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How Wealth Plays Into Politics at a Personal Level

Research generally confirms what many voters perhaps always intuited: that wealth changes political leaders qualitatively.

How Nikki Haley Was Redeemed by Donald Trump

The governor’s identity may feel tailored to reassure white Americans — but in her response to the State of the Union address, she appealed to a nation united by something deeper than appearances.

How Donald Trump Redeemed Nikki Haley

The governor’s identity may feel tailored to reassure white Americans — but in her response to the State of the Union address, she appealed to a nation united by something deeper than appearances.

An America Conflicted About Outsiders

Last year, the United States was roiled by hostility toward immigrants. Yet stories about the insight of outsiders also emerged in literature and on the big screen.

Trumpism After Trump

Donald Trump, the candidate, may or may not last. But the ideas he’s bringing into national circulation are sure to linger.

On Twitter, San Bernardino Shooting Divides More Than Unites

To comb through the online reaction in the first hours after the attacks was to witness the depth and intensity of the divisions in America.

In Arguments Over Terrorism, Echoes of World War II

Seven decades on, it is remarkable how many of our political arguments continue to focus on the resistance of Nazi-like behavior, whether in ourselves or others.

How Trump Has Upended the Story Line

Reflecting the populist drift of the far right of the Republican Party, Donald J. Trump has deftly played into the central fears of many voters.

When a Country Asks Its Citizens to Fund Humanitarian Aid

Crowdfunding raises complicated questions about the nature of humanitarianism and what it means for a “nation” to help, in this case to aid millions of refugees.

Francis Sees Both Sides of Business

The pope’s philosophy seems to be a mix of what we might call pro-business and anticapitalist.