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Add The New York Post on Google 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 shows modern war to be “unquestionably intense and lethal, but not necessarily short.” Washington must “look to its allies to expand its industrial base” and scale up missile production, but “current U.S. policy makes such cooperation difficult” as it “was designed to prevent sensitive technology from reaching adversaries.” “Licensing exemptions” for allies will let “sensitive technologies” be “controlled through security arrangements” that can “expand industrial collaboration among trusted allies.” “Rebuilding the arsenal requires rebuilding the system behind it.”
“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 graduation standards, but New York is the first “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 assessment system was tried in Kentucky and Vermont, where it “flopped.” Can the Empire State maintain “rigorous, consistent baseline expectations for all students”? That depends on “whether the state builds a system that’s consistent and rigorous,” or adheres to impractical “ideals.”
“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,” yet “the closure law remains on the books.” The four new borough jails are not only “late and over budget,” but also “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?”
“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 around with Piker during the primary, but 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” other than pretend the hater is “just some guy from California.” As for those “I think most of the people who are so mad that this controversy has legs,” perhaps “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,” but “they kinda see his point about America deserving 9/11,” since “ in the left’s imagining of things, America is always the bad guy.”
Demand Progress Education Funds wants the Federal Trade Commission to probe “whether bulk book digitization, ‘including [of] rare, out-of-print titles,’ ” is anticompetitive, reports Reason’s Jack Nicastro. The group targets “destructive scanning,” in which a “physical book is destroyed” as it’s digitized. Sure, that “sounds sinister,” but it’s a “highly efficient way to convert books from bits to bytes.” It also provides “benefits to consumers from improved AI models, many of which are available for free” — and the information becomes “far more” accessible than if left “in its physical copy” in the hands of one person. “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 practice.
