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There’s something almost disorienting about looking back at the things that used to make you the envy of the neighborhood. In the ’80s, status could be earned with a boombox, a pair of roller skates, or a pocketful of quarters. The rules were simple. The stakes, at least in hindsight, felt genuinely low. The funny …

There’s a particular kind of nostalgia that comes with remembering childhood in the 1970s and 1980s: long summer days with no check-ins, bikes without helmets, car rides without much thought given to restraints. For many people, these memories carry a warm, almost carefree feeling. Yet when you look at them through the lens of what …

Walking into a job interview after 50 is a different experience than it was twenty years ago. The fundamentals haven’t changed – preparation, confidence, clarity – but the landscape around you has. Research shows that about two in three adults ages 50-plus in the labor force believe older workers face age discrimination in the workplace …

Growing up in the 1980s had a quality that’s genuinely hard to explain to anyone who wasn’t there. It was loud and colorful, full of neon and synthesizers and Saturday morning cartoons. It also had an undercurrent of low-grade dread that nobody really talked about, because nobody had the language for it yet. You were …

Cinema has always had the power to disturb. From its earliest days, films capable of triggering genuine public outrage or irrational fear were met not just with criticism but with outright prohibition. Governments, religious groups, and moral guardians have all taken their turn at the censor’s desk, and the results have been fascinating – sometimes …