American demand for drone technology is soaring—and a Chinese company dominates the drone market, which, according to Klon Kitchen, means that "we must get serious about securing these systems now." He outlines five steps policymakers could take to protect the country and consumers from potential Chinese government abuse of this emergent technology. Among his suggestions: banning Chinese-made drones from the US market.

Andrew Biggs writes that to save Social Security from insolvency, raising taxes will not be enough. Solving the program's looming fiscal woes may require shifting it in a new direction.

While the Biden administration pushes to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, James Coleman explains why cleaner energy sources aren't yet a viable replacement for oil. The problem with cleaner sources, he contends, "is that, compared to oil, they are far more expensive to transport and store. This is not a mere inconvenience; this is a crucial problem for the affordability and reliability of the global energy system."

Writing in the New York Times, Yuval Levin considers why we are still mostly led by politicians born in the 1940s and '50s and the drawbacks of that aging leadership. "Our politics should prioritize planning for greater national strength in the medium term," he writes, "but we can hardly expect quarreling octogenarians to have that future clearly in mind."

Frederick Hess and Pedro Noguera discuss how teachers should facilitate respectful and meaningful classroom conversations about such difficult subjects as slavery.