What? The EPA is giving special dispensation to polluters like they always do, and making sure we ingest it???? That people don't know about these con artists' scam yet is amazing.
Y'know, not at all effective at catching criminals. Good at spotting minor infractions for which you can extort people for though, so expect readers to become very common.
Many older ones use primitive techniques like unsalted mersenne twisters. As such, it's pretty trivial to crack them by sniffing for 10 or so emissions.
The public schools are working. That said, there's no danger of anything other than our current system being in power; the elections are a sideshow and public opinion has 0 influence on public policy. Expect more Imperial Mercantilism until the whole shoddy edifice collapses under it's own weight.