A reader wrote in through the Ask MediaFeed option with a question that turns out to be more common than most people realize. Every month, Medicare Part B premiums are deducted automatically from Social Security […]
The most common names the year you were born: Boomer edition Between 1946 and 1964, nearly 76 million babies were born during what historians call the Baby Boom. Their parents named them with a confidence […]
What a concert cost the year you were born vs. today There was a time when seeing your favorite band live cost less than a tank of gas. That time is gone, and the distance […]
Slang words only Southerners will understand The American South has produced some of the most linguistically inventive speech in the English-speaking world. Linguists note that Southern speech is often called “bad” English by people encountering […]
More brands we miss every single day A reader asked through the Ask MediaFeed option which disappeared brands we still think about. The brands that a generation grows up with do not simply become obsolete. […]
Retirement taxes across the U.S.: How does your state stack up? Where you retire determines how much of your income you actually keep. State tax rules vary so dramatically that the same pension, the same […]
Foods that tasted better back then (or did they?) There is a conversation that happens in almost every kitchen at some point. Someone takes a bite of something they have eaten a hundred times and […]
The most controversial song the year you were born: Gen X edition Generation X came of age to a soundtrack someone was always trying to silence. What made each song controversial was rarely the same […]
The most controversial songs of the ’90s: Do you agree? The 1990s shifted the debate over music and public morality from Capitol Hill to the culture at large. The Senate hearings of the 1980s had […]
Restaurants that felt fancy when we were kids There was a category of restaurant in the 1970s and 1980s that occupied a specific rung. Not fast food, not fine dining, but something that felt, to […]