The Military Wants AI Faster. Who Owns the Safety Check?
GAO documented a February staffing gap and an unchartered responsible-AI council. The public needs a current accounting of who carries the Pentagon's safeguards through.
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Democracy & Government
Elections. Representation. Public institutions. Government accountability. These editorials examine how democracies function, who is represented, and where important voices are missing.
29 editorials
The Complaint Had a 100-Day Clock. The Housing Problem Did Not Wait.
HUD now claims a 46% fair-housing backlog reduction. The starting counts, cases still waiting and relief delivered belong in the public receipt.
Read Editorial →The College Took the Money. The Outcome Data Is Late.
Students must choose, sign and borrow on time. Required college program data is still arriving late.
Read Editorial →The Disability Hiring Duty Stayed. The Audits Stopped.
Federal contractors still owe disabled workers equal opportunity. GAO says the Labor Department suspended the audits used to test that promise.
Read Editorial →Before You Cut Care, Did You Stop Paying More for the Same Care?
Before Washington saves money by reducing coverage or enrollment, did it exhaust the billions available from paying the same rate for comparable outpatient care?
Read Editorial →The People in the Middle Keep Paying
Middle-income workers in America and Germany can face taxes, social contributions and disappearing benefits while trying to move upward. A social system needs a floor, but it also needs a staircase that works.
Read Editorial →They Served the Country. The Food Benefit Still Missed Them.
An average of 1.4 million veterans faced food insecurity each year from 2015 through 2020. A new federal review found that the benefit exists, but outdated outreach and a slowed federal hand-off may keep eligible veterans from using it.
Read Editorial →Your Paycheck Pays Now. Why Can Extreme Wealth Wait?
Workers pay taxes as wages arrive. Extreme wealth can often grow for years before capital-gains tax is triggered. The question is whether work and wealth are being asked to carry a fair share.
Read Editorial →Two Agencies Fund the Support. The Worker Still Gets Left Waiting.
A new federal review describes gaps between disability employment programs. The person trying to work should not have to become the coordinator of the government meant to support them.
Read Editorial →The Warning Arrived. The Language Did Not.
A warning is not truly public if millions of people cannot understand it. Federal weather alerts remain uneven across languages, while a promising translation project still lacks measurable goals, a complete resource plan and nationwide reach.
Read Editorial →The Cloud Has an Address. Somebody Else Is Paying the Bill.
AI feels weightless on a screen. The data centers behind it need electricity, water, land and infrastructure. The public deserves to know who gets the benefit and who carries the risk.
Read Editorial →The Disaster Plan Included Everyone. The Training for Disability Access Disappeared.
FEMA removed disability-inclusion training for its state and local partners, did not consistently coordinate specialists before disasters, and had never asked people with disabilities to evaluate the overall assistance application process.
Read Editorial →The Absence Rate Was Over 100%. The Oversight Had Already Stopped.
At least one in four students has been chronically absent. But the federal data used to track the problem can produce rates above 100 percent, and the Education Department stopped its most comprehensive oversight of the programs carrying nearly $27 billion.
Read Editorial →The Water Project Was Built. The Missing Money Was for Keeping It Alive.
Washington likes to cut the ribbon when a water system is built. A new federal audit shows what happens when the rules do not cover every home and the money to keep the system working is treated as somebody else’s problem.
Read Editorial →The Efficiency Team Got Access. The Public Still Cannot See the Security Receipt.
GAO could not verify the full access or safeguards because six agencies supplied incomplete records.
Read Editorial →America Is Giving Away Its Future
Canada did not steal America’s scientists. America made leaving look reasonable.
Read Editorial →The Campaign Was the Ad. We’re Stuck With the Bill.
American candidates can promise tax cuts, new programs and sweeping savings without giving voters one independent receipt for the whole plan. Australia already shows that another way is possible.
Read Editorial →Trump and Black America: What Helped, What Hurt, and What Will Last?
A plain-language ledger of what changed, who gained, who lost, what is temporary, what is law, and whether the Black-white gap actually narrowed.
Read Editorial →Germany Has to Decide What Kind of Country It Wants to Be
After the AfD's landslide in Saxony-Anhalt and Friedrich Merz's sharp response, the question is bigger than one election: what do Germans actually want, and where is the country going?
Read Editorial →The Navy Spent $3.4 Billion Keeping Submarines and Crews Waiting
Supporting the troops should mean more than approving another military budget. It should mean making sure the money produces readiness instead of years at the pier.
Read Editorial →The Government Isn't the Public's Boss
When government violates a protected right and the courts provide no effective remedy, the public shouldn't have to accept silence as the final answer.
Read Editorial →The Seat She Couldn't Keep
A promising campaign ended before voters could decide, raising questions about ballot access, representation, and whether election rules are applied consistently.
Read Editorial →If a Program Was Built to Reach Black Americans, Say So.
If the government creates a program because Black people were left out, denied help or harmed, it should say so clearly.
Read Editorial →If You Agree… Why Are You Still Sitting Down?
Reading is not action. Agreement is not courage. What happens after the truth reaches us?
Read Editorial →The Constitution’s Original Wounds
America amended slavery out of its constitutional text, but did it repair the distribution of power the original design created?
Read Editorial →The Price of the Black Vote
Black voters are repeatedly told what is at stake. They are rarely allowed to ask what their support purchased.
Read Editorial →They Served the United States. The Nearest VA Care May Be an Ocean Away.
Citizens of three Pacific nations can enlist in the U.S. military, but VA care may require a flight to another country.
Read Editorial →What Can We Do to Make Justice Happen?
Justice doesn’t happen because people agree that something is wrong. It happens when evidence, organization and pressure are sustained.
Read Editorial →When Children Disappear From Foster Care, Who Notices?
Federal law requires rapid reporting. Auditors found thousands of missing-child episodes were delayed, incomplete or never reported.
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