Unleashing Hidden Talents for Personal Fulfillment
Everyone possesses unique talents meant to be shared with the world. The stories of Walt Disney and Cesar Millan illustrate how embracing…
How Partisan Migration Is Redrawing America’s Political Map
Forget the old saying “all politics is local.” In today’s America, all politics is relocation. A growing number of Americans are choosing to pack up, load the U-Haul, and move somewhere...
Impact of Pollinator Decline on Food Security
Stand at the front door of any big supermarket and play a little game. Count the aisles of boxes and bags, then try to find the small strip of real food that depends on insects. If bees and their...
America Ain’t No Casino: But He Plays It Like One
He tweets at the Fed, brags at Mara Lago, and treats the U.S. economy like a slot machine. Sounds like a joke—but it's not. It's the daily reality we've been living in, where governance has become...
What Happens If the World Boycotts the United States?
When people start voting with their wallets, politicians take notice—eventually. But what happens when the wallet isn’t just closed, it’s pointed in another direction? With mounting global...
How Platform Monopolies and AI Extraction Are Killing Independent Publishers
For thirty years, we published on the assumption that if you built something worth reading, people would find it. That assumption is now dead. Not because readers disappeared—they didn't. Not...
Why Economists and Politicians Keep Getting Money Wrong
Why do outdated economic theories dominate policy while inequality and crises grow? Post-Keynesian economics and Modern Monetary Theory offer a better way forward.
Why Everything Feels Broken And Why Understanding Matters
Something feels off. Not catastrophically wrong—just persistently, exhaustingly not right. You work harder but get less. You follow the rules but fall further behind. You adapt and optimize and...
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When Every Single Choice Makes a Difference
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Why Optimism Extends Life and What Optimism Really Is
We have been sold a flimsy, pastel-colored version of optimism. Smile more. Think happy thoughts. Pretend the smoke alarm is just…
What's happening to independent publishers didn't start with Google. It didn't start with algorithms or AI or any particular piece of technology. It started in the 1980s when two deliberate policy changes rewired how American corporations operate. One killed the rules that kept monopolies from forming. The other changed how executives get paid. Together, they turned extraction into the most profitable corporate strategy in nearly every industry. Understanding this explains why airlines, banks, food companies, and tech platforms all consolidated the same way—and why forty years of both parties did nothing to stop it.
