The disruption of commerce, consumption and pretty much everything else is the story of our age. In this issue, we share the results of a poll we conducted with Burson-Marsteller and the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative on attitudes about the gig economy. We explored who is offering services--rides from Uber, food delivery from Postmates, rooms from Airbnb--who is using them and why. This same dynamic--essentially, cut out the middlemen--applies to our politics, which is a theme David Von Drehle explores in his cover story. Donald Trump has defied every convention and conviction about how politics works and has surfed atop the polls for five months. Whatever the outcome in Iowa and beyond, he has already changed the game, and David explores what this means for his party and…
