With enough columns shown in a report, Jira has trouble cramming them into the narrow screen width, especially if the filter editor is open on the left side.

Outlook 2003 added a nice way to deal with this exact same problem. They permitted multi-line (visually) rows in their tables. So I'll have "From", the message type, and when it was received on line 1, then on line two I get the whole subject.

Jira would really benefit from this same behavior. Instead of oddly wrapped or truncated summaries that have to fit in with about ten other fields that are important, they could get an entire line to themselves.

I created a couple mockups in Excel. They're not very pretty but I hope they get the idea across!