Alec Baldwin Gets Under Trump’s Skin
Comedy and tragedy in an age of political chaos
The Money Report: how online shopping makes suckers of us all, how Walmart tricks people into saving, the plan to end Europe, and late-night comedy’s role in the rise of Trump. Plus, apps for aid in a humanitarian crisis, and more.
Comedy and tragedy in an age of political chaos
Sneering hosts have alienated conservatives and made liberals smug.
By antagonizing the U.S.’s neighbor to the south, Donald Trump has made the classic bully’s error: He has underestimated his victim.
Will you pay more for those shoes before 7 p.m.? Would the price tag be different if you lived in the suburbs? Standard prices and simple discounts are giving way to far more exotic strategies, designed to extract every last dollar from the consumer.
Inside Walmart’s curious, possibly ingenious effort to get customers to build up their savings accounts
Two law professors tried to mimic big activist hedge funds, investing their retirement savings in a small, languishing public company and trying to shake it up. Here’s what happened.
The United States periodically debates whether to do more or less abroad. Trump won by promising both. But he can’t possibly deliver.
Why does the president want to undo the post–World War II order?
How halal meat, french fries, cheese, and a trio of sauces came to represent much more than food
California’s new attorney general, Xavier Becerra, prepares to battle Trump.
The coddling of the American pet
The TWA terminal at JFK airport was an icon of mid-century cool. Now it’s being reincarnated as a hotel.
How technology helps in a humanitarian crisis
A very short book excerpt
Indiana-born, Twitter-savvy, and Millennially mischievous, Patricia Lockwood taps into the temper of the times.
What happens on the mound has more to do with the mind than the arm.
Why conservative evangelicals have lined up behind Trump
How the poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell became each other’s tragic muses
Michael Frank’s sharp memoir about an unusual upbringing
Readers respond to our March cover story and more.
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