Axios

Americans are spending less time hanging out than they were 20 years ago — and the trend cuts across every generation, Axios' Erica Pandey writes from new American Time Use Survey data.

Why it matters: It's a fundamental shift in the way we live our lives that has implications for everything from what we believe to how long we live.

We're alive at the single greatest moment in U.S. and human history. By a lot.

Why it matters: It's not even close, by almost every empirical measure. We live longer, better, richer, healthier and freer than those before us.