- Expensive urban parenting: “Cities across America are losing children fast. Across Chicago, between 2010 and 2024, according to census-bureau data, the total population aged under 18 declined by 22%. In Los Angeles the figure was 23% and in New York, 12%. And yet in the country’s richest, densest cities, there is one group noticeably defying the trend: wealthier white families. In Chicago the population of non-Hispanic white children grew by 6% from 2010 to 2024, faster than the white population grew overall. In Washington, DC, it rose by a truly remarkable 62%. Their parents are professionals who grew up in boring suburbs and do not want their kids to.”
- One out of 8 Americans is taking a GLP-1.
- Thirty percent of Americans consult horoscopes, tarot cards, and fortune tellers: “Absolute belief is beside the point for many, who use it as entertainment or escapism. Others tap in for a sense of structure around certain tasks, like buying real estate or planning vacations.”
- Physical AI is the next horizon.
- “The danger of living funerals is that they cement and perpetuate the performative aspect of the good life, the notion that to be a good person we must undertake publicly acceptable deeds, that we can be judged on appearances and signals.”