Fast Takes: Incredible shrinking Gaza famine, Trumps right on data centers and more

In July, a UNICEF-led team’s report not only found “no widespread acute malnutrition” in Gaza, notes The Free Press’ Olivia Reingold, it also showed Gaza “has one of the lowest rates of acute child malnutrition in the region.” Indeed, the strip’s current health challenge is “obesity and weight excess, which affect a combined 4 percent of children under the age of 5.” Only a year ago, the UN’s hunger-monitoring system warned “more than half a million Palestinians were ‘facing catastrophic conditions characterized by starvation, destitution, and death.’” Humanitarian groups just can’t seem to explain the reversal, but a “major organization is still fundraising” on the starvation claim, and news of the UN report “has been hard to find in the mainstream press.”  “It’s a tough time to be a data center,” observes Robby Soave at The Hill.  A “vital part” of the tech economy, they’ve “suffered a complete collapse” of public support, even though they’re “economic boons.” Heck, “they generate so much money” for Loudoun County, Va., “that the local government was able to cut everybody else’s property taxes.” President Trump “frequently touts their benefits,” and he’s right.People are “irritated about new construction,” are “falling for popular but incorrect talking points” about how centers gobble up resources.

Advocates must better explain their “huge” value for the country and community, as they’ll soon be “massively important” for America and its conflicts with “adversary,” “authoritarian regimes.”“The greatest threat today to American manufacturing and global exports comes from China,” warns UnHerd’s Michael Lind.“Why, then, is the Trump administration appeasing China on trade, while picking fights with countries like Canada that are friends and allies?” President Trump is “cracking down” on Canada over non-strategic industries like “dairy, al...