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America Will Never Be Safe
Fifteen years after 9/11, it’s time for the United States to learn to live with permanent insecurity.
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The Original Underclass
“Poor white Americans’ current crisis shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has.”
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Can Brazil Be Saved?
Colossal corruption. Political chaos. The worst recession in its history. The Olympics won’t rescue the once-booming nation. But all is not lost.
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‘White Trash’ — The Original Underclass
Waste people. Rubbish. Clay-eaters. Hillbillies. Two new books that reckon with the long, bleak history of the country’s white poor suggest their plight shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country off guard.
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I Asked Academia’s Most Vocal Critic Why College Is a Waste
What I Pledge Allegiance To
Reckoning with the American flag.
Joe Scarborough Has Big Dreams
A profile of the congressman turned morning show host, who spends his free time working on a musical about Donald Trump.
How Washington Blew Its Best Chance to Fix Immigration
Three years ago, the Republican-led House was close to reaching a compromise on immigration. This is the story of what went wrong.
The State of the Presidential Debate
“Political argument has been having a terrible century. Instead of arguing, everyone from next-door neighbors to members of Congress has got used to doing the I.R.L. equivalent of posting to the comments section: serially fulminating.”
How Snowden Escaped
The story of two weeks when the most wanted man in the world was hidden in the depths of a Hong Kong slum.
The Last Last Summer
Donald Trump and the fall of Atlantic City.
"We're the Only Plane in the Sky"
An oral history of Air Force One on September 11th.
Monkeywrench
The radical environmental group Earth First! orchestrates a musical in Florida.
Gary Johnson Has a Plan
A week with the Libertarian presidential candidate, who hasn’t ruled out a win in November.
This Man Is the Most Dangerous Political Operative in America
Meet Steve Bannon. He’s a former naval officer and Goldman Sachs banker, the executive chairman of Breitbart News and the founding chairman of the Government Accountability Institute, and, as of this week, in charge of Donald Trump’s campaign.
Ivanka and Jared’s Power Play
On the couple and their role in the 2016 election.
Is America Any Safer?
Since 9/11, the United States has spent $1 trillion on national security. An investigation into whether it has worked.
The Devil is Loose
Paramedics pick up the pieces on the Texas-Mexico border.
Confessions of a Political Hacker
How Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections across Latin America.
The Longform Guide to Hillary Clinton
From her early political career to the challenges she's faced in 2016 — a reading list on the Democratic nominee for president.
How John Hinckley Lives Now
He drives a Toyota. He eats fro-yo. He takes care of two dozen feral cats.
Editor’s note, 7/27/16: Hinckley has won his freedom and will live full-time with his mother.
The Second-Strangest Campaign of the Season
It’s in Florida and it involves Marco Rubio, the 33-year-old preferred candidate of the Democratic establishment, and “the only member of Congress whose desk is decorated with a plaque that reads: I HAVE FLYING MONKEYS AND I’M NOT AFRAID TO USE THEM!”
Beheld Live at the RNC
A report from the convention floor.
The Yunited States of Yuge
A look inside Donald Trump’s portfolio of exclusive real estate properties.
The Civil War that Could Doom the N.R.A.
There’s a growing gap between the gun lobby’s leadership and its rank-and-file.
Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All
Writing The Art of the Deal made Tony Schwartz rich. He still regrets it.
“I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.”
Confessions of a Dishonest Slob: How the Haters and Losers Got Trump...
Donald Trump has spent decades seeking revenge on the many people who have taunted him. One of them was this reporter, who two years ago wrote that Trump would never run.
The Deep State
On Erdogan’s struggle for power.
The Library of Last Resort
How the Library of Congress failed to adapt to the 21st century.
