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Politics: time to privatize the us postal service, the leak

POLITICS: Time to privatize the US Postal Service, the leak double standard and other commentary

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Mail call: Time To Privatize the USPS

The United States Postal Service β€œlost $9.5 billion shuffling paper around the country in fiscal year 2024” and is projecting another β€œ$6.9 billion loss in fiscal year 2025,” so The Free Press’ Charles Lane wonders,Β β€œwould privatization be so terrible?” Our β€œpeer nations, including Germany, Japan, Britain, Portugal and the Netherlands, have adopted postal privatization.” Today’s system just doesn’t work: Americans send β€œone another six billion text messages daily. Half the people surveyed in 2021 hadn’t received a personal letter in five years; 14 percent had never received one.” β€œThis is the age of drones, driverless vehicles, and artificial intelligence. If there’s any part of the federal apparatus that could use a dose of radical disruption, it’s the postal service.”

From the right: The Leak Double Standard

β€œBy all means, let’s talk about β€˜leaks’ in the wake of [last] week’s Signal fiasco,” quips The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley A. Strassel. Yes, β€œWashington should be concerned that Trump officials blunderingly added a journalist to a Yemen war-planning chat.” But β€œCompare that with the torrent of leaks that began in the runup to Mr. Trump’s first election.” They ranged from a β€œscandalous, fact-free β€˜dossier’ on fake Trump-Russia collusion” to Jared Kushner’s security clearance. The Senate found β€œ125 news articles containing leaked government information potentially damaging to national security in the first four months of Mr. Trump’s term.β€Β β€œHallelujah” that the left and the media β€œthink leaks are a problem,” but until they join with GOP electeds fighting against leaks it’s just one more double standard.Β 

Mideast desk: Why Trump Can’t Beat Houthis

β€œAttacking the Houthis, who have always given Tehran a big strategic bang for their buck, isn’t likely to cause significant long-term damage,” arguesΒ Reuel Marc Gerecht at UnHerd. Indeed, our sparse attacks β€œare likely refortifying an old Iranian doctrine: that the Islamic Republic’s enemies are willing to attack the clerical regime’s proxies, but not Iran directly.” β€œUntil Iranian supplies are cut off directly, check-mating the Houthis is impossible. β€œThe US and allied navies” are β€œunlikely to do better until the United States is willing to attack Iranian ports β€” the primary entrepΓ΄ts for the Houthis.” Yet β€œTrump still believes that a nuclear deal with Khamenei is possible. And until he abandons this idea, he’ll likely have no more success against the Houthis than his predecessor.”

Libertarian: Signal’s SurpriseΒ Endorsement

β€œSomething of value” we learned from journo Jeffrey Goldberg being included on a Team Trump group chat was that β€œgovernment officials use the popular encrypted messaging app” Signal β€œbecause the intelligence community considers it secure,” observes Reason’s J.D. Tuccille.Β We β€œshould consider that an endorsement of this technology.” The fact that β€œadministration officials including several from the intelligence community are willing to hold a conversation on the app” is β€œtestimony to the security of the software,” as was CIA Director John Ratcliffe saying that using Signal is standard at the CIA at a March Senate hearing. Still, Tuccille warns, β€œNothing is completely safe, of course. People developing security are in a constant race with those trying to compromise it.”



Liberal: Democrats’ Abundance Aversion

β€œWithout an abundance agenda this country is more likely to limp along than to soar,” laments the Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira. The country’s β€œshockingly expensive and slow infrastructure projects” hinder β€œdelivering what its people need.” One reason β€œis an overly burdensome environmental review process.” For Democrats, β€œcheap, reliable, plentiful energy” must β€œunderpin any abundance agenda” but the party β€œremains committed to rapid decarbonization.” Dems β€œseem to forget that working-class voters have little interest in an energy transition.” An uncomfortable truth: The abundance agenda β€œis incompatible with the modern Democratic Party.” The party puts β€œideology and special interests ahead of good governance” β€” and β€œworking-class voters” β€” which explains why β€œDemocrats will not necessarily be the natural party of abundance that voters actually want.”

β€” Compiled by The Post Editorial Board



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