The poverty debate that took over social media missed the actual problem. Adam Butler and Ben Hunt dig into precarity instead - why the gap between official metrics and lived reality matters, and what it means when people sense capitalism has failed them without being able to name what comes next.

The official inflation rate says 3 percent. Half of young America says they can’t afford the families they want. Adam Butler does the arithmetic, exposing how unreachable housing cascades into a silent foreclosure of marriage, fertility, and the future itself.

I was a French teenager on a family trip along the West Coast -- wide-eyed and curious, tasting a life that felt bigger than anything I could imagine back home. There was a spaciousness in America I couldn't name yet, a kind of freedom I had never experienced.

Superheroes and villains start from the same place - alone, unsupported, hurting. Tyrone Ross Jr. and Neils Ribeiro-Yemofio meet for the first time to discuss origin stories, the power of what you tell people, and why hope is both a tool and a weapon.