mens-issues
The Enlistment Crisis Isn't Junk Food. It's Neglect.
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.
masculinity
mens-issues
The Male Empathy Gap Isn't a Grievance. It's Data.
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.
mens-issues
The Man Box Isn't a Prison. It's a Pressure Gauge.
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
mens-issues
The Missing Male Teacher Isn't a Shortage. It's an Eviction.
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.
mens-mental-health
The Overdose Gap Isn't a Drug Problem. It's a Purpose Gap.
By Stacey Tallitsch | July 1, 2026 The overdose numbers are finally falling, and the coverage has the tone of a victory lap. Deaths dropped more than a quarter in a single year — the largest decline on record — and the story writes itself: better policy, wider naloxone distribution, a fentanyl supply
mens-issues
Men Aren't Only the Threat. They're the Body Count.
By Stacey Tallitsch | June 30, 2026 Every June the conversation about men runs on a single track: men are the problem. The aggressors. The threat to be managed, the danger to be defused. There's a number that gets buried under all of it, and it isn't
mens-issues
Boys' ADHD Isn't a Disorder. It's a Design Mismatch.
Every June the men's mental-health campaigns tell us to catch it early. Spot the struggling boy. Get him assessed. Get him medicated before he becomes another grim statistic. It sounds like compassion, and in the right case it is.
mens-issues
Most Homeless Americans Are Men. That's Not an Accident.
By Stacey Tallitsch | June 26, 2026 Every winter the city counts its homeless, and every spring the report lands with the same headline: a record. What the headline never says is who the homeless actually are. Look at the federal numbers and a face comes into focus, and it is
male-loneliness
Male Loneliness Isn't a Defect. It's a Demolished System.
By Stacey Tallitsch | June 25, 2026 This week, CNN took its readers inside an exclusive California “man camp,” where, in the outlet’s own framing, one woman is trying to save men from themselves. It is a near-perfect snapshot of how the establishment narrates the male loneliness epidemic: men
mens-issues
Justice Isn't Sex-Blind. The Data Shows a Sentencing Gap.
Criminal-justice reform measures every disparity but one. Federal data and the most rigorous study we have show the courtroom is not sex-blind — men carry a heavier sentence for the same crime. Here is the asymmetric-risk math.
mens-issues
The Wage Gap Isn't the Only Gap. Meet the Death Gap.
Women earn 81 cents on the dollar - a real figure treated as a moral verdict. But the same labor market produces another gap nobody counts: in 2024 men were ~92% of U.S. workplace deaths. Put that line back on the ledger and the story changes.
mens-issues
Your Fertility Isn't a Verdict. It's a Signal You Can Read.
By Stacey Tallitsch | June 18, 2026 The headlines have reached a verdict, and the verdict is you. After a decade of "sperm counts are collapsing" coverage, the conversation has quietly mutated into something stranger: a 2026 argument in a peer-reviewed journal that solving the fertility crisis may