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Adventures in Housing

Storybook-style houses evoke "nostalgia, whimsy" says Dallas designer

by Sarah Leeson
Oct 21, 2024
"It would be definitely a bucket list of mine to get to visit all of them in my lifetime," said Annilee Waterman, a residential designer in Dallas.
Marie Antoinette's cottage on the grounds of Versailles is considered the first storybook-style home.
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50 years ago, it was legal to deny a woman credit without a male co-signer

by Savannah Peters
Oct 21, 2024
The 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act made it illegal to discriminate against applicants based on sex or marital status.
While laws have addressed the most overt biases, other forms of discrimination exist, like predatory lending and algorithms that amplify human biases, says Jennifer Chien of Consumer Reports.
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Race and Economy

Why the date August 28 has special significance in American history

by David Brancaccio , Lee Hawkins , Alex Schroeder and Erika Soderstrom
Aug 28, 2024
A number of events important to the Civil Rights Movement — from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech to Emmett Till's murder — took place on Aug. 28.
On Aug. 28, 2008, Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president at the DNC in Denver, Colorado.
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When ancestry tests reveal more than genetics

by David Brancaccio , Lee Hawkins and Alex Schroeder
Jul 9, 2024
Special correspondent Lee Hawkins shares his experience finding new family with online genetics tests — and reconciling fraught history.
"The truth is, we can't really change the past, but we can affect the present and the future," says Lee Hawkins, who learned from a genetics test that nearly a fifth of his DNA is from Wales.
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Shelf Life

Inflation and politics have always been connected

by Carola Binder
May 21, 2024
Rising costs have long been a concern for Americans. What's changed is how the government intervenes in prices, economist Carola Binder writes.
"The return of inflation was not only, or even primarily, an academic concern. It was, even more, a social and a political one," economist Carola Binder writes in her book "Shock Values."
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"California Typewriter"

How the typewriter propelled women into the office

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon
Nov 24, 2021
Typewriters were "crucial" to the rise of women's workforce participation in the 20th century, says economic historian Elyce Rotella.
Typewriters were "crucial" to the rise of women's workforce participation in the 20th century, says economic historian Elyce Rotella.
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Did department stores train people to be difficult customers?

by Reema Khrais and Anais Amin
Aug 13, 2021
Amanda Mull, a staff writer at The Atlantic, argues that department stores had a hand in building class consciousness.
Customers shop at Macys department store in New York on Black Friday, Nov. 27, 2020.
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Why the insurrection at the Capitol was an economically significant moment

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Jan 14, 2021
Three economic historians weigh in.
Trump supporters gather at the U.S. Capitol prior to Wednesday's insurrection. “We have often lost sight of the fact that our biggest and most successful export is not capitalism, but is democracy,” said Kathleen Day, an expert on financial crises.
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How the Spanish flu contributed to the rise of Hollywood

by Maria Hollenhorst
Nov 19, 2020
The 1918 pandemic helped shift the film industry’s center of power. Could the coronavirus pandemic do the same?
A scene from the 1923 film "The Ten Commandments," one of the films that helped establish Southern California as the center of the film industry in the years following the pandemic of 1918.
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Soap saves countless lives every year. Here's how it was invented

by Andie Corban
May 25, 2020
Cody Cassidy, author of "Who Ate the First Oyster?" said the inventor of soap had no idea about its life-saving potential.
More soap use can save lives, the World Health Organization says.
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