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Illustration by Mark Weaver; Photos by Bernard Hoffman ... The Four-Letter Code to Selling Just About Anything
What makes things cool?
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Mitch Dumke / Reuters The Dangerous Myth That Hillary Clinton Ignored the Working Class
To many white Trump voters, the problem wasn’t her economic stance, but the larger vision—a multi-ethnic social democracy—that it was a part of.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters The Republican Attack on the American Dream
The GOP speaker of the House says social mobility for the poor is a core American value. His plans to cut Medicaid would almost certainly achieve the opposite.
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Reuters Red Nation, Pink Economics
Donald Trump drew support from counties where men’s jobs are going away, while women’s jobs are ascendant. There’s nothing he can do to change it.
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John Locher / AP The Donald Trump Playbook
Campaign in populism, govern in plutocracy
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters It's Still the Same United States
What did Americans really learn about their country on Tuesday night?
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Things Are About to Get Much Worse for Poor Americans
They didn’t vote for this. Richer Americans did.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Hillary Clinton and Millennials: Perfect Together
Young voters and the Democratic nominee have a complicated relationship. But her platform is an excellent match for their values.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Barack Obama’s Criminally Underrated Jobs Record
Since Donald Trump said “there are no jobs” in 2015, the U.S. has created 3 million of them.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The Print Apocalypse and How to Survive It
With paper ads in massive decline, legacy newspapers like The New York Times are slowly returning to the business models that dominated the ’30s—the 1830s.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Why Do Millennials Hate Groceries?
Because they prefer chips from CVS and going out to restaurants. And, increasingly, so do their parents.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters When Will Robots Take All the Jobs?
There isn’t much evidence from today’s statistics that human workers are on the verge of a historic shift. But just wait until the next recession.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Why Investors Are Terrified of a President Trump
The Republican nominee’s presidential campaign has been nightmarish for his hotel business. Financial markets foresee a similar effect on the world economy.
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Wikimedia Does Advertising Ruin Everything?
"We have to get over our addiction to free stuff. Suck it up and pay,” says Tim Wu, the author of a new book on the history of ads.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Donald J. Trump’s Television Future
He may lose the election. But how will Trump capitalize on his political celebrity? Here are four possibilities.
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Mike Segar / Reuters ‘It’s Policy That Matters’
Donald Trump’s dwindling cadre of advocates urge reporters and voters to focus on his substance, not his sins. His tax plan, however, would not benefit from such scrutiny.
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Ken Blaze / Reuters NFL Ratings Just Fell Off a Cliff: Why?
Four culprits: Presidential debates, cord-cutters, Twitter streams, and Peyton Manning.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The Invisible Revolution: How Aging Is Quietly Changing America
A rapidly growing elderly population might be the most important yet inevitable feature of the country’s economic future. Why aren’t voters hearing more about it?
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Brian Snyder / Reuters No, Not Gary Johnson
The Libertarian candidate puts a likable face on a deeply troubling economic policy.
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David Gray / Reuters Trump’s Vision of the Economy vs. the Actual Economy
At the first debate, he conjured up an economic dystopia that was largely a fantasy.
