a month of questions

What a month… what a pace… and so we make observations, looking at January, asking what people asked… 

[Note: below are the first 65 Q’s we saw in the news. Note, too: not all news sources are good at asking questions.}

  1. After Trudeau, Can Canadians Get Their Free Speech Back?
  2. Are any of Trump’s Cabinet picks in trouble of not being confirmed?
  3. Are arsonists responsible for the Los Angeles wildfires?
  4. Are the officials on Kansas City’s side?
  5. Biden’s Legacy: Bad or Worse?
  6. Can Dems ‘Trump-Proof’ Government?
  7. Can Fairness Fix the U.S. Economy?
  8. Can Trump Make a Deal for Middle East Peace?
  9. Can Trump Make America Safe Again?
  10. Conspiracies Too Awful To Imagine?
  11. Could Trump Fix Social Security’s Biggest Problem in ’25?
  12. Decision To Move Inauguration — Weather or Security Related?
  13. Did Biden, Trump Abuse the Pardon Power?
  14. Did Mayor Bass Cut the LAFD Budget?
  15. Did NFL refs favor the Chiefs?
  16. Did Trump Just Win a ‘Tectonic’ Election?
  17. Do Senate Republicans Know What Time It Is?
  18. George Soros, Anti-Communist?
  19. Goodbye, DEI?
  20. Harris Was Set To Crush Women’s Vote. What Went Wrong?
  21. Has the Decline of Journalism Hit Rock Bottom?
  22. Has Trump’s Second Term Already Peaked?
  23. Have the Past 10 Years of Democratic Politics Been Disaster?
  24. How Governable Is Los Angeles?
  25. How Sensible Are Trump’s Deportation Plans?
  26. Is Intifada Coming to America?
  27. ‘People Want Change’: Will Democrats Flip Their Script?
  28. Rename Mount McKinley?
  29. Trump Shocks System. Will He Solve Problems Voters Care About?
  30. Unity or Tension?
  31. Wanna Know Why People Don’t Trust the Corporate Press?
  32. What are presidential pardons and who are the 1,600 people Trump has pardoned?
  33. What Does an America Without Democracy Look Like?
  34. What Does Trump Mean by ‘Unleashing American Energy’? 
  35. What happened to Michelle Obama?
  36. What Happened When DEI Came to the Military?
  37. What Happens When a Wildfire Reaches a City?
  38. What Happens When You Can’t Afford To Evacuate?
  39. What has Donald Trump promised to do on day one of his second term?
  40. What Is Birthright Citizenship, and Can Trump Take it Away?
  41. What Is a Tariff and Who Pays It?
  42. What Really Happened in Wuhan?
  43. What Will Happen to Hollywood Now?
  44. What’s ‘America First’: People or Profits?
  45. What’s Trump Done on Prescription Drug Prices So Far – and What Might Be Next?
  46. When Was Biden Telling the Truth?
  47. Where Have All the Young Democrats Gone?
  48. Where is 2025 Super Bowl?
  49. Which party cracks up first in 2025?
  50. Winter Weather Worse?
  51. Who Is More Noble: Tim Kaine or Pete Hegseth?
  52. Who’s Afraid of Melania Trump?
  53. Why Are Any Democrats Still Defending Biden?
  54. Why Can’t the Left Understand Restrictions at the Border?
  55. Why did Los Angeles area fire hydrants run dry?
  56. Why Did Newsom and Bass Make So Many Major Errors?
  57. Why Is Russiagate’s Origin Story Redacted?
  58. Why Is the Right Obsessed With Epic Poetry?
  59. Why Wasn’t Los Angeles Better Prepared?
  60. Will Biden’s Approval Rating Ever Rebound?
  61. Will Dems Ever Reckon With Their Biden Groupthink?
  62. Will DOGE Decide To Go Big or Small?
  63. Will Harris Ever Make a Comeback?
  64. Will Public Stomach Mass Deportations?
  65. Will the Courts Enforce the Constitution Against Trump?

We’ll keep asking questions, friends… and making observations, too.

Respectfully…

AR

[Sources include but are not limited to Aljazeera, All Sides, American Greatness, The American Prospect, The Atlantic, BBC, CBS, City Journal, The Federalist, Financial Times, FOX News, Free Press, The Guardian, The Hill, The Los Angeles Times, Marca, Motley Fool, MSNBC, The Nation, NBC News, New York Magazine, The New York Times, NewsNation, Newsweek, PBS, Racket News, Rasmussen Reports, RealClearPolitics, Salon, Semafor, Spiked, Substack, US News & World Report, USA Today, Vox, Wall Street Journal, WaPo, Washington Times, and YouTube.]