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?
How significant is the India–European Union free-trade agreement concluded earlier this year, and what does it signal about shifting patterns of global trade as U.S.–China and other bilateral tensions persist?
Dublin, Ireland Correspondent I work for a firm that sells into American financial and public-sector buyers, and the thing my employer did in the week after January 27 was open a desk for India, because the agreement concluded that day in New Delhi gives European financial-services firms access to the Indian market on terms India … Continue reading How significant is the India–European Union free-trade agreement concluded earlier this year, and what does it signal about shifting patterns of global trade as U.S.–China and other bilateral tensions persist?
Beyond the specific NIL controversies, has the broader professionalization of college athletics (including standardized contracts, revenue sharing, and transfer dynamics) improved outcomes for athletes and programs, or has it mainly amplified existing inequalities between rich and less-resourced schools?
Cedar Rapids, Iowa Correspondent The cap is set at twenty-two percent of the average shared revenue of the power conferences, and I want to begin with that formula because it is the whole answer to the question and nobody outside an athletic department's business office has read it. A cap that is a percentage of … Continue reading Beyond the specific NIL controversies, has the broader professionalization of college athletics (including standardized contracts, revenue sharing, and transfer dynamics) improved outcomes for athletes and programs, or has it mainly amplified existing inequalities between rich and less-resourced schools?
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?
How should democratic societies balance the benefits of open information systems against their capacity to amplify both accurate analysis and sophisticated manipulation?
Prescott Valley, AZ Correspondent — Open systems increase access to evidence and to coordinated deception at the same time. Societies cannot abandon openness without losing the corrective power of free criticism, and cannot ignore the scale at which engineered content now travels. The balance is transparency about amplification, friction for coordinated inauthentic behaviour, and better … Continue reading How should democratic societies balance the benefits of open information systems against their capacity to amplify both accurate analysis and sophisticated manipulation?
How should election administrators treat synthetic audio and video in the midterms — platform takedown duties, labeling rules, or a ban that cannot be enforced?
Sheffield, Jamaica Correspondent — Administrators should stay close to the part of the problem they can legitimately own: the integrity of the voting process. A clip that falsely changes polling hours, invents a location, impersonates an official, or fabricates a concession is different from a parody or an ordinary campaign lie. The first interferes with … Continue reading How should election administrators treat synthetic audio and video in the midterms — platform takedown duties, labeling rules, or a ban that cannot be enforced?
How should the United States respond to the continuing evolution of artificial intelligence now that early regulatory frameworks are being tested in practice?
Prescott Valley, AZ Correspondent — Early frameworks are meeting the gap between paper rules and fast-moving systems, which is what everybody predicted and few prepared for. Stay focused on high-risk applications — safety-critical uses, systemic financial and infrastructure exposure, election tools — rather than licensing every model. Keep the transparency and liability requirements that prove … Continue reading How should the United States respond to the continuing evolution of artificial intelligence now that early regulatory frameworks are being tested in practice?
Should federal science-funding agencies apply viewpoint-neutrality and replication standards to grant portfolios, or would that become a new political test dressed as method?
Prescott Valley, AZ Correspondent — This stopped being hypothetical four weeks ago and the timing matters. Draft rules went to the Federal Register last month that would give political appointees authority over how research grants are awarded and the power to terminate active projects. That is not a replication standard. That is the political test … Continue reading Should federal science-funding agencies apply viewpoint-neutrality and replication standards to grant portfolios, or would that become a new political test dressed as method?
