“How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind”

“Blue islands in an ocean of red. The cities are less than 4 percent of the land mass, but 62 percent of the population and easily 99 percent of the popular culture. Our movies, shows, songs, and news all radiate out from those blue islands.

“Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60. Find Yours.”

“These patterns are important because previous research has found that there are many highly qualified lower-income students who do not attend selective colleges — and because…

“Millions of ordinary Americans support Donald Trump. Here’s why”

“It seems to obsess him: the destructive free-trade deals our leaders have made, the many companies that have moved their production facilities to other lands, the phone calls he will make to those companies’ CEOs in…

“Gentrification’s insidious violence: The truth about American cities”

“What is distinctively ‘American’ is not necessarily the amount or kind of violence that characterizes our history,” Richard Slotkin writes, “but the mythic significance we have assigned to the kinds of…

“The Danger of Telling Poor Kids That College Is the Key to Social Mobility”

“She’d been encouraged to think of college foremost as a path to socioeconomic mobility. Since elementary school, teachers had rhapsodized about the opportunities that four years of higher education…

“IVANKA TRUMP’S TERRIBLE BOOK HELPS EXPLAIN THE TRUMP-FAMILY ETHOS”

“The cognitive dissonance on display here might prompt a reader who wishes to preserve her sanity to close the book immediately. But “The Trump Card” is instructive, if not as a manual for young women interested…

“The Golden Generation: Why China’s super-rich send their children abroad.”

“The children of wealthy Chinese are known as fuerdai, which means “rich second generation.” In a culture where poverty and thrift were long the norm, their extravagances have become notorious. Last…

“TV’s Dwindling Middle Class”

“In 2007, television underwent a great expansion — beyond the major broadcast networks, beyond televisions and into all kinds of genres — just at the moment the economy shrank, and a fantasy emerged. As real people became poorer and lost their jobs, the ones on TV got richer…