{"id":333712,"date":"2026-08-31T10:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333712\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T10:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:48:24","slug":"new-york-courts-could-be-moving-in-a-radical-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333712\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Courts Could Be Moving in a Radical Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nToday, we\u2019re looking at\u00a0Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s new judicial panel, how AI can reduce health-care costs, George Washington\u2019s escape from New York, and a new film about a Cold War-era summit meeting.<\/p>\n

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\nNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s announcement last month of 18 new appointments to a \u201crevitalized\u201d judicial panel initially received attention because he included no Jews among the picks. But the names were notable for another reason, according to Stu Smith and Daniel Edward Rosen.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cSeveral panel members have extensive histories of advancing progressive criminal-justice reforms, prison abolition, alternatives to policing, and various forms of decriminalization,\u201d they write.<\/p>\n

\nThese new members have the potential to leave a big mark on public safety in Gotham. The judicial panel, formally known as the Mayor\u2019s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary, has a say in who becomes a judge in the city\u2019s criminal and family courts, as well as interim appointments to civil courts. As Smith and Rosen note, Mamdani\u2019s selections suggest a pivot back to his progressive roots on criminal-justice issues.<\/p>\n

\nRead here<\/a> for profiles of several of the mayor\u2019s appointees.<\/p>\n

\n\u201c[S]aying that AI will cure cancer is more a clich\u00e9 than it is inspiring,\u201d noted Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei posted on X recently, conceding that AI hasn\u2019t yet delivered on many of its big promises.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s right, notes Mark P. Mills. While AI tools have undoubtedly been a boon to scientists, real-world clinical trials to capitalize on that work still take time. But Mills is bullish on AI\u2019s future impact on many areas of health care.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo see where, one only needs to follow the money,\u201d he writes. AI holds out promise for reducing bureaucratic costs, improving diagnostics, and coordinating care across a universe of organizations and professionals, as well as the \u201cunavoidable administrative work of oversight, compliance, tracking, and insurance.\u201d All of these will soon add up to \u201cmeaningful advances in health-care productivity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nSuch advances may not be as dramatic as \u201cthe cure,\u201d but they will make our lives better.<\/p>\n

Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nOn July 4, 1776, George Washington was based in New York, preparing to defend it against the British. The Continental Congress had just issued the Declaration of Independence, and it wouldn\u2019t be long before the British sent an expeditionary force into New York Harbor. On August 27, 1776, the Americans suffered 300 casualties in the Battle of Long Island (in what is now Brooklyn), and 1,000 men were captured.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWashington had made many mistakes in the New York campaign, but he redeemed himself with his next move: he decided to try to evacuate his army to Manhattan,\u201d Barry Strauss writes. \u201cPulling a defeated army together is one of a general\u2019s hardest tasks. Washington joined a select group of commanders in history who refused to take part in a retreat until every combatant was evacuated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nRead more<\/a> about how Washington saved the American cause with his late-August New York escape.<\/p>\n

\nIn the film The Brink of War, director Michael Russell Gunn tells the story of the 1986 summit meeting between President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union. At the time, the arms control meeting was considered a failure, but it would prove an historic turning point in the Cold War. Gunn used declassified transcripts and conversations with former Secretary of State George Shultz to create \u201ca densely scripted, tautly paced political drama,\u201d Robert Steven Mack writes.\n<\/p>\n

Read Mack\u2019s review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cGood thoughts. I, too, am open to the idea of SCOTUS term limits or even a larger court. But any reforms made to the current system should only be made because the proponents of the reforms believe a fairer and more just system or process, not different outcomes, will be the result. \u2018My team isn\u2019t winning, so we should change the rules\u2019 is not reform; it\u2019s childish.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.<\/p>\n

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