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Rick Wilking / Reuters Chambers of Pain
Democrats got walloped at the very top of the ticket, but what’s happening at the very bottom of the ballot could hurt them for years to come.
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Reuters / Jonathan Ernst The Iconic Hillary Clinton
In defeat, the politician may find a status that had eluded her in victory—as a symbol for other women who see themselves in her struggles.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Women Aren't Responsible for Hillary Clinton’s Defeat
The media has created a misleading narrative in a rush to assign blame for the outcome of the election.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The U.S. Media Is Completely Unprepared to Cover a Trump Presidency
Donald Trump and his surrogates have shown an uncanny ability to lie in the face of objective facts. They will now have the power of the federal government to help them.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters No, Electors in States Trump Won Should Not Vote for Clinton
The electoral college is a terrible device. But it is the rule each candidate ran on.
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Joe Skipper / Reuters What Happened to Hillary Clinton's Support Among Latinos?
The electorate seemed poised to help her secure a victory, and yet her support trailed behind Barack Obama’s numbers in 2012.
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Noah Berger / Reuters The Jewish Struggle to Understand Trump's Election
Synagogues hosted prayer and healing services on Wednesday for congregants grappling with the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Is This the Second Redemption?
The accomplishments of the first black president will be erased by a man who rose to power on the slander that Barack Obama was not born in America.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Evangelical Reckoning Over Donald Trump
White, conservative Christians voted for the Republican candidate by a huge margin, but this election revealed deep fractures among leaders and churches—especially along racial lines.
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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.
