Tessa Lundberg

Are movie theaters dead, or is the big screen irreplaceable?

Assigned seating and advance booking killed the best thing about movies: spontaneity. It used to be that a rainy Saturday meant wandering into whatever was starting in twenty minutes. Now every showing is a logistics operation planned days ahead, with the good seats gone by Thursday. The theater turned a casual impulse into a scheduled commitment, at exactly the historical moment when every other entertainment option became instant. People didn't stop loving movies. They stopped loving homework.

Should people with felony convictions automatically regain voting rights after serving their sentences?

The Constitution leaves voter qualifications mostly to the states, and that is not a loophole, it is the design. People in different states genuinely disagree about what completing a sentence requires, and a one-size rule from Washington would erase that debate instead of settling it. When Florida voters passed Amendment 4 and when Virginia's governors issued restoration orders, those were state decisions reflecting state values, which is how a federal system is supposed to work. [Pew Research](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/11/15/how-americans-view-some-of-the-voting-policies-approved-at-the-ballot-box/) has found broad but not universal support for restoration, with real disagreement about violent offenses and timing. Automatic nationwide restoration trades that democratic argument for a mandate, and on questions this contested, the argument is the point.