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Rape culture was a thing, women's rights only existed on paper, and violent crime was abundant, and a lot serial killers thrived in this decade. And there were also a handful of bad teen idols. Donny Osmond is basically the 70s version of pre-puberty Justin Bieber and you can see the similarities.

Led Zeppelin was the biggest rock band in the world in the '70s—but released their first album (to huge success) in 1969. And The Washington Post makes the case that even the Hippies, the most iconic symbol of the 1960s, actually hit their peak of influence and popularity in the 1970s. The worst-looking decade ever Shutterstock

The 1970s were perhaps the worst decade of most industrialized countries' economic performance since the Great Depression. Although there was no severe economic depression as witnessed in the 1930s, economic growth rates were considerably lower than previous decades.

Deep Read ( 14 Min. ) By Peter Grier Staff writer Noah Robertson Staff writer December 22, 2021 | Washington Protests. An ugly withdrawal from a botched foreign war. Inflation. Politics riven by...

Stephen Paul Miller calls the 1970s the uncanny decade—the “undecade.”. Things were particularly weird in these years, which remain shrouded in America’s cultural memory, as if by a kind of smog. One reason for the haze is the period’s elusive placement between the highly overdetermined 1960s—often considered by historians to last ...