2016 Presidential Election
Coverage of the 2016 presidential election.
They weren’t about “identity politics.”
In some ways, 2016 was a more “normal” election cycle than we’d like to admit.
A poll shows that many fewer GOP voters view Putin unfavorably now.
Seriously.
The meeting came hours after Trump canceled a planned press conference about his business.
Author Wesley Lowery on why the movement will become much broader in the years ahead.
A conversation with Joe Walsh about Trump’s pledge to “drain the swamp” and race’s role in the election.
Around the same time Trump saw his best stretch of coverage.
I once wrote about a possible military coup. Trump’s picks won’t carry one out.
The story of how a truly out-there conspiracy theorist infected the Republican Party.
The retired general could push Trump to take a harder line toward Tehran — and Russia.
Even his biggest Cabinet picks are playing out like a season of The Apprentice.
But it won’t mean much unless 36 other Republican electors join him.
A workhorse not a showhorse, which is great — except winning the election is important.
Trump wanted to make sure “everyone understands what this country’s all about.”
Clinton aides: The Trump campaign gave racism a platform. Trump aides: We won.
He was picked because he raised millions for Trump’s presidential campaign.
WTF just happened?
Betsy DeVos, Elaine Chao, and Tom Price are staunch conservatives.
Some candidates did better than Hillary Clinton, but others did worse than her.
Instant runoff, anyone?
“Whites, for the first time ... have voted for a man in whom they see a reflection of their interests as a group.”
“We’re at this unique moment where the narrative of the religious right is subsiding.” —Rev. Amy Butler
After Trump’s win, the host wants his audience to do more than share clips.
The former Daily Show host offered a measured take on Trump’s win in a new Charlie Rose interview.
She told the audience not to let their disappointment discourage them.
One big concern: What happens to their kids in Donald Trump’s America?
America’s president-elect is an alleged sexual predator. This theory of sexism explains how it came to this — and why even many women voted for Trump.
“They truly believe that multiethnic democracies cannot succeed.” — former Breitbart editor, Ben Shapiro
But he still has time to prove his critics wrong here.
He once bragged about building “the platform for the alt-right.” Now he’s heading to the White House.
President-elect Trump just gave a green light to Israeli settlement building.
“I would rather see it where you went with simple votes,” he said just days ago.
And it makes his advisers even more important.
To deport as many immigrants as he wants to, he’s going to have to scoop up a lot of people who aren’t criminals at all.
Years of cultivating Wall Street and wealthy political donors made Democrats vulnerable to Trump’s anti-establishment message.
The left must not compromise on its ideals, but it needs to get better at witnessing to the unconverted.