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America woke up in 2026 to many things: oil prices doing whatever they feel like, flu season making its annual return tour, playoff debates already spiraling out of control, and

Control the Narrative, Control the Masses Control of the narrative involving the capture of Maduro in Venezuela is mind-boggling at one level, and perhaps sadly humorous at another level. Lessons

The Quiet Civics Lesson in Aisle Five Living civics doesn’t usually announce itself with a microphone or a megaphone. More often, it shows up quietly—between the cereal boxes and the

2026: Same Planet, New Price Tags Like every year before it, 2026 enters convinced it can enhance the world simply by clocking in. History’s familiar cycle of innovation and transformation

The NCAA’s New House Party With college football finally shuffling off stage like an aging rock star, college basketball has decided to crank up the speakers and throw the kind

If you were looking for a sign that 2026 was going to start off a little… slippery, allow me to introduce Phoenix. A yellow Labrador. A good boy. A very

From Draft Night to Detour It was a headline that I had to read twice: An NBA draft pick deciding to walk away and play college ball instead. Being an

Taylor Swift and Bathroom Etiquette. What? Taylor Swift and bathroom etiquette. What? Stay with me here…okay, a bit of stream of consciousness involved. Holiday Thoughts and People Watching The Holiday

There are few places Americans feel safer than a chain restaurant bathroom. You trust it instinctively.You don’t inspect it.You certainly don’t expect it to fight back. And yet, according to

If hindsight is 20/20, then 2025 was a year where irony is produced by algorithms and politicians think diplomacy is a TikTok trend. To toast our survival is the annual