2016 Presidential Election
Coverage of the 2016 presidential election.
Everything you wanted to know about grand juries.
Rolling Stone’s funniest political reporter gets dead serious about Trump.
“This is how it’s done.” —Glenn Carle
David French on Trump, Russian collusion, and the future of the Republican Party.
17 legal experts on what Donald Trump Jr.‘s emails about the Russia meeting prove — and don’t prove.
The Princeton professor on David Brooks, James Baldwin, and his call for a 2016 protest vote.
Putin will bring a specific list of demands. Trump, not so much.
Democracy is rising, but not the good kind.
“There will be rot rather than dramatic change.” —Elizabeth Saunders
Why almost everything you think about democracy is wrong.
7 experts on what we can learn from other populists’ bait and switch.
Isn’t it ironic?
Nine law experts weigh in on Sessions’s claim that he can’t discuss his conversations with the president.
Hugo Drochon’s new book on Nietzsche can teach us about American populism and European disintegration.
“The world is kind of a nightmare right now” —ClickHole editor Matt Powers on the role of satire in the age of Trump.
“It’s the most audacious political heist of modern times”: David Daley on the GOP’s 2010 gerrymandering strategy.
A historian on the danger of Donald Trump.
Why Trump’s presidency has floundered in its first 100 days.
This is not an existential crisis for Western democracy.
“My whole approach to the Trump era is to act as if reality matters.”
“We’re actually witnessing the success of multiculturalism.”
Mayer’s reporting on Trump’s reclusive mega-donor is revealing.
“Dysfunction begets more dysfunction.”
A Harvard political scientist on the three dimensions of populism.
“The reality beneath is much grander and more mysterious than we ever imagined.”
“Big data makes it easy for candidates to dismiss their opponents.”
“To abandon facts is to abandon freedom.” —Timothy Snyder
What changes when there are more women in government? Probably a lot more than you think.
“The first thing he wants and needs is the symbolic legitimization of himself and Russia.”
Whoever wins will become a leading voice of the Democratic Party.
The journalist who wants to troll feminism out of existence.
Former Nixon lawyer John Dean on Trump’s chaotic administration.
“We’re facing the gravest threat to our institutions and our government since 1861.”
“If this is to be the nature of the Republican Party, it’s time for something else.”
How can we make facts matter? Research in psychology and political science offers a little hope.
Researchers have called this idea a “persistent myth.”
Trump has repeated this lie over and over again.
“He’s what a lot of Americans would be if they had a billion dollars.”