Fara Warner has been writing about business and economics for almost two decades for publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Fast Company. As a freelance journalist, she is a contributor to Forbes Asia, Mother Jones, The New York Times, DBusiness and other national publications. She is the author of The Power of the Purse: How Smart Companies Are Adapting to the World’s Most Important Consumers—Women. She currently lectures on journalism at the University of Michigan.

After an FBI raid of the Hutaree, Michigan’s militias are trying to get back to normal. Fara Warner on one group’s “open carry” picnic—and the “Militia Babes” calendar they use to help raise funds.