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Why Donald Trump? That's the big question the stunned Republican establishment, America's worried allies, and his frazzled Democratic opponents are asking. But here's the better question: Why did it take [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Back when 'Gunsmoke' was on TV and Lyndon B. Johnson was president, the United States economy managed to storm ahead by nearly 5 percent a year for [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Back when 'Gunsmoke' was on TV and Lyndon B. Johnson was president, the United States economy managed to storm ahead by nearly 5 percent a year for [...]

Back when ''Gunsmoke'' was on TV and Lyndon Johnson was president, the United States economy managed to storm ahead by nearly 5 percent a year for nearly a decade. What [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER America has been here before. At the dawn of the 20th century, the economy was already well into a fundamental transformation of the labor force, as industry [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER America has been here before. At the dawn of the 20th century, the economy was already well into a fundamental transformation of the labor force, as industry [...]

America has been here before. At the dawn of the 20th century, the economy was already well into a fundamental transformation of the labor force, as industry replaced farming and [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Not too long ago, Brazilians might have been counted as the most optimistic people in the world. From 2008 to 2013, as the United States and Europe [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Not too long ago, Brazilians might have been counted as the most optimistic people in the world. From 2008 to 2013, as the United States and Europe [...]

Not too long ago, Brazilians might have been counted as the most optimistic people in the world. From 2008 to 2013, as the United States and Europe grappled with the [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Half a century ago, harvesting California's 2.2 million tons of tomatoes for ketchup required as many as 45,000 workers. In the 1960s, though, scientists and engineers at [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Half a century ago, harvesting California's 2.2 million tons of tomatoes for ketchup required as many as 45,000 workers. In the 1960s, though, scientists and engineers at [...]

Half a century ago, harvesting California's 2.2 million tons of tomatoes for ketchup required as many as 45,000 workers. In the 1960s, though, scientists and engineers at the University of [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Are liberals impairing our ability to combat climate change? That may sound like a strange question, particularly to readers of The New York Times. Today conservatives are [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Are liberals impairing our ability to combat climate change? That may sound like a strange question, since conservatives are the ones decidedly blocking any effort by the [...]

Are liberals impairing our ability to combat climate change? That may sound like a strange question, particularly to readers of The New York Times. Today conservatives are the ones decidedly [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Malaria has preyed on humans for centuries. Hundreds of thousands of children die each year from the disease. Considering the market's size, why haven't pharmaceutical companies rushed [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Malaria has preyed on humans for centuries. Hundreds of thousands of children die each year from the disease. Considering the market's size, why haven't pharmaceutical companies rushed [...]

Malaria has preyed on humans for centuries. Hundreds of thousands of children die each year from the disease. Considering the market's size, why haven't pharmaceutical companies rushed to develop a [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Donald Trump, no doubt, is the most confounding candidate produced by the American political system in decades. He offers enormous tax cuts, as any bona fide Republican [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Donald J. Trump is, no doubt, the most confounding candidate produced by the American political system in decades. He offers up enormous tax cuts, as any bona [...]

Donald Trump, no doubt, is the most confounding candidate produced by the American political system in decades. He offers enormous tax cuts, as any bona fide Republican candidate must. But [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER When Donald Trump threatened to 'break' the North American Free Trade Agreement, auto industry workers offered up some of the loudest cheers. Mr. Trump easily won the [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER When Donald J. Trump threatened to 'break' the North American Free Trade Agreement, auto industry workers offered up some of the loudest cheers. Mr. Trump easily won [...]

When Donald Trump threatened to ''break'' the North American Free Trade Agreement, auto industry workers offered up some of the loudest cheers. Mr. Trump easily won the Republican primary in [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Should the government push poor people to marry? The urge to do so has a long pedigree, dating perhaps as far back as 1965. When serving as [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Should the United States government push poor people to get married? The urge to do so has a long pedigree, dating perhaps as far back as 1965, [...]

Should the government push poor people to marry? The urge to do so has a long pedigree, dating perhaps as far back as 1965. When serving as a Labor Department [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Were the experts wrong about the benefits of trade for the American economy? The nation's working class had another opportunity to demonstrate its political clout Tuesday, as [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Were the experts wrong about the benefits of trade for the American economy? The nation's working class had another opportunity to demonstrate its political clout Tuesday night, [...]

Were the experts wrong about the benefits of trade for the American economy? The nation's working class had another opportunity to demonstrate its political clout Tuesday, as primary voters went [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER and FARHAD MANJOO In the utopian (dystopian?) future projected by technological visionaries, few people would have to work. Wealth would be generated by millions upon millions of [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Can the government help Donald J. Trump's supporters? The political system is in shock over the insurrection of the white working class, which has flocked to Mr. [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Can the government help Donald J. Trump's supporters? The political system is in shock at the insurrection of the white working class, which has flocked to Mr. [...]

Can the government help Donald Trump's supporters? The political system is in shock over the insurrection of the white working class, which has flocked to Mr. Trump's candidacy. On the [...]

In the utopian (dystopian?) future projected by technological visionaries, few people would have to work. Wealth would be generated by millions upon millions of sophisticated machines. But how would people [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Ted Cruz says climate change is not happening. Donald Trump says he doesn't believe in it. Marco Rubio, whose hometown, Miami, is projected [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Ted Cruz says climate change is not happening. Donald Trump says he doesn't believe in it. Marco Rubio - whose hometown of Miami [...]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Ted Cruz says climate change is not happening. Donald Trump says he doesn't believe in it. Marco Rubio, whose hometown, Miami, is projected to be largely [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Why don't Americans save more for old age? Even when their employers promise to match their savings, workers often fail to salt away their earnings for the [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Why don't Americans save more for old age? Even when their employers promise to match their savings, workers often fail to salt any of their earnings away [...]

Why don't Americans save more for old age? Even when their employers promise to match their savings, workers often fail to salt away their earnings for the future, inexplicably leaving [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER The United States sure knows how to throw cold water on international harmony. Just two months have passed since the world's top diplomats cobbled together the best [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER The United States sure knows how to throw cold water on international harmony. Just two months have passed since the world's top diplomats cobbled together the best [...]

The United States sure knows how to throw cold water on international harmony. Just two months have passed since the world's top diplomats cobbled together the best plan we've ever [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER If you have been paying any attention to America's paralyzed politics, you are not going to believe this. Even as substantive legislation in Washington remained largely bogged [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER If you have been paying any attention to America's paralyzed politics you are not going to believe this. Even as substantive legislation in Washington remained largely bogged [...]

If you have been paying any attention to America's paralyzed politics, you are not going to believe this. Even as substantive legislation in Washington remained largely bogged down by bitter [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Just the other day I got an email in which Ron Paul, libertarian icon, former member of the United States Congress from Texas and father of the [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Just the other day I got an email in which Ron Paul, libertarian icon, former member of Congress from Texas and father of Republican presidential candidate Rand [...]