Cory Manento
Why So Blue, Twitter Blue?
Things have been pretty eventful in TwitterLand since Elon Musk took over the company on October 28th: The mass firings, the new paid subscription service (or maybe not?), banning ...
Screwed! At the Midterms
On the ballot in next week’s midterm elections includes everything from reproductive rights, inflation, slavery, democracy itself, to sports betting. Most Americans would bet the ...
Petty Penny for Your Thoughts
You know that person who just loves to argue with you about politics, and you engage because you are definitely going to change their mind one day with all your impressive facts ...
TrendSegments: American Idol, GOAT Edition
Who is the greatest singer of all time? Since we unfortunately have not (yet) developed the technology to reanimate the corpses of late, legendary musical performers in order to ...
Does a Party Bus Need Three Wheels?
Channeling their inner college students, just 27% of Americans say we have an adequate number of parties. Political parties, that is. That’s why unsuccessful Democratic ...
TrendSegments: Metaverse—Fad or Fade?
Allow us a brief moment to get meta and discuss Trendlines from within Trendlines (trust us, we tried to make a “between the lines” pun work. It’s not possible). For those of you ...
If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say About People with Student Debt…
Last month, President Biden announced up to $10,000 in student loan forgiveness for individual borrowers. In a previous edition, we took stock of Americans’ student debt burden ...
TrendSegments: Time to Retire, Grandpa
The global business environment isn’t just uncertain for employers, it’s also uncertain for Labradoodles who can’t comprehend human commerce. That, and employees. Among those who ...
TrendSegments: Rob Me Once, Shame On Me
We like pretzels. So much so that, sometimes, we like to twist a representative sample of Americans’ minds into a pretzel (with a side of beer cheese) and see how it tastes. This ...