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🕵️ School Is Back, but the Most Important Homework Isn’t in a Textbook
Media literacy is becoming one of the most practical back-to-school skills as AI meddles with political ads, viral “animal tricks,” and even kid-focused…
🧭 How a Handful of Local Newsrooms Found a Way to Stay Alive
Local news has been on a two-decade losing streak, but a few scrappy newsrooms just figured out how to stop the bleeding.
🧠 Curiosity is the New Critical Thinking
Turns out the antidote to doomscrolling isn’t more willpower, it’s a specific set of trainable habits that psychologists and journalists have been…
🕊️ Why the World's Faith Data Refuses to Cooperate with Predictions
Every generation seems to declare religion’s obituary, and every generation gets the timeline wrong.
🌉 The Surprising Case for Talking to People Who Disagree Politically
Doomscrolling has convinced a lot of us that discussing politics with someone of a different opinion is basically a contact sport now.

July 2026

June 2026

🌵 How to Navigate America's Local News Deserts
Local news is being quietly rewired, with some communities keeping robust coverage while others are left with “ghost” outlets or nothing at all.
🧩 Disconnected Young Men, Job Disruption, and the New Economy
We’re zooming in on a real-time convergence of technology, economics, and democracy, viewed through the lives of young men.
🧠 Teaching Young Minds to Question Screens and Machines
Parents, teachers, and policymakers are all looking at the same screens and devices, yet often reaching very different conclusions about what it means…
🚨 When Crime Data Improves, But Fear Does Not
We’re seeing one of the biggest gaps between headlines and reality about how Americans think about crime versus what the numbers actually show.

May 2026

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