Teen Crisis: How Facebook Targeted Tweens

Part 1, The Problem: An epidemic of depression, anxiety, and suicide among teenagers. Internal documents showing a company that knew and kept going. And…

Apr 16 • Matt Haggman

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Solving For: The Open Thread — Six Series In

The halfway mark of year one. And just getting started.

Apr 5 • Matt Haggman

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March 2026

Local News, Part 3: The Bet That Wasn't Made, But Could Still Be

Local journalism has seen four waves of rebuilding. Each made progress. None solved the problem. The solution may require a bet no one has yet been…

Mar 27 • Matt Haggman

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Local News, Part 2: The Internet Was the First Disruption. AI Is the Next.

The internet devastated local news. AI may be the bigger disruption. Understanding the collapse may be the industry's best preparation.

Mar 5 • Matt Haggman

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February 2026

Local News, Part 1: The Civic Unraveling

Since 2005, America has lost nearly 40 percent of its local newspapers. What it's really losing is harder to quantify — and far more consequential.

Feb 20 • Matt Haggman

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The Open Thread — AI Risks, Rare Earths, and Local News

Dario Amodei's five AI threats, the government's unprecedented equity stakes, and a preview of our series on local journalism's decline.

Feb 3 • Matt Haggman

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January 2026

War & Peace, Pt 3: Rebuilding the Global Order

Part 3 of 3: Solutions — As the world rearms, Mark Carney declared the 80-year-old rules-based order dead. Three worldviews now compete to shape what…

Jan 27 • Matt Haggman

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War & Peace, Pt 2: From 1989's Hope to Rearmament

Part 2 of 3: The Forces — How the optimism unleashed by the end of the Cold War unraveled — and why the world is arming again.

Jan 16 • Matt Haggman

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War & Peace, Pt 1: The World Rearms

Part 1 of 3: The Problem — After 80 years without global war, nations are rearming at a record pace, just as the guardrails that prevented catastrophe…

Jan 9 • Matt Haggman

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Solving For - A note as the year begins

As the new year begins — and Solving For enters its first full year — I wanted to take a moment to thank you, and share what we’re aiming to do in 2026.

Jan 1 • Matt Haggman

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December 2025

College Sports: The Fork in the Road

Part 3 of 3: Solutions - The old system is gone. What comes next?

Dec 23, 2025 • Matt Haggman

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College Sports: How the NCAA was Born of Death and Money — Death was the Easy Part

Part 2 of 3: The Forces — How the Money Problem Finally Won.

Dec 15, 2025 • Matt Haggman

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