<p><b>Context Required: Finding Clarity in an Age of Noise</b></p><p>The world is changing while you're arguing online.</p><p>While social media fills your feed with culture wars, celebrity drama, and viral outrage, the systems that actually shape your life—economics, geopolitics, technology, governance—are being restructured with minimal public attention. Private equity is buying your hospital. AI is eliminating white-collar jobs. Trade policy is reshaping supply chains. The global order is fragmenting. And almost none of it trends on Twitter.</p><p>This isn't accidental. The modern media ecosystem is optimized for engagement, not understanding. Algorithms reward outrage over analysis. Conflict drives clicks while complexity gets ignored. The result? A public that's endlessly informed but perpetually confused—drowning in content but starving for context.</p><p><b>Context Required</b> cuts through the noise to examine what's actually changing and why it matters.</p><p>Each week, we ste
