- Was 2024 a bad year for progressive policy goals?
- Is Andrew Cuomo positioning himself for a run for New York City mayor?
- Can the U.S. budget deficit be solved only through cuts to the federal government’s workforce?
- Has the U.S. federal government been too involved or not enough in boosting the EV market?
- Are Donald Trump’s statements about expanding American territory a way to distract voters from domestic problems?
- What is a problem that the U.S. federal government must solve in 2025?
- Will Democrats regain the Virginia governorship this fall?
- Has Israel’s war in Gaza strengthened or weakened U.S. national security?
- How far with Trump’s deportation scheme go?
- Has the ERA become the 28th Amendment?
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- Are right-wing forces winning the American culture war?
- Is the U.S. reward for the arrest or conviction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro counterproductive?
- Has Senator John Fetterman become another Krysten Sinema?
- Will the Supreme Court rule against Tik Tok?
- What will be President Biden’s legacy?
- How will the Los Angeles fires affect national home insurance rates?
- What is the future of the First Amendment in an age of disinformation?
- Should Democrats make Governor Gavin Newsom the voice of “resistance” to a new Trump administration?
- Will more U.S. cities copy New York City’s congestion pricing model?
- What would be the implications of the U.S. retaking the Panama Canal with military force?
- What will be President-elect Trump’s first legislative priority when he takes office?
- If Canada were to join the United States as one state or a collection of states, how would it transform the U.S. economy?
- Was President Biden wise to block the U.S. Steel-Nippon Steel merger?
- Should Americans be optimistic about the U.S. economy going into 2025?
- Is the U.S. prepared for a large-scale bird flu pandemic?
- How will the terror attack in New Orleans affect the confirmation of the next FBI director?
- What should America’s living and future presidents learn from Jimmy Carter?
- Does the U.S. economy need more tax relief?
- Will Mike Johnson be the Speaker of the House until the 2026 midterms?
- Should the Trump administration continue the Biden administration’s “hostage diplomacy”?
Note that these will be the last questions for the next two weeks due to the winter holiday. Questions will resume on Monday, January 6.
1. Is a “hands off” approach to the situation in Syria the best course of action for the United States?
2. Will president-elect Trump’s foreign policy make Latin America a bigger priority?
3. If you were the writer of president-elect Trump’s inaugural address, what points would you emphasize?
4. Is the Black Lives Matter movement getting weaker?
5. Should President Biden give Dr. Anthony Fauci a pre-emptive pardon?
6. Would the defeat of Peter Hegseth’s nomination embolden opposition to other Trump appointees?
7. Should the Social Security Fairness Act be passed?
8. Are the drone sightings in New Jersey a national security threat?
9. Should Ron DeSantis appoint Lara Trump to the U.S. Senate?
10. Why is the U.S. fertility rate in decline?
- To what degree will the Trump administration follow Project 2025?
- Should there be reforms to the presidential pardon power?
- Would it be a political mistake for Trump to fire Christopher Wray?
- Is Bluesky a real threat to X?
- Will the incoming Congress be more productive than the last?
- How can Democrats best engineer a “blue wave” in 2026?
- Will Senate Republicans abolish the filibuster?
- What is the role that America should play in combating illegal narcotics in Latin America?
- Is Assad’s fall a victory for U.S. foreign policy?
- Will the assassination of Brian Thompson prompt significant national discussions about the state of the American healthcare industry?
- Will a Trump presidency significantly reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy?
- Is remote work slowly dying?
- Are Trump’s cabinet picks too extreme?
- Is it a mistake for the Biden administration to allow Ukraine to use U.S. missiles to strike Russian territory?
- Who should Ron DeSantis appoint to Marco Rubio’s Senate seat?
- Would a major downsizing of the federal government produce bad economic outcomes?
- Does the President have the constitutional authority to fire the Chairman of the Federal Reserve?
- Should Trump look to Javier Milei or economic inspiration?
- Is American liberalism in crisis?
- Should Democrats look to go farther left for a presidential candidate in 2028?
- Can Trump use tariffs to extract concessions from America’s trade partners?
- Should American labor unions welcome the selection of Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Labor Secretary?
- Will President Biden pardon his son before leaving office?
- Should the U.S. deploy special forces to deal with Mexican drug cartels?
- Does Donald Trump have a mandate?
- Will Donald Trump’s second term as president be less chaotic than the first?
- Who will be the next Supreme Court justice to retire?
- Were economic or cultural issues more influential in determining the outcome of the 2024 presidential election?
- Will Lee Zeldin be an effective administrator of the EPA?
- Should the Department of Education be abolished?
- Will the U.S. Senate confirm all of Trump’s cabinet appointees?
- What does Trump’s selection of Robert Kennedy, Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services mean for America’s pharmaceutical industry?
- Is Donald Trump making a mistake by not giving Nikki Haley a cabinet position?
- What role, if any, should AI play in the use of nuclear weapons?
- Should there be greater federal regulation of social media content?
- Why did Trump win?
- Does Vice President Harris still have a role to play in American politics?
- How will the result of the 2024 presidential election affect the future of the U.S. Supreme Court?
- Does Jerome Powell deserve another term as Federal Reserve Chairman?
- Were the 2024 elections an electoral realignment?
- What was the most shocking congressional result of the 2024 elections?
- To what degree is President Biden responsible for Vice President Harris’ defeat?
- How bad was the recent U.S. jobs report?
- Has the White House AI order delivered on its promises?
- Will the results of the Japanese parliamentary elections affect the U.S.-Japanese security alliance?
- What can the winner of the 2024 presidential election do to heal the country?
- Should newspapers continue to endorse political candidates?
- Does the United States have better long-term economic growth prospects compared to other Western nations?
- Are Israel’s strikes on its neighbors enhancing or undermining U.S. national security?
- Should the Supreme Court care about its approval rating?
- Does Elon Musk’s $1 million voter giveaway violate campaign finance law?
- Do American schools need more resources to teach students with exceptionalities?
- What is the biggest challenge facing rural America?
- Should progressives mobilize to call a new constitutional convention?
- Will the composition of the next Congress be favorable to entitlement reform?
- With a week to go, who wins the U.S. presidential election?
- Is the BRICS a threat to U.S. foreign policy goals?
- Will Republicans lose the Nebraska Senate race?
- If Vice President Kamala Harris wins the presidency but Republicans win the Senate what does that mean for her proposed policy agenda?
- Have Republicans become the party of the working class?
- How will the machinists strike at Boeing end?
- Will Democrats regain the House?
- Are there any constitutional restraints that the NCAA can impose on NIL?
- Should all state Medicaid programs cover weight loss drugs?
- Would a mass deportation of illegal immigrants do significant damage to the U.S. economy?
- Will voter turnout in the 2024 presidential election be higher, lower, or the same as 2020?
- Should the Republican Party temper its position on abortion?
- How should the Supreme Court rule in FDA v. Wages and White Lion Investments, L.L.C.?
- What is wrong with Boeing?
- Is it in the nation’s best interest for election results to take up to a week to be counted?
- Should Supreme Court justices have to submit to a tax audit each year?
- Did the U.S. err by sending a THAAD battery to Israel?
- Do electric vehicles have a Republican problem?
- Is California justified in blocking more SpaceX launches?
- Under what conditions should states be legally allowed to purge their voter rolls?
- Is former President Barack Obama more of a help or hindrance to the Harris campaign?
- Will the size of the national debt be a campaign issue in 2028?
- Why is there a discontent between voter sentiment about the economy and positive economic data?
- Will Helene and Milton create a national shift in the conversation about climate change?
- Does Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers for minors violate the Fourteenth Amendment?
- How could Trump’s recent statements on mass deportation impact Latino voter turnout in the 2024 presidential election?
- Should Governor Kathy Hochul remove Mayor Eric Adams?
- How will the result of the 2024 presidential election affect the U.S. tax code?
- Is the banning of new gas stations an effective energy policy?
- Are voter ID laws a violation of the 24th Amendment?
- Should the Taft-Hartley Act be repealed?
- Is U.S. foreign policy not using the Quad to its fullest extent?
- Should U.S. states ban universities from using legacy admissions?
- Why are U.S. auto prices so high?
- Has FEMA had an effective response to Hurricane Helene?
- Did J.D. Vance vault himself into 2028 presidential consideration based on his performance in the vice presidential debate?
- Should the U.S. change how the unemployment rate is calculated?
- Is the growing legalization of sports gambling a bad idea?
- Will Hurricane Helene impact the 2024 presidential election?
- Is Google losing its grip as an online search engine?
- Will the U.S. be caught up in Israel’s wars with its neighbors?
- Would a policy of not taxing overtime pay be fiscally wise?
- To what extent are crowd sizes indicative of who is leading the 2024 presidential election?
- What would a Kamala Harris victory in November mean for Gretchen Whitmer’s political future?
- Following a federal indictment, should New York City Mayor Eric Adams step down?
- Are nitrogen gas executions constitutional?
- Is the decline of American influence on the world stage a bad thing?
- Should Congress pass the Kids Online Safety Act?
- Is Virginia a swing state in this year’s presidential election?
- Would a Harris administration rekindle the Iranian nuclear deal?
- How can the U.S. prevent political violence from becoming normalized?
- What is the best way to get “dark money” out of politics?
- Should Congress renew enhanced ACA subsidies?
- How can the U.S. best stop the flow of fentanyl from China?
- Will the North Carolina gubernatorial election turn the state blue in the presidential race?
- Is there any significance in the Teamsters decision not to endorse Kamala Harris?
- Did the Federal Reserve cut interest rates too much?
- Does early voting begin too early?
- Should the U.S. stop pushing Saudi Arabia to normalize relations with Israel?
- Would the codification of Roe v. Wade into law survive a legal challenge?