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Carlos Barria / Reuters How the Rustbelt Paved Trump's Road to Victory
The president-elect won by locking in support from traditional “blue wall” states Hillary Clinton thought were in her corner.
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Rick Rycroft / AP What Went Wrong With the 2016 Polls?
Here’s how public-opinion surveys and election forecasters misread the outcome of the presidential race.
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Carlos Barria / Reuter Does the Democratic Party Have a Future?
The leaderless party is beset by structural disadvantages and policy defeats.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters After Trump, a Call for Political Correctness From the Right
Downplaying the racist views of Trump supporters is an evasion of the facts.
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters First Thoughts on the Election
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Trump's Victory Sends a Disturbing Message About Sexual Assault
A candidate who dismissed boasts of sexual assault as “locker room talk” will now serve as president.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Donald Trump Has Broken the Constitution
The President-Elect is a figure out of authoritarian politics, not the American tradition
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Mike Segar / Reuters Can Republicans Contain Trump?
What happens to the American republic will depend on whether Trump’s fellow partisans empower and enable him.
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Library of Congress The Battle for Pluralism
It’s the best of America, and its future is uncertain.
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Mandel Ngan / Getty The Age of Trump Begins
His victory shocked the world and reordered the American political landscape.
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Mark Makela / Reuters What It Feels Like to Win an Election as the Underdog
The Philadelphia GOP was supposed to be a minority party in a Democratic-leaning swing state. On election night, something else entirely happened.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Democracy Is More Than Just Winning Elections
Liberal democracy is worth fighting for, even in the age of Trump.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters How Trump Won
The Republican nominee put together a coalition of non-college-educated, non-urban voters—and they turned out for him with tremendous enthusiasm.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Listening to What Americans Said on Election Day
They’d been saying it for more than a year—but few bothered to hear them.
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The Boston Globe Donald Trump’s Dystopias
Since the candidate first began climbing in the polls more than a year ago, writers have imagined what his presidency might look like.
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Adam Fenster / Reuters Women May Decide the Election
Cultural and demographic changes throughout the country are making female voters a more powerful force than ever.
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Chris Keane / Reuters What Early Voting in North Carolina Actually Reveals
Some counties succeeded in suppressing voter turnout—but there’s much more to the story.
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Chris Keane / Reuters Hillary Clinton's Final Rock-Star Blitz
Pro-Democrat musicians have moved on from social media and fundraising to do what they do best: entertain.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters A Final Pep Rally for Clinton
The Democratic nominee spoke to a celebratory crowd in Philadelphia—but elsewhere, Americans remain divided.
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Mark Makela / Reuters Has the Balance of Power Shifted From the Rustbelt to the Sunbelt?
This may be remembered as the fast-forward election that compressed years of expected demographic and geographic changes into a single cycle.
