Sydney, Australia Correspondent — Recalibrate, and I'd say that as somebody whose government asked the question that started this argument. Australia called for an independent inquiry into the origins in April 2020 and was answered with trade retaliation that is still in place. That episode is the whole case in miniature. An institution that cannot … Continue reading Should the United States maintain its current level of commitment to global public-health institutions, or recalibrate after the pandemic experience?
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Is the increasing use of environmental, social, and governance criteria by large institutional investors improving corporate behavior or introducing new political biases into capital allocation?
Wheeling, West Virginia Correspondent — Some of these metrics track genuine long-term risk that any serious investor should price. Others are reputational screens that move capital according to institutional preference. When a handful of asset managers apply those screens across trillions in assets, they move corporate behavior in ways ordinary shareholders can't check, and the … Continue reading Is the increasing use of environmental, social, and governance criteria by large institutional investors improving corporate behavior or introducing new political biases into capital allocation?
How should policymakers respond to the growing evidence of learning loss among students after prolonged school disruptions?
Clermont, Florida Correspondent — The losses are measurable now and unevenly distributed, which is the important half. The assessment data from this autumn shows the gap widened most for the students who were furthest behind to begin with, and widened most in mathematics. Fund what has evidence behind it. High-dosage tutoring — meaning several sessions … Continue reading How should policymakers respond to the growing evidence of learning loss among students after prolonged school disruptions?
Will the rapid expansion of remote and hybrid work ultimately reduce or increase regional economic inequality?
Clermont, Florida Correspondent — Central Florida is the receiving end and I can report what it actually looks like. We're getting households with coastal incomes and no coastal commute. That's money arriving, and it's good for the tax roll and for the restaurants. It is also pricing out the people who were already here. A … Continue reading Will the rapid expansion of remote and hybrid work ultimately reduce or increase regional economic inequality?
Is the current level of federal spending on pandemic relief and infrastructure likely to produce sustained inflation, or will it prove temporary?
Owatonna, Minnesota Correspondent — The question has largely been answered since it was drafted, which is worth saying plainly. The Chairman retired the word transitory at the end of November. The November print came in at six point eight percent, the highest in forty years. The Fed accelerated the taper in December and signaled three … Continue reading Is the current level of federal spending on pandemic relief and infrastructure likely to produce sustained inflation, or will it prove temporary?
Did the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan demonstrate that the United States still lacks a coherent long-term strategy for limited military interventions?
Wheeling, West Virginia Correspondent — The exit looked chaotic because the strategy had been incoherent for years. We went in with shifting objectives — counterterrorism, then nation-building, then a residual presence — without a durable definition of success. August compressed twenty years of contradictions into two weeks. The thirteen killed at the gate and the … Continue reading Did the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan demonstrate that the United States still lacks a coherent long-term strategy for limited military interventions?
Should the House January 6 select committee have been constituted as a genuine bipartisan investigative body with minority subpoena rights, or does its design make a predetermined narrative inevitable?
Myrtle Beach, SC A real investigation can surprise its authors. This one is being built so that surprise would be a malfunction. That is the problem I keep coming back to, and it starts earlier than most of the coverage admits. Before there was a select committee there was a bill for an independent commission … Continue reading Should the House January 6 select committee have been constituted as a genuine bipartisan investigative body with minority subpoena rights, or does its design make a predetermined narrative inevitable?
Is the summer 2021 labor shortage a temporary residual of enhanced unemployment and school disruption, or evidence that reservation wages have shifted in a lasting way?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — Help Wanted in a window and a federal supplement that still competes with a shift isn't a mystery of the human soul. It's a residual with a date on it. Reservation wages can move. People who spent a year staring at a kitchen table may want more money or a different … Continue reading Is the summer 2021 labor shortage a temporary residual of enhanced unemployment and school disruption, or evidence that reservation wages have shifted in a lasting way?
Should the United States condition COVID-era IP waivers and booster diplomacy on actual manufacturing capacity in partner countries, or treat waivers as a moral gesture regardless of fill-finish?
Prescott Valley, AZ Correspondent — A waiver that can't fill a vial is a press release, and press releases don't lower a curve in a country without fill-finish capacity, cold chain, or a regulator who can release a lot. Intellectual property isn't a vial. It's a recipe plus a factory plus a quality system, and … Continue reading Should the United States condition COVID-era IP waivers and booster diplomacy on actual manufacturing capacity in partner countries, or treat waivers as a moral gesture regardless of fill-finish?
Should social-media platforms’ post-2020 amplification and suppression decisions trigger common-carrier rules, or remain a matter of private discretion and advertiser pressure?
Prescott Valley, AZ Correspondent — Private discretion that can remove a sitting president and suppress a newspaper's reporting in the same season is not a coffee shop. A common-carrier rule that treats a ranking algorithm as a telephone line will be captured by whichever office writes it. So the honest menu is unattractive in both … Continue reading Should social-media platforms’ post-2020 amplification and suppression decisions trigger common-carrier rules, or remain a matter of private discretion and advertiser pressure?
