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Bloody Complicated

In 2004, Stephanie Meyer sparked a bona fide cultural phenomenon with her debut novel, Twilight, recounting the romance between 17-year-old... Read More

Looking For a Lake House?

A century ago, New York's richest families didn't summer in the Hamptons. (Yes, this is a story about people who use "summer" as a verb, with a... Read More

Be the Ball

Forty years ago this weekend, Orion Pictures released a comedy producers pitched as "Animal House on a golf course." The movie featured a scrappy... Read More

Aloha!

Coronavirus has millions of Americans rethinking where they choose to live, especially crowded cities. Back in February and March, New Yorkers led... Read More

Tax-Free Ninjas

Colleges looking to compete for students have added new fields like cybersecurity, political campaign management, and even beer fermentation. (That... Read More

Tax Footprint

This week's story takes us to Verkhoyansk, a frozen flyspeck of a town with 1,300 shivering souls deep inside Siberia, six miles from the Arctic... Read More

Taxcutoseum!

On June 27, 1997, an unknown British author rolled out her first novel, which she wrote in longhand because she couldn't afford a typewriter. The... Read More

Hands Off

Here in the United States, the National Football League's "Hypomatic 3000" machine works day and night to convince us that our brand of football is... Read More

“Reality” Bites

In the world of football, one family stands out among the rest: the Mannings. In tennis, it's the Williamses. And on television, it's the... Read More

Mom Totally Knows Best

In 1914, Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day. Ever since then, Americans have spent that day... Read More