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Alex Brandon / AP The Republican Congress Is Filling Trump's Cabinet
In the battle for power in Washington, GOP leaders on Capitol Hill are scoring early victories with key appointments.
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Christopher Aluka Berry / Reuters Donald Trump and the Legacy of Andrew Jackson
There’s no shortage of parallels between the two populists—but there’s at least one crucial difference.
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Bassam Khabieh / Reuters How to Deal With 2016 Despair
Exposure to suffering through media can wear us down, but we shouldn’t give in to despair.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Has Trump's Election Breached His D.C. Hotel Lease?
A legal analysis of a provision in the contract that may pose problems for the president-elect
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National Archives and Records Administration via Densho Digital … What Makes Today’s America Different From the Country That Incarcerated the Japanese?
A conversation with a historian about the slow creep of discrimination, from the U.S. government to church groups
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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters Will the Department of Defense Invest in People or Technology?
The Trump administration will determine the future of the Third Offset, a plan for ensuring the long-term competitive advantage of the U.S. armed forces.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Lasting Damage From Trump's False 'Voter Fraud' Allegations
The president-elect is sowing doubt about the integrity of America’s elections, and may hope to reap a harvest of discriminatory voting laws.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Trump Excuses the White Working Class From the Politics of Personal Responsibility
The Republican Party long insisted that the troubles of the inner city were cultural—but rather than apply the same logic to struggling blue-collar communities, Trump blamed their problems on external forces.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Electoral College Wasn't Meant to Overturn Elections
Electors were intended to be faceless hacks whose independent exercise of judgment was neither wanted nor permitted.
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Win McNamee / Getty Images Will Hillary Clinton's Defeat Set Back Women in Politics?
Her high-profile loss could discourage women from running for office—but it might also motivate them to become more politically engaged.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Republicans Get Ready to Welcome Back Earmarks
GOP lawmakers want to wrest back the power of the purse, but the pull of pork is colliding with Donald Trump’s call to “drain the swamp.”
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Donald Trump's Fragile Hold on America
In a future campaign, the president-elect would need to keep his supporters faithful, while not further alienating groups who opposed him this year.
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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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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.
