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Meticulous analysis of the social and economic problems of the US white working class
There is a conversation in the US about whether antitrust law should be rethought
Feminist historians are right to question the depiction of women as long-suffering
Some news organisations are nudging audiences to listen to the other side
Sometimes it is right for researchers to go public
Student loans are now 90 per cent public, in an eerie echo of the housing crisis
MIT ‘mind-reading’ device allows people to correct machines by using brainwaves
Box set sagas of social climbing take over from the classics of midlife agony
Engineer’s killing stirs unease over economic hostility aimed at South Asians in US
Courts ruled that would-be Trump ambassador and wife could not write off $5.9m of debt
Address to Congress is short on policy detail but calls for end to ‘trivial fights’
Penguin Random House wins bidding war for memoirs by former president and first lady
Many specialists doubt Trump team’s view that spike in urban violence is spreading
Study finds young adults now 4 times more likely to develop the disease than in 1970s
Incidents remain near a generational low, FBI statistics show
The administration risks alienating Americans with its ‘deconstruction’ agenda
In Greece and Italy the figure is under one in eight
