block quote View in link Browser Add link email protected to your address book. heading level 4 Friday, October 2, 2015 link graphic The New York Times heading level 4 link NY Times dot com slash Magazine link Get all digital access to The Times for just 99 cents. link click upn equals ei 6R 0f M 2Bt Fk Gmg 2Fv… Donald Trump doesn't worry about anything not even the consequences of his loud, brash and often pugnacious presidential campaign. Even if he loses, he believes, he'll still be Donald Trump ... only bigger. Our cover story this week is Mark Leibovich's link profile of the unyielding force that is Trump: reality star, real estate mogul and Republican presidential candidate. Surprising nearly everyone but himself, Trump has flourished in early polls, growing into a kind of one man chaos theory at the center of a primary campaign in disarray, Leibovich writes. But Trump is also a brand and a stronger brand, he argues, is exactly what America needs right now. But is there anything substantial at the core? And does it matter? Elsewhere in the issue, Jennifer Percy reports on the link American vigilantes who volunteer to fight link ISIS in Syria often without knowing what they're getting into. Clay Lawton, a 26 year old Rhode Islander, tells Percy he first learned about ISIS on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. Soon after, Lawton looked up how to fight ISIS on his lunch break. In February, he flew to Iraq and crossed into Syria, where he was handed an M 16. But the hero status these fighters envisioned never appears, and the efforts against ISIS they take part in are largely purposeless and unorganized. What do they do now? Sam Anderson interviews link Ellen Page , who refused to follow the typical Hollywood script after the runway success of Juno in 2007 and, in years since, has come out of the closet and become an outspoken advocate for L dot G dot B dot T dot Q. rights. 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Trump heading level 6 Damon Winter slash The New York Times heading level 6 FEATURE link Donald Trump Is Not Going Anywhere heading level 6 By MARK LEIBOVICH Where does his political adventure end? I have no idea. But I'm here now. And it's beautiful. 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She had other plans. table with 2 rows and 1 columns row 1 column 1 heading level 6 LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION link graphic Aesop may or may not have existed, but the stories attributed to him put wisdom about life's moral link graphic quandaries in a kid friendly frame. Usually. heading level 6 William Mebane for The New York Times link Letter of Recommendation: Aesop's Fables heading level 6 By VINSON CUNNINGHAM Read in an era of loudly shouted certainties, the stories are a refreshing reminder that sometimes morality should be a low key, case by case matter. row 2 link click upn equals ei 6R 0f M 2Bt Fk Gmg 2Fv… heading level 6 Illustration by Kyle Hilton link Judge John Hodgman on a Christmas Wish heading level 6 By JOHN HODGMAN Court is back in session! 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