In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being… — Michael Shnayerson Copy Share Image
If the '80s were about Christian Lacroix ball gowns, the '90s give us wealthy women who either go to work or pretend to, and… — Michael Shnayerson Copy Share Image
Forgers can start with the same photographic images Warhol did, and sometimes knock off silkscreens only an expert can distinguish from the originals. — Michael Shnayerson Copy Share Image
In the hierarchy of public lands, national parks by law have been above the rest: America's most special places, where natural beauty and all… — Michael Shnayerson Copy Share Image
The fashion industry is often charged with having kept its blinders on as one Seventh Avenue company after another lost employees to AIDS. Consumers,… — Michael Shnayerson Copy Share Image
For rather particular reasons, the interior-design industry moved more quickly than fashion to cope with AIDS. One reason is that it is made up… — Michael Shnayerson Copy Share Image
For an acquisitive Wall Streeter, the money saved by choosing a practical car can be put toward the cost of some pricier means of… — Michael Shnayerson Copy Share Image
In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count… — Michael Shnayerson Copy Share Image
The story of mountaintop mining - why it happens, and what its consequences are - is still new to most Americans. They have no… — Michael Shnayerson Copy Share Image
Directly after Rock Hudson's death came the fears that gay writers and actors and directors would be denied jobs; who knew if they would… — Michael Shnayerson Copy Share Image
There's one place, and one place only, to see polar bears in America. You have to travel to the country's northernmost point, the very… — Michael Shnayerson Copy Share Image
