US Opinion Roundup: Pentagon Failures, Sports Noise, ICE Deaths, Trump Speech Coverage

This digest from The Week UK presents four opinion pieces. Ro Khanna in Foreign Affairs criticizes Pentagon procurement as slow and over budget, risking US military readiness. Alan Cushing in The Atlantic notes baseball and other sports are increasingly targeting casual fans with sensory overload. Ingrid Rojas Contreras in Time reflects on ICE killings of fathers, drawing parallels to her own father. Tom Jones at Poynter discusses TV networks' dilemma in covering President Trump's election integrity speech, given his history of false or misleading statements.

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