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donald trump in denmark
I’ve spent the past few days in Denmark, the country into which I’ve married and where, over the years, I’ve often been asked to explain...
jeffrey frank
Aug 17, 20164 min read
the lonely poverty of america's white working class
For the last several months, social scientists have been debating the striking findings of a study by the economists Anne Case and Angus...
victor tan chen the atlantic
Aug 16, 201610 min read
the crotch-grabber
On a spring day in recent memory, I was strolling up Ninth Avenue alone, after leaving a bistro lunch with a gentleman caller and my...
mary karr the newyorker
Aug 11, 20167 min read
time to get serious with south sudan
Since the founding of the nation of South Sudan five years ago, its citizens have gone from a brief moment of exhilaration and promise to...
nytimes editorial board
Aug 10, 20163 min read
do economists underestimate the impact of social factors on behaviour?
The World Bank’s conference on “The State of Economics, the State of the World” was an opportunity to take stock of the emergence of new...
karla hoff
Aug 8, 20164 min read
the original underclass
Sometime during the past few years, the country started talking differently about white Americans of modest means. Early in the Obama...
alec macgillis and propublica
Aug 5, 201621 min read
the key to political persuasion
IN business, everyone knows that if you want to persuade people to make a deal with you, you have to focus on what they value, not what...
robb willer and matthew feinberg
Aug 4, 20163 min read
kidnapped and sold
In March 2011, Rose Candis had the worst lunch of her life. Sitting at a restaurant in Shaoguan, a small city in South China, the...
charlie custer
Aug 1, 201620 min read
why it pays to tell americans who they are
When President Barack Obama is trying to persuade Americans not to do something, he has a go-to line: “That’s not who we are.” Whether...
cass sunstein
Jul 30, 20163 min read
meet the big-name republicans supporting hillary clinton
At Thursday's session of the Democratic National Convention, the party rolled out a number of Republicans who are supporting Hillary...
aaron blake
Jul 29, 20164 min read
our global institutions are not fit for purpose. it’s time for reform
The Brexit vote and the candidacy of Donald Trump are not exceptional developments. They are symptoms of a wider global phenomenon – a...
mary kaldor
Jul 28, 20166 min read
a republican intellectual explains why the republican party is going to die
CLEVELAND — Avik Roy is a Republican’s Republican. A health care wonk and editor at Forbes, he has worked for three Republican...
zack beauchamp
Jul 26, 20166 min read
to work better, work less
Between 1853 and 1870, Baron Haussmann ordered much of Paris to be destroyed. Slums were razed and converted to bourgeois neighborhoods,...
cody delistraty
Jul 25, 20167 min read
Contaminating Our Bodies With Everyday Products
IN recent weeks, two major medical organizations have issued independent warnings about toxic chemicals in products all around us....
nicholas kristof
Jul 22, 20163 min read
Why Giving Back Isn’t Enough
DURING this season of giving, I will join millions of Americans in volunteering to feed the homeless, contributing to clothing drives and...
darren walker
Jul 19, 20164 min read
We’re Helping Deport Kids to Die
TAPACHULA, Mexico — Elena was 11 years old when a gang member in her home country, Honduras, told her to be his girlfriend. “I had to say...
nicholas kristoff
Jul 17, 20165 min read
An opportunity to turbo charge women’s economic empowerment
Over the past decade or so we’ve had a dotcom boom, and seen impressive economic growth in many developing and middle income countries....
justine greening
Jul 16, 20163 min read
How Do We Get More People to Have Good Lives?
The Obama administration has invested heavily in a data-based drive to improve the math, reading and science skills of the nation’s...
thomas b edsall
Jul 15, 20166 min read
white america couldn't handle what black america deals with everyday
On Wednesday President Obama gave what could be the most important speech of his presidency in Dallas at the memorial service for the...
henry rollins
Jul 15, 20164 min read
Anger: An American History
WHERE, many have asked these last weeks, do the rhetorical fireballs — the raging suspicion and rabid xenophobia — come from? Barring...
stacey schiff
Jul 14, 20164 min read
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