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Andrew Harnik / AP Can Nancy Pelosi Survive the Trump Aftershock?
With the party in shambles, a little-known Ohio congressman is trying to unseat the longest-serving Democratic leader in Washington.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Hillary Clinton's Lead Is Greater Than Multiple Former Presidents'
It’s a reminder to her supporters that more Americans voted the way they did than voted for her opponent.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Should Hillary Clinton Call for a Recount?
There’s a case to be made for routine election audits—but not for spreading unsubstantiated claims or speculation about the outcome of an election.
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Chris Keane / Reuters What's Really Going On in North Carolina's Gubernatorial Race?
Recounts, lawsuits, challenges—and the prospect of a legislative coup? Here’s why the race between Governor Pat McCrory and Democrat Roy Cooper isn’t over yet.
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Mike Segar / Reuters 'An Erosion of Democratic Norms in America'
The president-elect is testing the limits of political convention.
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Mike Segar / Reuters If Jeff Sessions Opposed Lurleen Wallace, Who Did He Support?
Republicans have said that Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee began his career fighting against a segregationist in Alabama. The truth is more complicated.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Hate Him or Love Him, Trump Is What the Democratic Process Produced
The president-elect’s victory wasn’t a product of the usual electoral dysfunction so much as an end-run around it.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Meet the 'Hamilton Electors' Hoping for an Electoral College Revolt
The presidential election officially ends in December once the members vote. Two want to convince their colleagues to withhold the White House from Donald Trump.
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Daniel Lombroso / The Atlantic 'Hail Trump!': White Nationalists Salute the President-Elect
Video of an alt-right conference in Washington, D.C., where Trump’s victory was met with cheers and Nazi salutes.
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Wikimedia How the Vote Broke, in Historical Perspective
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Feedback Loop of Doom for Democratic Norms
President Obama said he might break tradition and criticize his successor on “core questions” about ideals and values—in essence, promising to break one standard to try to save others.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Electoral College Was Meant to Stop Men Like Trump From Being President
The founders envisioned electors as people who could prevent an irresponsible demagogue from taking office.
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Mike Segar / Reuters On the Future of the Time Capsules
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Clinton's Popular-Vote Lead Now Exceeds 1.5 Million—and It's Growing
Millions of mail-in and absentee ballots haven’t been counted yet. They won’t change anything, though.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters At Orientation Week, Legislators Learn the Ropes
Wide-eyed freshmen members of Congress swept into Washington this week to learn more about their new homes.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Donald Trump’s Pick for Attorney General
The president-elect has tapped Senator Jeff Sessions for the role.
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Frederick M. Brown / Getty What Gwen Ifill Knew About Race in America
“If I weren’t a better person … I swear, I would worry about our lovely nation,” she once told me.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Will Trump Be Ready to Govern?
The early days of his transition have looked like chaos, but veterans of the process say the president-elect has time to catch up.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters What Bernie Sanders Wants From Donald Trump
The Vermont senator has outlined an agenda where Democrats might find common ground with the next president.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Trump Scores His First Win in Congress
The president-elect wants an immediate say in how money is spent once he takes office, and Republicans are granting his wish.
