Everyone agrees the meeting could’ve been an email. So why do we still schedule three a day?
Corporate culture has turned “collaboration” into a euphemism for wasting everyone’s time — and nobody in the room has the nerve to say it out loud.
Politics
Mitch McConnell Has Been Gone for Six Weeks. Congress Still Won’t Say What Everyone’s Thinking.
A sitting senator has been absent for six weeks with no real explanation. He’s not the exception. He’s the median.
Ben Shapiro’s “Goyslop” Reply Undercut His Own Argument About Antisemitism
His own reply to Tucker Carlson tested the rule he’s spent months defending. It broke.
Term limits sound good until you realize who actually writes the bills.
Turnover doesn’t fix a system where the staff never leaves the building.
Culture
Are CEOs Out of Touch? Three Recent Headlines Say Yes
A surveillance CEO calls privacy activists terrorists. A burger CEO can’t say “burger.”
Cancel culture didn’t disappear. It just got bored and moved to a new platform.
Tracking where public shame actually lives in 2026.
Book bans get the headlines. Quiet library budget cuts do the real damage.
The fight over what gets read starts long before anyone protests.
Tech
Every app wants to be a social network now, and every app is worse for it.
Engagement metrics rewarded the wrong kind of growth.
“AI-powered” is the new “all natural.” It means whatever the label needs it to mean.
A plain-language guide to the claims worth ignoring.
Right to repair shouldn’t be a debate. It should be the default.
Why fixing your own phone became a legal gray area in the first place.
Health
Your Body Never Asked for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Three meals a day feel like a biological law. They’re not, and here’s the research on what actually happens when you fast.
Peer review is slower than the news cycle, and that gap is where misinformation lives.
Why “a new study shows” deserves more scrutiny than it gets.
Sleep tracking told a generation to be anxious about their anxiety about sleep.
When self-quantification stops helping and starts spiraling.
Media
Oliver Tree Talked About His Own Death Before It Happened. We Don’t Know What To Do With That.
In the weeks since his death, fans have been revisiting things he said before any of it happened.
Podcasts became the new cable news, laugh track included.
The format changed. The talking-heads-yelling-past-each-other part didn’t.
Award shows keep apologizing for being “out of touch,” then book the same five people.
Diversifying the audience isn’t the same as diversifying who picks the winners.