Medical debt drives 66.5% of U.S. bankruptcies. 100 million Americans carry it. Young families are 10x more likely to face it than Medicare-covered seniors. Here's how the system works — and who it's designed to protect.
American workers are 90% more productive than they were in 1979 — and their paychecks show almost none of it. Here's exactly how the productivity-pay gap was built, who built it, and where all that money actually went.
Team USA made history at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics — both the men's and women's ice hockey teams defeated Canada 2-1 to win gold. The men's victory is the first U.S. hockey gold since the 1980 Miracle on Ice at Lake Placid.
Rent is so high in America because of a decades-long failure to build enough housing, supercharged by NIMBY zoning laws that block new construction, a generational transfer of wealth into real estate speculation, and corporate landlords optimizing for profit over…
Gun violence in America kills approximately 40,000 people every year — a number that has remained stubbornly persistent across decades, administrations, and legislative sessions. Understanding the full scope of gun violence in the U.S. requires looking past the headlines: the…
American manufacturing reshoring is happening at a scale not seen since World War II. After four decades of offshoring jobs, factories, and entire industries to China, Mexico, and Southeast Asia, the United States is pulling production back home — with…
The 401k vs pension shift is one of the most consequential — and least discussed — acts of corporate theft in American history. In 1980, most private-sector workers with retirement benefits had defined-benefit pensions: guaranteed income for life, funded by…
The 401(k) vs pension debate isn’t really a debate — it’s a postmortem. American workers who entered the workforce before the 1980s received defined benefit pensions: guaranteed lifetime income, employer-funded, zero market risk. Workers who came after — Millennials, Gen…
Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will eliminate healthcare coverage for 7.5 million Americans — the largest Medicaid rollback in the program’s 60-year history — and 3 in 10 young adults are now at direct risk of…
Social Security’s main retirement trust fund will run out of money by fiscal year 2032, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s February 2026 projections — triggering an automatic 23–28% cut to benefits for every American receiving them, with no exceptions…