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by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with The New Yorker. On Oct. 29, 2013, Hillary Clinton joined Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, for a discussion at its Builders and Innovators Summit, at the Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain resort...

INTRODUCTION: This is the second of a five-part series exploring the Iran-Contra Affair and its implications. Part 1 described the Reagan Administration’s secret wars and illegal arms deals exposed in the scandal. Part 2 explains how the constitutional...

It was January 1975, and the Watergate Babies had arrived in Washington looking for blood. The Watergate Babies—as the recently elected Democratic congressmen were known—were young, idealistic liberals who had been swept into office on a promise to clean...

Click here for reuse options! The decline of the white working class and the rise of the Tea Party and Donald Trump. Five years ago, the sociologist Arlie Hochschild set out to better understand what she called the “deep story” of the mostly white...

Brand is the be-all-end-all of Donald Trump. And the core of Trump’s brand is that squinty, jut-jowled, unreflective scowl, the Dirty Harry stare he insists on plastering everywhere — book covers, posters, his website—because it advertises his most marketable...