A Colorado baker spent twelve years and two trips to the Supreme Court defending his right to decline a single custom cake. A Colorado web designer sued preemptively rather than wait to be sued herself, and won a ruling that finally answered the question the baker's case had left open.…
A house, two cars, a couple of kids, a retirement account that actually grows, and enough left over for a vacation once a year. That is roughly what "the American Dream" has meant for most of the past century. This year, this magazine decided to actually price it out, region…
A ten-year-old in 1979 could walk to the corner store, spend an afternoon in the woods with friends, and come home when the streetlights came on, all without a parent knowing exactly where he was for hours at a time. A ten-year-old today is more likely to have never walked…
A Juilliard-trained ballerina who married into a family that founded a major airline bakes sourdough in a floor-length dress for millions of followers, and the internet spends a week arguing about what her life actually proves. That fight, repeated across dozens of smaller accounts every week, is really three or…
