The Self-Employed Man

Be your own boss and still pay the bills: clients, pricing, taxes, tools and time for your family.

The BRO Code. What to do, what not to do, and a few laughs on the way.

Do's & Don'ts: Men Do's & Don'ts: Business Owners

How to Tell Which Outlets Actually Own Their Mistakes

Corrections pages are the cheapest honesty test in media, and most readers never open one. Five minutes of digging tells you who to trust.

GuideCivicsMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

How to Get Your Congressman to Actually Write Back

Most messages to Capitol Hill get tallied, not read. A few get worked. The difference is which door you knock on and what you put in your first sentence.

Recipes6 min

Meatloaf With a Brown Sugar Glaze That Doesn't Slide Off

Media Literacy5 min

How to tell news from opinion before you share it

GuideCivicsMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

Ten Federalist Papers Worth Reading and What Each Argues

You don't need all 85. Start with No. 51 tonight, and you'll understand more about Washington than most cable panels do.

GuideRecipesWes DunbarSep 23, 20265 min

Sunday Meatballs and Marinara for a Full Table

Three cans of tomatoes, two kinds of ground meat, and a pot that feeds ten with leftovers for Tuesday. Here's how to get it right the first time.

Media Literacy6 min

How to teach a teenager to spot a sales pitch

Civics5 min

Your State Legislature Runs More of Your Life Than Congress Does

Guide100 ThingsMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

100 Things Every Man Should Do Before He Turns Forty

Some of these take twenty minutes. One takes a decade. None of them require a bucket list, a sports car, or a midlife crisis.

GuideMedia LiteracyJosh HalloranSep 23, 20265 min

What Thirty Days Off the News Actually Teaches You

A news fast isn't a detox. Run it like a test, keep the receipts, and you'll learn more about your sources in a month than in a year of reading them.

Civics5 min

Three Minutes at the Microphone and How to Use Them

100 Things6 min

100 Things Every Kid Should Do Before Twelve

GuideMedia LiteracyCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Talk About the News at Dinner Without Blowing Up the Table

A working method for checking a claim in real time, arguing about ideas instead of people, and still passing the potatoes afterward.

GuideCivicsMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

How to Read the Part of Your Ballot Nobody Explains

Judges, bond questions and the county races with zero coverage decide more of your life than the name at the top. Forty minutes at the kitchen table fixes that.