be up-front

OpenAI shared a generic statement that included the line, “Our policies require that users be up-front with their audience.”

Perhaps for the first time in history, it is tolerable—even respectable—to be up-front with others when we are having a hard time.

In all cases, when you get the chance to explain, be up-front about taking a career break.

“I know you didn’t ask for my advice, but I’m giving it to you anyway. For Jupiter’s sake. You need to be up-front with her, Rae-Bee.”

And it is a reminder why we need, as historians and analysts, to be up-front about the role of racism in shaping policy in our country.