Look, we’ve all seen it—sports leagues bending the knee to every activist with a Twitter account, teams ditching century-old mascots because someone might be offended, stadiums scrubbing traditional names in favor of corporate sponsors. The transformation of American sports from unifying entertainment into another political battlefield? Yeah, that happened while we weren’t paying attention. But…
You can almost feel the anxiety settling over kitchen tables across America. For weeks, Washington D.C. has been consumed by its latest political circus—a government shutdown that feels miles away from the real world. Yet the consequences of this manufactured gridlock are starting to bite. Bills don’t stop coming, but for many federal workers, the…