Every few months a headline says American men have gone soft. Here's the contrarian case, and it's arithmetic: men didn't walk away from work. The work walked away from them, and the paycheck stopped rewarding it.
The headlines say men are opting out of college. The data says something colder: a pipeline that has been filtering boys out since the third grade. Here's what's actually happening - and what to do about it.
The most lethal online crime aimed at minors is 90% male and organized offshore. While we call boys the online threat, an extortion industry is hunting them.
By Stacey Tallitsch | July 14, 2026 The headline this spring was that teenage boys are dating chatbots and torching their futures doing it. Fortune ran the warning. The American Psychological Association ran the concern. The diagnosis writes itself: boys are emotionally stunted, so they've retreated into synthetic women
By Stacey Tallitsch | July 13, 2026 Every campaign cycle now comes with a wardrobe department. This summer it's the beard, the barn coat, the rifle in the B-roll, the strategist explaining that the party needs "authentic men." In Texas, Republicans attacked the Democratic Senate nominee
The Pentagon can't find enough eligible young men, celebrates a recruiting rebound built on lowered bars, then auto-registers every man for the draft. Read the whole ledger.
Every few weeks a columnist rediscovers that men are struggling and blames male silence. But when a man shows his pain, does anyone move toward him? The research says: less than you'd think.
By Stacey Tallitsch | July 8, 2026 There is a tidy story making the rounds again this summer, and it goes like this: men are in trouble because of what men believe. The rigid code — be strong, provide, don't flinch, don't ask for help — has been given
The deadbeat dad is the one man it's still safe to hate. But 78% of the nation's child support debt is owed by parents earning under $20,000 a year. He isn't refusing to pay. He can't - and the enforcement machine is built to keep it that way.
The dominant story says domestic violence is something men do and women survive. It's a half-truth engineered to erase the other half — and the other half, by the CDC's own count, is 20.7 million men.
Everyone calls it a male teacher shortage. It isn't. Men were evicted from boys' lives by design - here's the data, and what men should do now.
By Stacey Tallitsch | July 2, 2026 Here is the story you have been handed about why men die younger. You won't go to the doctor. You bottle it up. You take stupid risks, eat like a teenager, and treat a chest pain like a weather report. The male