America loves to call itself a nation of entrepreneurs. Politicians routinely praise the family business, the independent contractor, the neighborhood store and the person who risks everything to build a company from scratch.

But being “pro-business” is not necessarily the…

How We Got Here: From Economic Shock to an Extraction Economy

Enshittification did not suddenly appear because corporate executives collectively decided to make everything worse. It developed within a much larger economic transformation—one involving pandemic stimulus, inflation, supply shocks, war…

By Laveda Jones

Artificial Intelligence has become one of the most transformative technologies in human history. It has the potential to revolutionize medicine, education, science…

The dismissal of three commissioners from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) has intensified an already heated national debate over who should wield influence over America's…

The presidency of Donald Trump has generated intense debate over the limits of executive power, conflicts of interest, government accountability, and the role of personal business interests in…

A lot of people in the U.S. feel this way right now, and there are several overlapping reasons why companies can appear to be “avoiding” customers or making human interaction harder.

Here are the biggest drivers:

Automation and Cost Cutting

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The Return of the Hard Sell: Technology, Trust, and the Trump-Era Mood

In the late 2010s and into the 2020s, many Americans began to feel a subtle but persistent shift in the texture of everyday life online and off. It…

Over the past decade, software and web application development have undergone a dramatic transformation. What was once a discipline grounded in craftsmanship, stability, and long-term thinking has increasingly shifted toward speed, cost efficiency, and rapid feature delivery. The combined influence…

The Industry I Knew Is Gone

I’m 56 years old, and I’ve been writing software long enough to remember when discipline mattered more than hype. Back then, we argued about architecture, not optics. We wrote documentation because someone else actually…

Trumponomics - The Erosion of Capitalism

In the past few years, a new management philosophy has taken hold in parts of American business and politics: the idea that the fastest way to “fix” an organization is simply to cut it…

President Trump’s decision to insert himself into the bidding war over Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) — particularly his call for CNN to be sold as a condition of any merger — marks a new chapter in his long-running campaign against…

As inflation squeezes workers and small businesses, corporate giants have found a convenient shield: Donald Trump’s emerging oligarchic model of governance. In this new political ecosystem, billion-dollar firms deflect scrutiny, blame Washington for price hikes they engineered, and quietly rake…

How the Trump Era Fueled a Politicized Version of Christianity on the American Right

The Trump administration marked a turning point in the long-running relationship between conservative politics and American Christianity. While religion has played a prominent role in U.S…

On November 14, 2025, Donald Trump made a dramatic shift in his public messaging — directing the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate alleged ties between Jeffrey Epstein and prominent Democrats…

The Epstein Letters and the Trump Connection: Political and Legal Fallout

Here is a revised, full-length article focused specifically on the tranche of emails released on November 12, 2025 by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Oversight Committee)…