To get into one of the nation's elite military academies, students must be nominated by their member of Congress. But those picks go disproportionately to white students, leading some to call for change.
Advocates say more members of Congress should reach out to Black and Latino high school students and make them aware of opportunities at the elite schools.
Wu ZurongResearch Fellow, China Foundation for Int l Studies
Competition between the United States and China has become a hot topic since President Joe Biden took office. Unfortunately, competition in its true sense is not what’s going on. What the U.S. has done in the past four months is a disguise put up by the Biden administration to contain China’s rise. Signs of dangerous consequences have been emerging behind the so-called competition.
First, competition is a political and diplomatic slogan of the Biden administration to hold China down in a wide range of areas. According to Biden’s address to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s 2021 graduating class on May 19, the purpose of competition with China is so the U.S. can “game the system” or tip the rules in its favor.
An Explosion in Texas Shows the Hidden Dangers of Tanks Holding Heavy Fuels
Industry experts believe that changes in the makeup of asphalt and No. 6 fuel oil products stored in heated tanks across the country could pose a risk to workers and nearby communities.
This article was produced in collaboration with Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program.
Justin Chambers arrived at the U.S. Polyco plant in Ennis, Texas, on the morning of April 23, 2018, with a job to do. One of the asphalt tanks at the plant had been damaged and needed to be demolished, and the 32-year-old foreman was part of a five-man crew of contractors charged with getting it done.