Margo Martin is an American spokesperson and political advisor who has served as Special Assistant to the President and Communications Advisor since 2025. Most people outside the MAGA world had never heard of her. And then, in 2023, a Fox News anchor told his viewers he was about to show them footage of Melania Trump...
The number that stops most retirement conversations cold is not $1 million, or $2 million, or whatever the latest survey says Americans think they need. It’s the actual number, the one sitting in the account when someone finally does the math. For most people, that number is sobering. The retirement savings gap between what people...
Moving in retirement is one of those decisions that sounds simple on paper and turns out to be anything but. You’re not just picking a zip code – you’re choosing your doctors, your neighbors, your daily commute to the coffee shop, your proximity to grandkids, and the property tax bill that quietly shapes everything else...
It started, as so many things do with this president, with a picture. Not a press photo, not a campaign headshot, but a digitally generated image posted to Truth Social on a Sunday afternoon: Donald Trump striding across what appears to be a desert military base flanked by stern-faced Secret Service agents, while beside him...
Picking a state to retire in sounds like a fun problem. You picture yourself with a coffee on the porch, flipping through real estate listings in places you’ve always half-dreamed about. Then reality starts loading. Property taxes, healthcare access, state income tax on your 401(k) withdrawals, hurricane insurance premiums, the distance from the grandkids –...
Tell someone where you’re from, and you’ll see it happen in real time. The slight shift in their expression. The knowing nod. The “oh, so you’re a…” that trails off into whatever assumption has been living rent-free in their head since they saw a meme about your home state. It’s one of the most universal...
There’s a particular kind of loneliness that doesn’t come from being alone. It comes from lying in bed next to someone who’s scrolling their phone, or eating dinner across from someone who hasn’t asked how your day was in six months, and slowly realizing you can’t quite remember the last time they actually seemed glad...
Buying a home is one of the most significant financial decisions a person makes. The mortgage, the inspection, the moving costs – most buyers plan meticulously for all of it. What catches nearly everyone off guard is what comes after. The appliances, systems, and structures that make a house livable don’t last forever, and when...
Somewhere between the financial advice your uncle gave you at a cookout and the retirement calculator you abandoned halfway through, a set of persistent beliefs took root. They feel like common sense. They get repeated at dinner tables, shared in Facebook groups, and occasionally used to justify not opening that brokerage account. The problem is...
In a survey, seventy percent of Americans agreed that “it is sometimes necessary to discipline a child with a good, hard spanking” [1]. But spanking children may have undesired results. Adults sometimes hit their children to punish bad behavior, and while it might appear to be effective in the short-term, there is evidence to suggest...
There are over 100 thousand people awaiting a kidney transplant in the United States, and someone is added to that list every fourteen minutes [1]. The average wait-time for a kidney is between three and five years, and thirteen people die every day waiting to receive a transplant. The organ shortage in the United States...
If you’ve ever had the misfortune of losing a tooth, you may have considered dental implants in the past. You may also have been surprised to learn how expensive they are, and that oftentimes materials such as mercury or silver are used. But what if we could actually regrow teeth back? Fortunately, there is some incredible new research...
