Addison Del Mastro

A formerly dominant American retail chain nears extinction.

Pheasants? 'Dickory dock'? Toyland? Here's how a narrow slice of American history changed the holidays forever.

The fast-food age began with scrappy entrepreneurship, but corporate concentration has made the chains dull and uninspiring.

Amidst so much politics and tribalism, they can provide portals into thoughtfully rendered alternate worlds.

But maybe those midcentury classics weren't really Christmas songs at all.

The nostalgia of some conservatives hearkens back to a different—and irretrievable—economic time.