The Best of The Hairy Times
Welcome to the Featured Articles section of The Hairy Times — a curated collection of our most impactful reporting, commentary, and storytelling. These are the pieces that define who we are: fact‑driven, opinion‑forward, and committed to helping readers understand the world with clarity, honesty, and depth.
Our featured work spans politics, culture, society, sports, travel, and personal growth. Each article is selected because it offers something more — sharper insight, stronger research, deeper perspective, or a story that deserves your attention. Whether you’re here to stay informed, explore new ideas, or follow the threads shaping our world, this page is your gateway to the content that matters most.
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Below, you’ll find our most essential articles — updated regularly as new stories rise to the surface. Dive in, explore, and stay engaged.
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The Emperor’s New Greatness: A Reckoning With What We’ve Become
This is a story about greatness — or what’s left of it. There’s a line in Hemingway where a character is asked how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” he answers. “Gradually, then suddenly.” That’s how democracies fail. Not with a… read more
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The Lamp We Must Each Become
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The mornings in the Andys Mountains arrive slowly. Darkness does not flee at the first hint of dawn—it lingers, testing the resolve of the light.… read more
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The Colorado Avalanche Didn’t Just Lose — They Folded Like a Cheap Tent in a Blizzard
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Listen up, hockey fans — and especially you, Jim, because I KNOW you’re reading this with your smug little “I told you so” face —… read more
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Harry’s Right About the Avs — And That Makes Me FURIOUS
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Listen, I hate agreeing with my brother more than I hate losing money on sports bets, and brother, I REALLY hate losing money on sports… read more
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn Stumbles Out of the Gate While Musk’s Starship Keeps Exploding Forward
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The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket has given the space race a new spectacle, and it's not the one Jeff Bezos wanted. Blue Origin's New… read more
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The Fun Side of the Island Is Waiting for Us
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Here's what I know to be true: We're tired. Bone-tired of the anger. Exhausted from the constant churn of outrage, the daily feed of cruelty,… read more
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The Man With the Golden Grift: Trump’s Gilded Obsession and the Villains Who Came Before
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There's something about gold that makes certain men lose their minds. Not the quiet appreciation of a wedding band or the historical weight of Fort… read more
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We Were Never Perfect — But We’ve Been Better Than This
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I've been hearing a lot of people say "Make America Great Again" — as if we need to reach backward through time to find our… read more
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The Rowdy Legacy: Why Kyle Busch Made Racing Better By Being Impossible to Ignore
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Look, I'm going to level with you — this isn't the piece I thought I'd be writing about Kyle Busch. When you've spent two decades… read more
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The Art of the Settlement: Trump’s IRS Battle and the $1.7 Billion Question Nobody’s Asking
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The Trump IRS settlement is one of those moments in politics when the machinery of government produces an outcome so perplexing that even seasoned observers… read more
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Runway Rebellion: Why Fashion Week’s Playing Dress-Up While the Streets Steal the Show
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Street style fashion trends are taking over from the catwalks. Darlings, let me tell you what’s happening on the nation’s catwalks right now, and more… read more
