Phoenix, Arizona Correspondent I spend a good deal of my working life in a hospital system, which means I have developed an allergy to the sentence, “The technology works.” That sentence may be accurate and still tell you very little about whether the technology makes life better. A machine can read an image, a model … Continue reading With companies advancing gene-editing and AI-driven approaches toward de-extinction efforts (such as work on the dodo), what scientific, ecological, and ethical questions need to be addressed before any reintroduction of extinct species becomes realistic?
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With increasing competition over Arctic access, critical minerals, and supply-chain security, how are the United States, China, and European partners positioning themselves, and what does this mean for long-term economic and strategic competition?
Long Island, New York Correspondent I have spent enough time reading deeds, zoning decisions, court orders, and correspondence from people who were quite certain they owned something to know that a map is not a deed. A government may have a convincing map showing where its strategic interests lie. A mining executive may circle a … Continue reading With increasing competition over Arctic access, critical minerals, and supply-chain security, how are the United States, China, and European partners positioning themselves, and what does this mean for long-term economic and strategic competition?
As AI tools move from experimental use into clinical practice—helping with imaging interpretation, genetic diagnosis, and drug discovery—what evidence is emerging about their real impact on patient outcomes versus the risks of over-reliance or diagnostic errors?
Savannah, Georgia Correspondent In port logistics, we talk about throughput because ships have to move, cargo has to be located, and somebody eventually has to get a container onto a truck. A port that leaves every vessel at anchor while managers admire a new scheduling system has not improved its operations. Yet the opposite mistake … Continue reading As AI tools move from experimental use into clinical practice—helping with imaging interpretation, genetic diagnosis, and drug discovery—what evidence is emerging about their real impact on patient outcomes versus the risks of over-reliance or diagnostic errors?
Has the rapid expansion of NIL deals and revenue sharing fundamentally changed (or corrupted) the character of major college sports, and are current enforcement efforts by the College Sports Commission and conferences proving effective at containing cap circumvention and transfer chaos?
Knoxville, Tennessee Correspondent The university on the hill above this city has a hundred-thousand-seat stadium, a football budget that would run a mid-sized county for a decade, and a general manager, which is a title that did not exist in college athletics five years ago and now sits in every power-conference building between the head … Continue reading Has the rapid expansion of NIL deals and revenue sharing fundamentally changed (or corrupted) the character of major college sports, and are current enforcement efforts by the College Sports Commission and conferences proving effective at containing cap circumvention and transfer chaos?
Are prediction markets (such as those operated by Kalshi and Polymarket) meaningfully different from traditional sports gambling in structure, risk, and social impact, or are the legal distinctions mainly regulatory workarounds, and how should policymakers treat them?
Orange County, California Correspondent I analyze business models, and the business model of a prediction market is the first thing to understand, because it answers most of the question before the lawyers arrive. A sportsbook takes the other side of your bet. It sets a line, builds a margin into it, and profits when you … Continue reading Are prediction markets (such as those operated by Kalshi and Polymarket) meaningfully different from traditional sports gambling in structure, risk, and social impact, or are the legal distinctions mainly regulatory workarounds, and how should policymakers treat them?
How have cryptocurrencies and digital-asset markets responded to the year’s geopolitical shocks, inflation pressures, and evolving U.S. and international regulation, and do they still function as a distinct asset class or primarily as high-volatility speculative vehicles?
Cedar Rapids, Iowa Correspondent An accountant tests an asset class by asking what it does when everything else is doing something, and this year supplied the test. Oil went to a hundred and twenty dollars when the Iranians closed the strait, inflation went above four percent, the Federal Reserve raised rates for the first time … Continue reading How have cryptocurrencies and digital-asset markets responded to the year’s geopolitical shocks, inflation pressures, and evolving U.S. and international regulation, and do they still function as a distinct asset class or primarily as high-volatility speculative vehicles?
Nine months into Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty in New York City, what has the experience shown about the practical limits and possibilities of progressive urban governance on housing, policing, affordability, and relations with the federal government?
Long Island, New York Correspondent I live in Suffolk County, which means I live in the place where the New York City experiment is observed from forty miles away by people who work in the city, pay its taxes through the commuter rail and the payroll, and go home at night to a county that … Continue reading Nine months into Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty in New York City, what has the experience shown about the practical limits and possibilities of progressive urban governance on housing, policing, affordability, and relations with the federal government?
With continued heavy investment in AI infrastructure amid rising energy costs and debt concerns, is the sector heading toward a more sustainable phase of growth, or are the capital expenditures and power demands creating new systemic risks for technology companies and the broader economy?
Knoxville, Tennessee Correspondent The Tennessee Valley Authority was built in the 1930s to bring power to a region that had none, and ninety years later the largest single category of new load it has been asked to serve is a set of buildings that nobody lives in, built by companies headquartered in other time zones, … Continue reading With continued heavy investment in AI infrastructure amid rising energy costs and debt concerns, is the sector heading toward a more sustainable phase of growth, or are the capital expenditures and power demands creating new systemic risks for technology companies and the broader economy?
Should “waste and fraud” be retired as a slogan and replaced with three published numbers — improper payments, unexecuted IT, and programs Congress will not kill — or would that honesty end the coalition that wanted the slogan?
Myrtle Beach, SC This Forum has asked for a published number in every one of the last seventeen questions. One was published. Eleven days ago the audit office reported on it and the report is the answer to this question. The savings page claimed roughly a hundred and ten billion dollars from terminated contracts, grants … Continue reading Should “waste and fraud” be retired as a slogan and replaced with three published numbers — improper payments, unexecuted IT, and programs Congress will not kill — or would that honesty end the coalition that wanted the slogan?
As space companies like SpaceX expand satellite constellations and others pursue more frequent heavy-lift launches, what practical benefits and drawbacks are materializing for communications, Earth observation, and the growing volume of objects in low Earth orbit?
Jacksonville, Florida I spend enough time around a port to have become suspicious of the word seamless. A terminal operator will tell you a shipment is visible from end to end, a carrier will promise real-time tracking, and somebody in a conference room will call the whole arrangement an integrated platform. Meanwhile, a truck sits … Continue reading As space companies like SpaceX expand satellite constellations and others pursue more frequent heavy-lift launches, what practical benefits and drawbacks are materializing for communications, Earth observation, and the growing volume of objects in low Earth orbit?
