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By Stacey Tallitsch | August 14, 2026 Every August the same ritual returns. A school somewhere quietly announces it is dropping men's gymnastics, or wrestling, or swimming, and the press release blames "budgets." This year the ritual has a new engine. The House v. NCAA settlement that
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Overdose deaths fell for a third straight year — real progress. But look at who's still in the coffins. Men are roughly 69% of the dead, dying at more than twice the female rate, and the decline barely touched the gap.
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On December 18, 2026, the government stops waiting for young men to register for the draft and starts enrolling them automatically — men only. The coverage calls it modernization. It's the quiet automation of the last sex-based conscription obligation in the country.
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By Stacey Tallitsch | August 11, 2026 Congress spent the summer fighting over how to fund the Violence Against Women Act. The Senate wants roughly $720 million, the House around $640 million, and advocates are warning that nearly $200 million in already-appropriated money is sitting undistributed. Every headline framed it
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Every serious conversation about gender and work names the pay gap and the glass ceiling. But one workplace gender gap dwarfs them all and almost no one marches for it: men do roughly 92 percent of the dying — not because they're reckless, but because they've been drafted into the jobs that kill.
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By Stacey Tallitsch | August 7, 2026 Every June the headlines run the same autopsy. A "fatherlessness epidemic." Millions of kids growing up without a dad. And the implied cause, stated or not, is always the same: men left. They couldn't commit, wouldn't grow up,
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By Stacey Tallitsch | August 6, 2026 Every few weeks a new headline arrives to explain why men are dying: they won't ask for help. The framing is always the same. Men are trapped by "toxic stoicism." They've been taught to "man up."
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Every September the same headline recycles: boys don't read. The tone always lands in the same place—the boy is the defect. I want to flip that. The reading gap isn't a boy problem. It's a method problem wearing a boy's face.
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By Stacey Tallitsch | August 4, 2026 It is back-to-school season, which means the annual wave of headlines about boys falling behind — behind in reading, behind in grades, behind in college applications. The diagnosis is always some version of the same thing: something is wrong with the boys. They
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The mainstream blames young men for the dating recession. The survey data says the opposite: they want relationships more, date more, and hit one wall-money.
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By Stacey Tallitsch | July 31, 2026 Every history of medicine repeats the same true fact: for most of the twentieth century, research was built around the male body, and women's health paid for it. That injustice was real. Women were excluded from clinical trials until federal law forced
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By Stacey Tallitsch | July 30, 2026 Open a podcast feed, a magazine, or a mental-health campaign this year and you’ll meet the same character: the lonely man who won’t ask for help. The diagnosis is everywhere, and it always points in one direction — inward. Men are isolated,