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November 18, 2016

How Donald Trump Courted White Americans to Victory

Blue-collar whites say Trump understands how to get the jobs back. We're about to find out if that's true.

U.S.

The Presidential Election Was A Referendum on Gender and Women Lost

Women voted against Trump by one of the most significant gender gap margins in history, but their support for Clinton was tinged with ambivalence.
U.S.

How Two Russian Defectors Helped the FBI Nab European Mobsters Then Wound up Stranded in Oregon

Former Russian spies Jan and Victorya Neumann helped the FBI fight the Kremlin and its mafia cohorts. Now they're stuck without a country.
U.S.

The Fight to Shut Down Backpage.com, America’s Top Online Brothel

Backpage.com has long been the Amazon Prime of prostitution. Now it could close for good—and some say that's a bad thing.
World

Why The Progress Made by Brazil's Black Activists Might Now Unravel

"It's time Brazil wakes up to its blackness. The current climate will only make things harder."
U.S.

How Donald Trump Surfed Public Anger to the Presidency

Trump has become the champion of Americans fed up with the "connected class."
Tech & Science

How a Low-FODMAP Diet Can Help the Millions Tortured by Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Food giants are hustling to develop palatable products low in short-chain carbohydrates to ease the burden of digestive disorders.
Culture

Doom With a Side Salad: Novelist T.C. Boyle's Cheerful Pessimism

Writer's latest novel, 'The Terranauts,' is the story of a Biosphere-2-like experiment to prepare for the colonization of space.
Tech & Science

California Cave Yields One of the World's Most Unusual Creatures

A newly discovered inch-long millipede has more legs than the chorus line at Radio City Music Hall.
U.S.

Using Uber While Black—New Service, Same Discrimination

New study shows individual drivers may discriminate against patrons with "African-American-sounding" names, making them wait longer than white riders.
Tech & Science

Texas Fines Whooping Crane Killer, Revokes His Gun Rights

There are fewer than 500 whooping cranes left in the wild.
Culture

‘Good Girls Revolt’: The Feminist Legacy of a Newsweek Lawsuit

Nearly five decades ago, 46 female Newsweek staffers sued the magazine for gender discrimination. What has changed since then?