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Young Men Aren't Gambling Addicts. They're Asset-Hunting.

By Stacey Tallitsch | May 27, 2026 Minnesota became the first state in the union to outlaw prediction markets last week. Governor Walz signed the bill on May 19. Within hours, the CFTC sued to block it. The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing the next day on "betting integrity.

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The Marriage Strike Isn't a Strike. It's a Risk Audit.

By Stacey Tallitsch | May 22, 2026 The phrase trended again last week. Deseret News ran an opinion column on May 15 asking who is to blame for the shortage of "marriageable men." The Institute for Family Studies released fresh polling showing 68% of young men still want to

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Mankeeping Isn't Her Burden. It's Your Architecture Problem.

By Stacey Tallitsch | May 20, 2026 Open HuffPost. Open Vice. Open the New York Times. The trending verdict on heterosexual relationships in 2026 has a name: mankeeping. The term was coined by Stanford postdoctoral fellow Angelica Ferrara and Dylan Vergara in a peer-reviewed paper extending Carolyn Rosenthal's

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Toxic Masculinity Isn't a Disorder. It's Targeted Disarmament.

By Stacey Tallitsch | May 13, 2026 Mainstream coverage of the “toxic masculinity” research program hit another inflection point this month. Oregon State’s Toxic Masculinity Scale — a 28-item, four-factor instrument designed to clinically measure how much of a man is too much of a man — has now been

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Men Don't Need More Therapy. They Need More Competence.

It's Mental Health Awareness Month, and the same script is running on every channel: men don't talk, men don't seek help, men die in silence, men have a "treatment gap." The prescription is uniform across outlets — get men into therapy. Break the

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Men Aren't Vanishing From Work. They're Repricing It.

By Stacey Tallitsch | May 11, 2026 The Washington Post ran the headline three days ago: "Young and old men are leaving the labor force, fueling a record decline." One in three American men was out of the workforce in April. The frame, predictably, was crisis — sick men, disabled

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Male Loneliness Isn't an Epidemic. It's a Demolition.

By Stacey Tallitsch | May 10, 2026 The U.S. Surgeon General calls it an epidemic. The New York Times calls it a public health crisis. Every glossy explainer in your feed agrees that men are lonely because of something inside them — brain chemistry, fragile masculinity, an unwillingness to "open