The mental health crisis in America is not a mystery and it is not an accident. 23.4% of U.S. adults — 61.5 million people — experienced mental illness in 2024. Nearly half of Gen Z always or often feel anxious.…
America’s vocational training shortage is a self-inflicted crisis four decades in the making. Starting in 1983, federal education policy systematically defunded shop class, auto repair, welding, and other trade programs in favor of a “college for all” mandate — leaving…
🔴 BREAKING — February 28, 2026, ~2:25 AM PT: The United States and Israel have launched a joint military strike on Iran, codenamed Operation Shield of Judah. Explosions have been reported across Tehran and at least four other Iranian cities.…
Trump bans Anthropic from all federal government use and the Pentagon declares the AI company a “supply chain risk” — the same designation reserved for China’s Huawei — after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused to allow the US military to…
Why are men not going to college? In 2025, men represent only 42% of bachelor’s degrees awarded in the United States — the lowest male share on record — while women account for 60% of undergraduate enrollment, a gap that…
Why are men not going to college? In 2025, only 42% of college students are male — the lowest share ever recorded — meaning there are now 2.4 million more women than men enrolled in American higher education. This collapse…
The biggest overhaul of federal student loan policy in a generation takes effect on July 1, 2026 — and millions of borrowers, future students, and their families have no idea it’s coming. The student loan changes 2026 eliminates the Graduate…
Wall Street buying homes accelerated after the 2008 financial crisis, when private equity giants like Blackstone purchased tens of thousands of foreclosed single-family houses at distressed prices, converted them to rentals, and built a new asset class that permanently removed…
The ACA subsidy cliff 2026 hit on January 1st when the enhanced premium tax credits — which had kept health insurance affordable for 22 million Americans since 2021 — expired without a congressional extension. Average marketplace premiums jumped 26% in…
For-profit college predatory lending is the practice of recruiting low-income, first-generation, and minority students into expensive, federally-funded degree programs that deliver worthless credentials, produce astronomical dropout rates, and generate billions in profit while leaving students buried in debt they legally…