unending conflict with Beijing akin to a new Cold War.

It’s baaaaack! Inflation—the curse that helped make the 1970s a miserable decade—is finally showing up in official government data, though consumers have been encountering it for several months now.

Steven Koonin is one of the country’s top physicists. He worked for President Barack Obama, a Democrat, as Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy.

By: Karl Rove – wsj.com – May 19, 2021 Former Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama have covered the National Democratic Redistricting Committee—formed by Mr. Holder in January 2017 and joined by Mr. Obama in December 2018—with the rhetoric of righteousness. They claim to oppose “extreme partisan gerrymandering” and are pushing for redistricting reform because, according to the…

By: Karl Rove – wsj.com – May 19, 2021 Former Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama have covered the National Democratic Redistricting Committee—formed by Mr. Holder in January 2017 and joined by Mr. Obama in December 2018—with the rhetoric of righteousness. They claim to oppose “extreme partisan gerrymandering” and are pushing for redistricting reform because, according to the…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Security Cabinet agreed to a unilateral ceasefire in its conflict with Gaza on Thursday.  

Our friends on the left think they understand why so many on the right loathe Anthony Fauci, the media-anointed de facto spokesman for coronavirus response despite his being the head of merely one of 27 agencies that operate under the aegis of the National Institutes of Health, which in turn is one of many agencies in the U.S. Department of…

On the menu today: A deep dive into the U.S. military — and former president Barack Obama! — declaring that indeed, pilots encounter flying objects that we cannot identify on a regular basis.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 19, 2021 Each ad treats the companies like a political candidate would an opponent, hitting the company’s reputation and contrasting its high-minded social-justice rhetoric with its other behavior. Nike embraced Colin Kaepernick, the woke former quarterback, one ad says, but “rather than hiring Americans, Nike chose China.” The ad mentions CEO John Donahoe…

The border crisis continues, with the total number of illegal immigrants encountered at the border in April at a 21-year high for that month.

It now heads to the Senate for approval, where resistance to the bill is mounting.