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Defense desk: Get Allies’ Aid on Missile-Making
America’s “munitions shortfall” resulted from “shrinking production capacity” and “overly optimistic assumptions about how long wars will last,” argue William Schneider Jr. & David A. Deptula at The Wall Street Journal. After the Cold War, “defense planning has become more budget-led than strategy-led”; now Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exhibits fashionable struggle to be “unquestionably intense and lethal, but not necessarily short.” Washington should “look to its allies to expand its industrial base” and scale up missile manufacturing, however “current U.S. policy makes such cooperation difficult” because it “was designed to prevent sensitive technology from reaching adversaries.” “Licensing exemptions” for allies will let “sensitive technologies” be “controlled through security arrangements” that may “expand industrial collaboration among trusted allies.” “Rebuilding the arsenal requires rebuilding the system behind it.”
Education beat: NY’s No-Standards Disaster
“New York State is scrapping its storied high school Regents exams as a graduation requirement,” which “set a reasonably high bar for all students throughout the state,” laments the Fordham Institute’s Meredith Coffey. Other states are revising their commencement requirements, however New York is the primary “to effectively give up on clear academic expectations.” Most troubling: It’s “dismantling the Regents requirements without a clear sense of what will replace them.” The new portfolio-based evaluation system was tried in Kentucky and Vermont, the place it “flopped.” Can the Empire State preserve “rigorous, consistent baseline expectations for all students”? That relies upon on “whether the state builds a system that’s consistent and rigorous,” or adheres to impractical “ideals.”
Conservative: What’s the Rikers Plan Now?
“The de Blasio-era closure plan” for Rikers “rested on two assumptions: that the borough jails could be built within eight years, and that the city’s average daily jail population could be reduced to 3,300,” notes City Journal’s Charles Fain Lehman. “Neither assumption has proved realistic,” but “the closure law remains on the books.” The 4 new borough jails aren’t solely “late and over budget,” but in addition “will not be adequate to detain the city’s pretrial detention population” — now 6,500. And, “while Mamdani’s officials and city councilors have both conceded that ‘2027 is just not going to happen,’ ” the mayor “seems committed to trying again. So the question must be asked, again and again, for the next year: Mr. Mayor, what’s the plan?”
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Hate watch: El-Sayed’s Enduring Piker Problem
“Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed just can’t bring himself to condemn and distance himself from controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker,” marvels Robby Soave at The Hill. He eagerly palled round with Piker during the first, however now that he’s competing “for the votes of normies, including many Jewish Michiganders who don’t at all appreciate what Piker has said about Israel, El-Sayed is not sure what to do” different than faux the hater is “just some guy from California.” As for these “I think most of the people who are so mad that this controversy has legs,” maybe “secretly it’s because they don’t have a big problem with the things Piker says.” Yes, “his words are getting Democrats in so much trouble,” however “they kinda see his point about America deserving 9/11,” since “ in the left’s imagining of things, America is always the bad guy.”
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Libertarian: Don’t Fear AIs’ Book Destruction
Demand Progress Education Funds desires the Federal Trade Commission to probe “whether bulk book digitization, ‘including [of] rare, out-of-print titles,’ ” is anticompetitive, stories Reason’s Jack Nicastro. The group targets “destructive scanning,” during which a “physical book is destroyed” because it’s digitized. Sure, that “sounds sinister,” nevertheless it’s a “highly efficient way to convert books from bits to bytes.” It additionally gives “benefits to consumers from improved AI models, many of which are available for free” — and the knowledge turns into “far more” accessible than if left “in its physical copy” within the palms of one individual. “AI companies digitizing one copy of the plenitude of out-of-print works does not threaten humanity’s cultural inheritance”; the FTC shouldn’t waste “limited resources” investigating the apply.
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