Most of us have noticed at one time or another, if we aren’t noticing it all the time, the way contemporary news coverage feels designed to compel us to check it constantly—even while the experience seems to make it harder to track what’s actually going on in the world as it unfolds over months or years, or longer.

At The Signal, we certainly notice this. And think about it a lot. Every once in a while, that leads us to make some adjustments in what we do—as I’m glad to say we’re doing this month.