The alt-right’s small gains in popularity will not be enough to win Trump the election. This is not Germany in the 1930s. All that’s changed is that one of Alex’s fans — one of those grumpy looking mi...
In a crowd we are microbes infecting everyone around us, a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will. We are impulsive, irritable, irrational:
I saw at least one analysis of the experiment where the author seemed to find it perfectly plausible that if a person was overcome by a violent madness he’d involuntarily start to sound like someone f...
I just want you to know that it makes me feel like shit to do this. And Jonah paused, Michael told me. And then he said to me, no joke, he said, ‘You know, I really don’t care how you feel.’ Michael s...
Bryna is convinced her children are bipolar, and I wasn’t going to swoop into a stranger’s home for an afternoon and tell them all they were normal.
As a group they tend to be more charming than most people, she said. They have no warm emotions of their own but will study the rest of us.
I spent a few hours with Mercedes. She was, on the surface, quite troll-like—a lover of jubilant online chaos. She told me about her favorite 4chan thread. It was started by a guy who's genuinely in l...
Before working with Trump, Manafort had been Yanukovych’s election strategist. There was something quite Trump-ish about his former client, not least his $75 million palace — with its golden chandelie...
What Jim had seen tallied with studies conducted after the Second WorldWar by the military historian General S.L.A. Marshall. He interviewed thousands of American infantrymen and concluded that only 1...