“It’s time that the cost of nonpayment of student loans be shared” by “colleges and universities themselves,” argue Arthur Herman and Alex J. Pollock at The Hill. Schools now “get and spend billions in borrowed money and put all the loan risk on somebody else,” which “incentivizes them to push” costs “ever higher — by an average of 169 percent since 1980.” We need a “model that realigns incentives and rewards,” and “the first principle should be that the more affluent the college is, the higher its participation in the losses should be.” Joe Biden has shifted $132 billion “of student debt from borrowers to taxpayers.” “It’s high time to give the rest of us a Christmas present of a new model for government student loans.”

Per new Census data, “New York’s population decreased by 101,984 residents — the largest loss of any state — during the 12-month period that ended last July 1,” observes the Empire Center’s E.J. McMahon. In all, “216,778 more people moved out of the Empire State than moved in from other states during the previous 12 months.” As a share of population, the “decline was the largest among the eight states with any population loss during the period.” Partly offsetting this loss was “a net gain of 73,867 international migrants.” “By comparison, as of October, Mayor Eric Adams estimated that 126,700 ‘asylum seekers’ had moved into the city since spring 2022.” Yet: “Since 2020, the Census Bureau estimates, New York has lost 884,000 residents to other states.”

None of the Democrats “embroiled” in recent scandals — Claudine Gay, Michelle Wu, Hunter Biden — “has the slightest embarrassment about what they’ve done,” roars the Boston Herald’s Howie Carr. They’re “blinded by privilege” and believe nothing will happen to them. And “they’re right, at least so far.” Harvard Magazine called Gay “A Scholar’s Scholar”; surely it meant “A Plagiarist’s Plagiarist.” Heck, “the swells” made her Harvard’s president “knowing she was unqualified”; how can they fire her now? They won’t, because . . . “diversity.” And “that Senate aide who videotaped himself being buggered in a Congressional room” now says he’s “being oppressed because of ‘the man I love.’ ” “Oscar Wilde used to write about the love that dared not speak its name. Now it won’t shut up.”

“Why did the University of Pennsylvania hold Liz Magill to a higher standard than Harvard is holding Claudine Gay?” asks The Wall Street Journal’s Jason L. Riley. Because “Ms. Gay, the school’s first black president, advances the diversity imperatives of her institution in ways that Ms. Magill, who is white, doesn’t.” “Gay’s defenders pretend that her qualifications for the job are indisputable and that her being hired had nothing to do with race. That’s baloney and they know it,” as “Gay wasn’t hired for her academic chops.” Her apparent plagiarism “has become an additional embarrassment.” This flags “a broader practical problem with racial-preference policies. Once you lower standards for hiring administrators or admitting students, you are forced to lower standards for evaluating their conduct and performance.”

You don’t see many electric vehicles in Wisconsin, notes Andrew Weiss at The Daily Signal, because “when the temperature drops below 40 degrees, which occurs over 200 days per year in [his town] Eau Claire, electric vehicles experience a reduction in range and efficiency, with losses of up to 40% when the heating system is in use.” Plus, “repairs typically take longer and are more expensive than repairing internal-combustion engine vehicles” and “purchase costs are often 50% higher.” No wonder some 4,000 auto dealers wrote President Biden last month, “disturbed at the surging supply of unsold electric vehicles on their lots.” Look: “Even with subsidies to car manufacturers and tax credits for buyers, only 7% of new-vehicle sales are electric, well below Biden’s 2030 goal of 60%.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board