The global tech supply chain "is starting to rattle and even break, as the global tech industry works to become less dependent on China," writes Chris Miller in the Atlantic. Miller identifies Apple's supply-chain restructuring as an example of how tech giants, long reliant on Chinese manufacturing and Beijing's largesse, are responding in complex ways to rising tensions.

While the Air Force transitions to its recently unveiled B-21 stealth bomber, Mackenzie Eaglen and Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) argue the current US bomber fleet must be maintained and enhanced to deter global threats. "Bombers are the tip of the spear to project air power," write Eaglen and Arrington. "For deterrence to be credible, hard power is essential."

In the latest report from AEI's Survey Center on American Life, Daniel A. Cox, Jennifer Benz, and Lindsey Witt-Swanson track COVID-19's effect on Americans' religiosity. A decline in service attendance, the coauthors find, was the pandemic's largest impact on religious life in America.

Writing in National Review, Michael R. Strain mourns the loss of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and reflects on the most surprising yet meaningful lesson he learned from "one of the greatest minds to sit on the throne of Saint Peter."

Michael Rubin contends that Russia's vaunted Wagner Group paramilitary is not the formidable force it claims to be. A string of failed operations in Africa, writes Rubin, shows that these "Russian guns-for-hire" are unlikely to turn the tide in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.