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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.

GuideCivicsMarcus ValeSep 23, 20265 min

Three Minutes at the Microphone and How to Use Them

Public comment isn't a suggestion box. It's the last unlocked door in local government, and most people walk past it.

100 Things6 min

100 Things Every Kid Should Do Before Twelve

Media Literacy6 min

Talk About the News at Dinner Without Blowing Up the Table

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.

Guide100 ThingsWes DunbarSep 23, 20267 min

100 Things Every Outdoorsman Should Know How to Do

From a one-match fire to backing a boat trailer on the first try, the skills that separate a guy who's outside from a guy who belongs there.

Media Literacy5 min

Teach Your Kid to Check It Before They Believe It

Civics6 min

Reading the Declaration of Independence Line by Line

Guide100 ThingsTobias ReedSep 23, 20267 min

100 Things Every Man Should Know About Style and Grooming

Fit, shoes, shaving, cologne and the small stuff nobody teaches you, in one hundred lines you can act on this week.

GuideMedia LiteracyDean ShawSep 23, 20265 min

How to Tell When the Chatbot Is Making It Up

A confident answer isn't a checked one. Six moves that catch an invented citation before it ends up in your email, your brief or your kid's homework.

Civics6 min

Why We Have a Bill of Rights and What Each One Says

100 Things6 min

100 Things Every Cook Should Master in the Kitchen

GuideMedia LiteracyMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

When an Anonymous Source Is Worth Believing, and When It Isn't

A working method for reading stories built on unnamed sources, from the sourcing line to the 72-hour rule.

BRO TakeCivicsMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

How the Electoral College Actually Works and Why It Should Stay

The Constitution never uses the word "college," 270 is the only number that matters, and the best argument for keeping it isn't about small states.

100 Things7 min

100 Things Every Man Should Know About His Health

Media Literacy6 min

Find the bill, the ruling or the study before you argue about it

GuideCivicsMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

What the Second Amendment Actually Says and How Courts Read It

Twenty-seven words, two centuries of argument, and six Supreme Court cases you should be able to name before you argue about any of it.

100 Things7 min read

100 Things Every Father of a Daughter Should Know

The ponytail is the first test. Ninety-nine more follow, from the .22 rifle to the wedding toast you'll try not to cry through.

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