Author: Daniel Keem
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The Rise of Women in Skateboarding: From Patti McGee to Sky Brown
From Patti McGee’s 1965 cover to Sky Brown’s Olympic medal, women in skateboarding pushed past industry gatekeeping to remake the sport on their terms.
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Contract law assumes equal bargaining power that almost never exists
Contract law pretends both parties freely negotiate, but most agreements today are take-it-or-leave-it. The fiction protects whoever already has leverage.
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Paying Cash for a Car Isn’t Always Smart
Paying cash feels disciplined, but with low promotional rates and inflation eroding fixed payments, financing a car can be the more rational choice.
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Pets Are Often Forgotten in Emergency Plans
Most household emergency plans cover food, water, and documents but skip the family pet. A few small additions prevent serious problems in a real crisis.
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Humanities departments earned their decline
Humanities enrollment is collapsing and the field blames everything but itself. Here’s the case that the decline reflects choices the discipline made.
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Rent control fails
Rent control polls well and feels fair, but decades of data show it shrinks supply and hurts the renters it’s meant to help. The evidence is hard to ignore.
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Mental health parity laws were never enforced
Federal law requires insurers to cover mental health like physical health. The enforcement reality has been so weak it’s effectively a dead letter.
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You Can’t Prepare for Everything
Comprehensive preparedness sounds prudent but quietly produces worse outcomes. Here’s why selective resilience beats trying to ready yourself for everything.