| In Ohio’s Senate race, both candidates are employing anti-Asian rhetoric and neglecting to hold corporations to account.  Illustration by Anson Chan “The casting of China as an economic and ideological foe is a rare area of bipartisan consensus,” E. Tammy Kim writes, in an urgent dispatch from Ohio about the ways that the myths and realities of manufacturing in the Rust Belt are shaping high-profile contests in the midterm elections. While it may be politically expedient for the U.S. to villainize China and other East Asian countries “for propping up private industry and violating labor standards,” Kim finds that both Democrats and Republicans are using similar tactics here at home—at the expense of the workers whose votes they are courting this fall. Kim speaks to a wide range of Ohioans who remain skeptical about the promised return of the glory days for manufacturing, as when Joe Biden recently declared, “the industrial Midwest is back.” As one worker puts it, “The jobs we lost are being replaced by low-wage jobs forty years after the plants closed.” —Ian Crouch, newsletter editor The New Yorker Festival: Tickets are now on sale for our signature event, taking place October 7th through 9th in New York City. See the lineup » | 
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