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Elections. Representation. Public institutions. Government accountability. These editorials examine how democracies function, who is represented, and where important voices are missing.
Germany's federal police commissioner received 421 submissions in one year, including 50 reporting concrete indications of discrimination or racial profiling. The office is real. So are the limits on who can use it.
Read the Editorial →A federal review found that veteran-specific SNAP outreach was outdated and VA-USDA coordination had slowed.
Read the Editorial →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 the Editorial →Workers are expected to negotiate one paycheck at a time while employers, investors and industries organize their power. Federal law already protects more collective action than many employees realize.
Read the Editorial →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 the Editorial →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 the Editorial →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 the Editorial →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 the Story →Canada did not steal America’s scientists. America made leaving look reasonable.
Read EditorialGAO could not verify the full access or safeguards because six agencies supplied incomplete records.
Read EditorialAmerican 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 EditorialAfter 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 in English Auf Deutsch lesenWhat does political support actually buy communities once elections are over? This editorial examines accountability beyond campaign promises.
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