What It Was Like to See Hillary Clinton Make History In 2016, she’s the first woman to become a major-party nominee for president.
republican national convention
July 22, 2016
Peter Thiel Is Pro-Trump, Mainly Because He’s Pro-Trolling His speech at the RNC didn’t make any sense, and that may be the point.
How ‘Bitch’ Became the Word of the Republican National Convention The hatred for Hillary Clinton veers toward the most crass of insults.
it’s the economy
July 19, 2016
What Trump Backers Really Want From the Economy It’s not about balanced budgets or limited government.
That Raise Jamie Dimon Gave to JPMorgan’s Lowest-Paid Employees? It’s Puny A $1.85-per-hour raise spread out over three years from a man who took home $27 million last year.
the future is now
June 30, 2016
early and often
June 28, 2016
Trump Is Right About Trade Hurting American Workers, But His Fix Makes No Sense Globalization did create a lot of losers, but Trump’s seven-point policy cure is pure crazy.
continental drift
June 24, 2016
Brexit: Britain’s Middle Finger to the World In the U.K., emotion triumphed over reason, and Britons hurt not only themselves but everyone else.
How Donald Trump Explains ‘Brexit’ The same forces tearing at Great Britain before its big EU vote helped give rise to the GOP candidate.
Hillary Clinton Should Be Worried About This Lousy Jobs Report A few more like this one could help tip the election to the Orange Man.
How Europe Can Alleviate Its Migrant Crisis — and Save Itself The continent’s economy is growing slowly, and thousands are still landing on its shores — or dying in the attempt.
The Anti-Poverty Experiment That Could Fix America’s Broken Welfare System Advocates on both the left and the right are talking about universal basic income — and its first big test is just about to begin.
the economy
Mar. 31, 2016
We Could Be In for Another Recession, and We’re Not Ready for It The government may be unable or unwilling to use the tactics that got us through the last one.
Central Banks Go Negative There’s a crazy monetary-policy experiment happening in Europe and Asia, and it might not be going well.
early and often
Mar. 1, 2016
Imagining President Trump: A Conversation New York Magazine’s team of political writers game out the once-fantastical but now quite possible prospect of a Trump presidency.
nothing to see here
Feb. 29, 2016
Which Oscars Stars Had Plastic Surgery? Nobody Knows Anymore. Lasers and “mini-Botox” have actors looking more natural than ever.
Who’s Winning the Great Bernie Magic-Math Battle? Bernie Sanders’s economic plan won’t deliver 5 percent growth, but his proposal might have a lesson to teach Hillary.
It’s Time for Welfare Reform Again Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are failing to address the terrible hole at the very bottom of the safety net.
Bernie Sanders Has Started Thinking Like a Republican Why shouldn’t Democrats get to have fun with magical economic growth?
Chris Christie, the Second-Best Bully of the GOP Field The New Jersey governor’s run is probably coming to a close.
Trump Sums Up Candidacy With Vulgar Cruz Slam The moment perfectly encapsulated his magnetism and psychosis, his appeal and his incoherence, his brilliance and his terribleness.
Hillary Clinton Versus Her Surrogates She’s been needlessly thrown into a thicket of generational and gender politics.
How Donald Rumsfeld Became an App Developer The 83-year-old two-time secretary of Defense did his own beta-testing.
Good-bye to All That Twitter Two New York staffers find enlightenment, or at least more time for Facebook, on a turn-of-the-year social-media holiday.
What Ted Cruz and ISIS Have in Common Hint: It has to do with Janet Yellen.
Janet Yellen Is Trying to Slow Down the Economy. But Why? She’s just hiked interest rates for the first time since 2006.
Jeb’s Tax Plan Would— LOL, Nothing Matters And by “nothing matters” we mean “add $6.8 trillion to the deficit.”
Hillary’s Wall Street Trust Gap Why don’t progressives trust Clinton?
Get Ready for an Interest-Rate Hike It’s Jobs Day, and the report shows businesses added 211,000 positions in November.
President Trump Would Destroy the Economy The Donald’s (sketchy) policy proposals suggest big stimulus, big inequality, and a global trade war.
Mark Zuckerberg Is Giving Away 99 Percent of His Facebook Fortune And he is still going to be way richer than even the richest Americans.
Thomas Piketty Thinks Inequality Led to the Rise of ISIS. Is That Crazy? The French academic draws from his best seller Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
Square Goes Public, and the Tech Bubble Deflates Public markets have not had the same enthusiasm for tech companies as private financiers.
Unemployment 5 Percent in ‘Hellscape’ Economy There must be some bad news in the jobs report somewhere.
Banker Who Quit Goldman Wants to Fix Your 401(k) Greg Smith is president of a midwestern retirement-savings start-up.
Can Oprah Save Weight Watchers? The media mogul and the diet business hope to get fit together.
No, Depressed American Towns Do Not Look Like Zimbabwe Are trade deals turning the United States into Zimbabwe?
Janet Yellen’s Hotel California Will the Fed ever be able to raise rates again?
How Tax Evasion Is Fueling Inequality A new book explains why everyone should be up in arms about billionaires’ Cayman Islands accounts.
The Problem With Government Handouts Jeb Bush is worried about too many Americans getting too much “free stuff.”
Uber-for-Helicopters Takes on Pope Traffic An eight-minute hop from the West Side to the East Side, or vice versa, will cost just $95.
Why Celebrities Love Pot As a business venture, that is.
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