In City Journal, Naomi Schaefer Riley makes the case for use of big data by welfare agencies to better flag potential children at risk. She cites numerous agency failures (often due to paralysis over racial politics) that could have been avoided while still preventing Minority Report-like outcomes.

Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.


