“If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is” should be a cautionary motto for passengers. Promising low fares to top destinations, low-cost carriers lure in budget travelers with the chance to…
The red-hot U.S. auto market is cooling. Total car sales in the United States fell 2.4% in the first half of 2019 and are projected to fall below 17 million for the entire year…
Women won the right to vote in a number of countries before they won it in the U.S. New Zealand was the first, back in 1893, to pass women’s suffrage. Australia followed in 1902.…
Fashion trends, as cyclical as they are, can fizzle out, but sometimes come back. Some retro styles are even better the second time around. They can return in a big way, go mainstream, and…
The U.S. annual population growth recently hit its lowest level in 80 years. Even with the recent slowdown, the U.S. population has been growing steadily for years. There are nearly 18.5 million more people…
As the summer comes to an end, an estimated 56.6 million American children and teens will soon attend school. Some 3.7 million students are expected to graduate from high school at the end of…
You might think that the 21 Democratic candidates for president in 2020 (actually 20 — Bernie Sanders is an Independent), plus a couple over on the other side, represent an almost bewilderingly large field…
The United States has exercised an outsized influence on popular culture since the early part of the 20th century through motion pictures and the creation of music genres such as jazz and rock and…
On October 5, 1941, the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean ended in Wenatchee, Washington, 41 hours after the plane left Japan. Thankfully, transoceanic flights are much faster nowadays, though being stuck in…
Even though summer is not technically over until the end of September, the beginning of the month already brings with it several signs that beach weather will soon be behind us. First, there is…
Thanks to technological advances, today’s world is smaller than ever before and people are moving around at unprecedented rates. According to recent United Nations estimates, the world has at any given time more than…
Moviegoers in the U.S. and Canada bought 1.3 billion movie tickets in 2018, according to the National Association of Theatre Owners. While this is higher than in 2017, it is still well below Hollywood’s…
The share of children living in a single mother household has nearly doubled over the past 50 years. Single mothers in America today face unique challenges balancing the responsibilities of work and childcare and…
Over the last 100 years, Hollywood studios and surrounding areas were the filming locations for many classic movies. Southern California is not only the home base of many of the country’s largest production companies,…
The U.S. housing market is close to its highest value ever. The median sale price of a home sold in the second quarter of 2019 was $279,600, a 4.3% increase compared to the same…
