2016 Presidential Election
Coverage of the 2016 presidential election.
A Stanford researcher talks about his study on the role of false stories in the 2016 election.
As a member of Congress, Pence sponsored the first bill to defund Planned Parenthood in 2007 — and did so repeatedly through 2011, when it finally passed the House.
Donald Trump has tapped Indiana Gov. Michael Pence as his running mate. Here’s what we know.
Professor Eddie Glaude Jr. on Trump’s victory and the future of race and politics in America.
This doesn’t seem very practical.
Donald Trump, explained by a man who’s spent hours talking to him.
This could’ve been Hillary Clinton’s legacy.
She confronted some of the same stereotypes leveled against the early suffragists — and still won the popular vote
“Today is supposed to be a celebration, but instead it’s just ... crushing.”
It was a striking statement on the eve of the Women’s March on Washington.
He’s replaced heirloom tomatoes with McDonald’s.
He’s more consistent than you think
Trump has been surprisingly consistent throughout the years, and it is apparent that he divides people into winners and losers and that the world is a zero-sum game.
For a new American president, there’s no formula to follow when writing an inaugural address.
The latest is a former Miss Finland.
Boycotts, strikes, demonstrations, and public readings are all planned to voice dissent. Is it worth it even when the audience is small?
One reason to be skeptical: the way it’s written.
“They were serving themselves and their own clicks.” –Kelly McBride, vice president of Poynter
Trump will have massive executive power when he takes office. Thanks, Obama.
Our popular and political cultures kept returning to the idea that the past was somehow better.
Despite all appearances, 2016 did not spell the end of progress for women.
“I don’t see how this ends well. I don’t see how it gets better.” — John Ziegler
It really is up to them.
Netanyahu’s fight with the US is a result of the rightward shift in Israeli politics.
“We are not a people to whom and nation to which limits don’t apply.” —Andrew Bacevich
“If I were your president, I’d have the guts to lie right to your face. And you’d love it.”
Either way, it’s really scary.
“They’re consumed by nostalgia.” — Justin Gest, author of The New Minority
Sen. Gary Peters believes Michigan should no longer be seen “as a reliably blue state.”
Don’t ask Americans under threat to put their fears aside in the name of unity.
Republicans like Putin more than Obama. That means they’re not as angry as they should be.
The liberal effort to encourage electors to defect only further degraded American political norms.
More electors ended up defecting from Hillary Clinton than from Trump.
It’s doomed. But here’s an explainer on it anyway.
The president made the comments at his year-end press conference.
This Columbia professor criticized the Clinton campaign for being fixated on diversity — and the critics pounced.