Gastonia, NC Correspondent — The mission is right and the vehicle looks fragile, and those are separate sentences. Right, because the government's own auditors have been reporting improper payments around a hundred and sixty billion a year and something near two point eight trillion cumulatively since they started counting. That's the accountability office telling Congress … Continue reading With its most visible figure departed and the aid agency formally closed this week, is the government efficiency effort institutionalizing or dissipating — and what should count as a saving?
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How should the United States manage the simultaneous pressures of high immigration levels, housing shortages, and strained local public services?
Clermont, FL Correspondent — Treating these as three separate problems guarantees continued strain, and the last four years demonstrated it. Management requires three linked pieces: predictable inflows, more housing supply where the jobs are, and either relief for localities or the tools to manage. I'd note what changed this year. Encounters fell sharply after the … Continue reading How should the United States manage the simultaneous pressures of high immigration levels, housing shortages, and strained local public services?
Is the current scale of U.S. border encounters sustainable under existing asylum and immigration law, or does it require legislative change?
Wheeling, WV Correspondent — The encounters and the backlog have exceeded the capacity of the law and the infrastructure for several years, and December is running at a record. Catch and release, multi-year waits, and asylum standards written for a different era have produced a de facto policy that neither secures a border nor processes … Continue reading Is the current scale of U.S. border encounters sustainable under existing asylum and immigration law, or does it require legislative change?
Character, age, and fitness for office have been raised against both candidates. Should these considerations carry more, less, or the same weight as policy differences in this election?
Prescott Valley, AZ Correspondent — Character and fitness matter because the office concentrates power and demands judgment under pressure that nobody can rehearse. Both candidates have vulnerabilities and I'd resist the framing that one set is serious and the other is noise. Trump's are extensively documented and frequently self-inflicted. Biden is seventy-seven and the questions … Continue reading Character, age, and fitness for office have been raised against both candidates. Should these considerations carry more, less, or the same weight as policy differences in this election?
Will the opioid epidemic ultimately force a fundamental rethinking of both pharmaceutical regulation and criminal justice approaches to addiction?
Wheeling, West Virginia Correspondent — We lived this in real time. Entire communities were hollowed out while the rest of the country was still deciding whether it was a story. The companies that pushed the pills and the distributors that shipped absurd quantities into towns of four hundred people should have faced harder consequences years … Continue reading Will the opioid epidemic ultimately force a fundamental rethinking of both pharmaceutical regulation and criminal justice approaches to addiction?
