So why *did* U.S. wages stagnate for 20 years?

The Panic: Paychecks frozen in amber, while living costs claw ever higher; the American dream, now on layaway.
The Hope: Yet voices grow louder, cracks form in the old order—unions and grassroots power stir beneath the frost.
The Action:
5/17/2025 · Noahpinion
America has become a laughingstock

The Panic: The world's mightiest circus, juggling scandals and folly, risks dropping the globe.
The Hope: Yet laughter can birth humility—and humility, the seeds of change.
The Action:
5/15/2025 · Noahpinion
Fear Not

The Panic: When even the humble tennis net becomes a symbol of boundaries we dare not cross, what hope for the big, barbed fences of life?
The Hope: But every serve is an act of courage—proof that fear can be volleyed and returned.
The Action:
5/21/2025 · Fear on Medium
The Fear of Being Honest
The Panic: Truth hides in the shadow of consensus; honesty is the new heresy, and we swallow our tongues to stay unburned.
The Hope: Yet each unheard whisper seeds a garden—when one voice cracks the silence, others bloom in courage.
The Action:
5/21/2025 · Fear on Medium
With Reckless Abandon

The Panic: We clutch what we love as the world pirouettes toward chaos, holding roses and grenades with the same trembling hand.
The Hope: Yet even in reckless abandon, hearts find new rhythms—resilience blooms in the cracks of uncertainty.
The Action:
5/21/2025 · Fear on Medium
The President Will Destroy You Now

The Panic: Demagogues sharpen chaos into a weapon, each tweet a brick hurled at democracy’s windows.
The Hope: Institutions are battered, not broken—their defenders still stubborn, still standing.
The Action:
5/20/2025 · NYT > Opinion