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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters President Obama's Approval Rating Is the Highest in Years
A post-election survey has good news for the outgoing commander in chief—and suggests Republicans are optimistic about a GOP takeover of Washington.
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Elise Amendola / AP Should Anti-Trump Evangelicals Leave the Movement?
Members disillusioned by support for the president-elect can more easily effect change if they stay put.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Landslide Donald
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Carlos Barria / Reuters A Cure for Post-Election Malaise
Civic participation offers a way out of the 2016 doldrums.
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Susan Walsh / AP Democrats Plan Fight to Save Obamacare
Progressive groups will launch a coalition aimed at pressuring Republicans bent on repealing the Affordable Care Act.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters More Americans Look to Congressional Democrats Than to Trump for Solutions
A new survey suggests many might prefer a kind of multipolar Washington, with three distinct orbits of power checking each other.
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Claude Paris / AP How Will Donald Trump Handle Europe's Populist Right?
Political parties there are benefiting from the same working-class alienation over demographic and economic change that helped the U.S. president-elect.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Did Jeff Sessions Champion Desegregation?
Trump’s nominee for attorney general claims to have “filed 20 or 30” desegregation cases as U.S. attorney in Alabama, but there’s little evidence to support that.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Are Democrats Wasting Their Time Taking On the Electoral College?
Long-shot efforts to stop Donald Trump or change the election system risk taking up time and energy with little to show at the end.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Could Be in Violation of the Constitution His First Day in Office
Unless he divests himself of his business holdings, the president-elect could violate constitutional rules meant to guard against corruption.
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Library of Congress Jews and the Social Construction of Race
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Evan Vucci / AP Ben Carson, Poverty Fighter?
Trump’s nominee to be the nation’s next housing secretary brings no formal experience in the federal bureaucracy, but his vision for reviving inner cities will likely stem from his own upbringing.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Will the Supreme Court Limit Gerrymandering?
The High Court will hear two cases related to a crucial issue––how states draw their legislative districts.
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Deborah Fallows A Post-Election Field Report From America's Refugees and Immigrants
Words and stories from the towns where the newest Americans live
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters How Muslims Defined American 'Cool'
A conversation with the Purdue University professor Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, whose new book documents the connection between Islam and hip-hop culture in the United States
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William Philpott / Reuters Can Trump’s Defenders Stop Stein's Recounts?
The president-elect’s allies are seeking to stop recounts in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
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Sara D. Davis / Getty Images Kafka in the Bull City
The North Carolina can’t resolve its gubernatorial race until Durham County recounts its votes. But that isn’t as simple a matter as it seems.
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Eric Miller / Reuters Keith Ellison and the Battle for the Democratic Party
The Minnesota progressive’s run for DNC chair demonstrates the pressures for the party as it tries to recover from a disastrous 2016 election.
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Bill Haber / AP Photo Will Democrats Miss Their Last Chance to Win a Senate Seat?
Maybe. But they may never have had much of a chance in the first place.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Why White Evangelicals Are Feeling Hopeful About Trump
They’re worried about poverty, hunger, drug addiction, and the “softness” of the country. And they’ve got high expectations for their president.
