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The Great Republican Revolt
The GOP planned a dynastic restoration in 2016. Instead, it triggered an internal class war. Can the party reconcile the demands of its donors with the interests of its rank and file?
How the DEA took down one of the world’s most notorious drug cartels, the U.S. moves left, Erika Christakis on the decline of preschools, inside Volkswagen’s scandal, the GOP’s internal war, and more
The GOP planned a dynastic restoration in 2016. Instead, it triggered an internal class war. Can the party reconcile the demands of its donors with the interests of its rank and file?
Republicans may have a lock on Congress and the nation’s statehouses—and could well win the presidency—but the liberal era ushered in by Barack Obama is only just beginning.
In just the past six years, the evangelical owners of Hobby Lobby have amassed one of the world’s largest private collections of biblical antiquities. Why?
… And how this helped give rise to the criminal empire of Chapo Guzmán
Obama’s effort to fix an overextended foreign policy is a lot like Nixon and Kissinger’s.
Today’s young children are working more, but they’re learning less.
Nick Hanauer is on an unusual mission.
On the origins of corporate evil—and idiocy
The professional benefits of using curse words
Micropigs? Dinosaur chickens? Tweeting dogs?
Cornell is building one of the greenest high-rises in the world.
A very short book excerpt
An ancient style of fighting makes a comeback.
The star podcaster’s success is rooted in his early-career failure and despair.
The British prime minister could handle the Blitz but not his bills.
What allowed sexual abuse to go unchecked at the prestigious private school in the 1970s?
Her husband, Ted Hughes, drew on his childhood to create powerful poetry.
The latest novel from Mary Rakow, This Is Why I Came, could be called the “agnostic Gospels.”
Readers write in about our interview with Bill Gates and more.
A big question
A poem