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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.

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Politics

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Local elections decide more of your life than the ones you actually pay attention to.

Turnout data says the opposite of where people put their outrage.

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Bipartisan just means both sides found something to trade away.

A closer look at what “compromise” costs the people not in the room.

Culture

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Nobody actually likes reboots. They like being fourteen again.

Nostalgia is doing all the marketing work originality used to.

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Cancel culture didn’t disappear. It just got bored and moved to a new platform.

Tracking where public shame actually lives in 2026.

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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

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Every app wants to be a social network now, and every app is worse for it.

Engagement metrics rewarded the wrong kind of growth.

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“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.

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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

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Wellness culture sold you “listen to your body” and a $40 supplement in the same sentence.

Where the science actually stops and the marketing starts.

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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.

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Sleep tracking told a generation to be anxious about their anxiety about sleep.

When self-quantification stops helping and starts spiraling.

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