Gastonia, NC Correspondent — Open-ended isn't a strategy. It's a feeling that resembles one on television. Kyiv holding is a condition of geography and will. It isn't a definition of done. Without a picture of done and a European factory attached, we're running a magazine as a moral subscription. Condition it, and not as a … Continue reading Should the United States condition further Ukraine aid on a defined end-state and on European ammunition production, or treat support as open-ended for as long as Kyiv holds?
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Do gasoline prices at midsummer levels require a temporary federal tax holiday and drawdown of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, or would those steps worsen the longer shortage?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — A holiday on a federal tax of eighteen cents against a five-dollar sticker is a rounding error with a ribbon. A reserve drawdown is a one-time sale from a tank built for a blockade, not for a midsummer poll. Neither drills a hole or finishes a pipe. Midsummer prices hurt … Continue reading Do gasoline prices at midsummer levels require a temporary federal tax holiday and drawdown of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, or would those steps worsen the longer shortage?
How should regulators respond to the spread of monkeypox without repeating the early-COVID pattern of mixed messages and uneven access to vaccine?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — Say who is actually at risk, say it on Monday, and say the same sentence on Friday. That's the whole rule. The current outbreak is concentrated in a defined sexual network — overwhelmingly men who have sex with men — and it's spreading through close, sustained skin contact rather than through … Continue reading How should regulators respond to the spread of monkeypox without repeating the early-COVID pattern of mixed messages and uneven access to vaccine?
Is Title 42 still a legitimate public-health tool at the border in mid-2022, or has it become an immigration policy the statute no longer supports?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — By July the public-health sentence is exhausted. The operational sentence isn't. The authority was written for communicable disease and in March 2020 it had a face — a novel virus, crowded holding rooms, no vaccine. This is a different country. Shots, boosters, full airports, and an administration that will not … Continue reading Is Title 42 still a legitimate public-health tool at the border in mid-2022, or has it become an immigration policy the statute no longer supports?
Should Finland and Sweden’s move toward NATO be treated as a durable strengthening of the alliance, or as a new set of defense obligations the United States is not ready to resource?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — Two serious countries joining a treaty isn't two more names on a mailing list. Finland has an artillery culture, conscription it never abandoned, and eight hundred miles of border with the problem. Sweden has industry and a navy that already knew the Baltic. That's strengthening if we mean mass, geography, and … Continue reading Should Finland and Sweden’s move toward NATO be treated as a durable strengthening of the alliance, or as a new set of defense obligations the United States is not ready to resource?
What should the federal response be to the infant-formula shortage, and does it expose dangerous concentration in a regulated food category?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — A baby doesn't eat a press conference, and that's the whole test. One plant that supplied a very large share of the WIC and retail market went down in February, the agency was slow and then loud, and the remaining handful of producers couldn't cover a category the rules had … Continue reading What should the federal response be to the infant-formula shortage, and does it expose dangerous concentration in a regulated food category?
Have the January 6 committee hearings changed the public’s understanding of executive responsibility after an election, or mainly hardened existing camps?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — I watched pieces of these the way I read a markup, looking for a sentence I could use. What I got was a miniseries. People who already believed the last president tried to break the transfer watched the clips and said so. People who already believed the institutions never accepted 2016 … Continue reading Have the January 6 committee hearings changed the public’s understanding of executive responsibility after an election, or mainly hardened existing camps?
Now that the National Archives has confirmed classified material among the returned boxes and referred the matter to the Justice Department, is that ordinary records enforcement, or the conversion of a Presidential Records Act dispute into a criminal predicate?
Gastonia, NC The Presidential Records Act was written as a retrieval statute, not as a tripwire. That distinction matters because institutions develop habits from the verbs they use. Archives collect. They inventory. They send letters. They argue over ownership, custody, classification, privilege, access, and whether the box on the truck belongs in one building or … Continue reading Now that the National Archives has confirmed classified material among the returned boxes and referred the matter to the Justice Department, is that ordinary records enforcement, or the conversion of a Presidential Records Act dispute into a criminal predicate?
Should Congress reassert clearer limits on the use of emergency and national-security authorities by the executive branch?
Wheeling, West Virginia Correspondent — These authorities expanded through repeated use and broad interpretation, and Congress has the constitutional position to redraw them. Tighter definitions, shorter time limits, faster review. Leaving them vague invites continued expansion and reduces the legislature to a commentator. I'd say the obvious thing about why it doesn't happen. A member … Continue reading Should Congress reassert clearer limits on the use of emergency and national-security authorities by the executive branch?
How can cities reverse the post-pandemic decline in urban commercial activity without simply increasing public subsidies?
Orange County, California Correspondent — Subsidies mask decline and rarely reverse it. The number to start from is that office attendance across major markets is running around forty percent of pre-pandemic, and it's been stuck there since autumn. Omicron has pushed the return dates out again. Make the district functional — safety, transit that runs, … Continue reading How can cities reverse the post-pandemic decline in urban commercial activity without simply increasing public subsidies?
