We’re facing the worst job market for college graduates in five years. Student loan debt has reached $1.77 trillion. Young people with degrees are competing with high school graduates for the same jobs and losing. The American Dream isn’t just dying, it’s being actively killed by the very institutions that promised to deliver it.

This isn’t about the economy. This isn’t about AI or globalization or any other convenient scapegoat. This is about a system that takes billions from families who can’t afford it, delivers a product that doesn’t work, hides the evidence, and then asks for donations.

Universities are running the biggest con in American history. And it’s time someone said it.

Washington, DC should be one of the easiest cities to date in. Young, educated, ambitious professionals everywhere. People who know what they want and aren’t afraid to go after it. A population that values intelligence and achievement.

Instead, it’s become one of the most frustrating dating markets in the country.

The problem isn’t the people. It’s the system we’ve all bought into.

Dating apps promised us efficiency. Endless options. The ability to “optimize” our love lives the same way we optimize our careers. For a city full of people who are used to working hard and seeing results, this pitch was irresistible.

When NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani sat down with President Trump in the Oval Office this week, the conversation centered on what matters most to New Yorkers: affordability. Lower food costs. Lower housing costs. A safer city.

It’s exactly what politicians should be talking about. New York City has become prohibitively expensive for the people who actually live here, and any meaningful conversation about making the city livable again deserves attention.

But there’s one massive demographic that continues to get ignored in these affordability discussions: singles.