Donal Trump’s rise seems to defy explanation. James Stratton attempts to prove otherwise, armed with the game theorist’s toolbox.
‘The land of free’, ‘the home of the brave’ and a country facing some the highest rates of poverty and inequality of any OECD nation. Harry Murphy Cruise explores how income inequality has influenced the voting behaviour of many Americans
Sam O’Connor observes 2016’s Republican hopefuls in their natural habitat.
If I’ve learnt anything during my two-week visit to the United States it’s that this a country of unparalleled contrasts.
There’s the powerful marriage of individuality and a sense of community, unlike anywhere else on earth.
Last year in the United States, amidst an indifferent recovery, a politically motivated near-default on its vast debt, and the beginnings of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Warren Buffett wrote an op-ed in The New York Times last August highlighting how he paid a lower effective tax rate than his secretary.