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?
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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?
How should policymakers respond to the persistent underperformance of many urban public school systems after years of increased spending?
Prescott Valley, AZ Correspondent — Spending rose while outcomes stayed flat or declined on key measures. Money inside the same structures hasn't closed the gaps. The recovery money from the pandemic period has now expired, and the evaluations of what it bought are mostly discouraging. Districts spent a great deal on staffing they can't sustain … Continue reading How should policymakers respond to the persistent underperformance of many urban public school systems after years of increased spending?
Will the continued advance of artificial intelligence force a fundamental rethinking of education, workforce development, and the design of the social safety net?
Dayton, OH Correspondent — AI is changing the return to certain cognitive skills and the speed at which tasks can be automated. Systems built around fixed credentials and slow curriculum cycles will lag. The safety net was designed for cyclical unemployment and industrial transition. It will face more frequent skill obsolescence in white-collar work. Fundamental … Continue reading Will the continued advance of artificial intelligence force a fundamental rethinking of education, workforce development, and the design of the social safety net?
How should the United States balance stricter border enforcement with the practical need for legal pathways that match labor-market demand?
Clermont, FL Correspondent — Strict enforcement without workable channels produces repeated waves. Channels without enforcement produce the same inflows under different paperwork. The enforcement half is now demonstrated rather than theoretical. Crossings are at levels not seen in decades and interior removals ran to several hundred thousand this year. So the question has narrowed usefully. … Continue reading How should the United States balance stricter border enforcement with the practical need for legal pathways that match labor-market demand?
After a full year, did the administration demonstrate that significant policy change is possible within the existing administrative structure, or that institutional inertia remains dominant?
Dayton, Ohio Correspondent — A year in, the answer has more evidence behind it than it did in March. Direction changed fast where the law already left room — enforcement choices, permitting emphasis, regulatory pauses. That's changing the process sheet and it matters. The machinery is a different story. What the year actually demonstrated is … Continue reading After a full year, did the administration demonstrate that significant policy change is possible within the existing administrative structure, or that institutional inertia remains dominant?
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?
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?
Should federal research and student-aid dollars be withheld from specific universities this year on viewpoint and discipline grounds, or is firm-by-firm litigation the better tool?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — This stopped being hypothetical in the spring. Money has already been withheld at scale from named institutions and the litigation is already running alongside it. So the real question is whether the version being executed is the one any of us would have designed, and I'd say partly. Withholding on a … Continue reading Should federal research and student-aid dollars be withheld from specific universities this year on viewpoint and discipline grounds, or is firm-by-firm litigation the better tool?
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 enacted TikTok divestiture law a legitimate national-security measure, or a precedent for political control of any disfavored platform?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — A pipe owned by an adversary's legal system isn't a magazine with a catchy song. The predicate is what makes it legitimate: an application whose algorithm and data can be directed under a statute we don't control, in a country that already uses platforms as instruments. The precedent risk is … Continue reading Is the enacted TikTok divestiture law a legitimate national-security measure, or a precedent for political control of any disfavored platform?
