The debt you didn't choose
Forty-one percent of American adults carry debt from a medical or dental bill — debt almost nobody signed up for. The official numbers miss most of it. And the main fix so far has been to hide the debt, not stop it.
Five times your income
A generation ago a house cost about three years of income. Now it's five — you'd need to earn $126,700 to buy the median home, and the typical household makes $80,610. The squeeze isn't just for buyers, and it isn't just for the poor anymore.
The grassroots that weren't there
In 2017 the FCC got more than 22 million comments on net neutrality. Nearly 18 million were fake — and that was before generative AI made faking the public effectively free. What breaks when "the people spoke" stops meaning anything.