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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty America Is Acting Like a Failed State
Many businesses, local governments, and individuals are doing what is necessary to beat back the coronavirus—with little help from the White House.
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Ruby Aitken The Coronavirus Is Creating a Huge, Stressful Experiment in Working From Home
Even before the pandemic struck, remote work was accelerating in the U.S. But the next few months will be a very strange test of our white-collar future.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Give People Money Immediately
The mayhem wrought by the coronavirus is unique and complex. But there is at least one simple and necessary economic response: stimulus.
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Matt Rourke / AP Why Do Such Elderly People Run America?
Sanders is too old. So is Biden. Trump too.
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Associated Press Joe Biden Just Killed the Momentum Theory of Politics
An eight-word summary of the Democratic primary: Momentum is a myth, and demographics are destiny.
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Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Bernie Sanders Is George McGovern
The similarities between 2020 and 1972 are too astonishing to ignore. But there’s one big difference.
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M Scott Brauer / Redux The Democratic Party of 2020 Is Broken
The primary process rewards whoever arrives at the ballot box with the biggest, loudest base.
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Kamil Krzaczynski / AFP / Getty Why Men Vote for Republicans, and Women Vote for Democrats
The gender gap is larger than ever.
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Reuters What Does Michael Bloomberg Think He’s Doing?
The former mayor could go down as the white knight of establishment Democrats, a secret agent for democratic socialism, or a real-world experiment in the limits of plutocracy.
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Robert Galbraith / Reuters Why Texans Don’t Want Any More Californians
Migrants from the Golden State could change the character of their new homes.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters How Capitalism Broke Young Adulthood
Boomers have socialism. Why not Millennials?
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Mats Silvan / Getty America Is Overrun With Bathrooms
In the past half century, the number of bathrooms per American has doubled.
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Bloomberg / Getty Why Manhattan’s Skyscrapers Are Empty
Approximately half of the luxury-condo units that have come onto the market in the past five years are still unsold.
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Getty When a Promotion Leads to Divorce
People cling to the traditional notion that career success is a male drama in which women must do their best in a supporting role.
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Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters The Capitalist Way to Make Americans Stop Eating Meat
Carnivores are falling for the magic of a longer menu full of plant-based options.
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Rogelio V. Solis / AP The 2020 Election Will Break History
This year, Americans will almost certainly elect the oldest president, the youngest president, or the only president to ever win reelection following impeachment.
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Thomas Mukoya / Reuters Three Theories for Why You Have No Time
Better technology means higher expectations, and higher expectations create more work.
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Photo rendering: Patrick White The Real Trouble With Silicon Valley
The toxicity of the web is peanuts compared with Big Tech’s failure to remake the physical world.
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Scott Morgan / Reuters Why Is the Young Left Out to Get Buttigieg? Here Are Four Theories.
The candidate represents a new age of Democrats without representing its politics.
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Charles Krupa / AP The Millennials-Versus-Boomers Fight Divides the Democratic Party
The young left has become a sort of third party.
