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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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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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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.
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Mark Makela / Reuters Pennsylvania Is Ready to Stop Being a Full-Time Swing State
The residents of one county evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans look forward to the day when they are not being bombarded with political appeals.
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Robert Dawson How I'd Vote, If I Lived In ...
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Gary Cameron / Reuters On the Eve of an Abnormal Election, the High Court Strives for Normalcy
Defying the tenor of the 2016 election, during a case over the president’s power to appoint temporary heads of agencies, the Supreme Court tries to function as it should.
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Heidi Legg The 104-Year-Old Daughter of a Suffragist Watches the Election
The 19th Amendment passed when Marian Cannon Schlesinger was eight—and she’s lived to see a woman nominated for the presidency.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Why I Insist on Voting for Hillary Clinton
A civic duty to stop Donald Trump requires that I support a candidate I could’ve never imagined backing.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters How James Comey Hurt the FBI—and the Democratic Process
The FBI director’s decision to disclose an inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s emails that led nowhere may have irrevocably altered the results of the 2016 balloting.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters ‘A Disturbing Series of Events’: The Comey Aftermath
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters All Eyes Are on Pennsylvania
Politicians are descending on the Keystone State, which will help determine which party wins the Senate—and the White House.
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters The Four Groups That Will Decide the Presidential Race
The outcome of the election hinges on how pronounced a handful of demographic trends turn out to be.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters How Much Jewish Support Will Trump Cost the Republican Party?
The presidential nominee’s campaign has brought anti-Semitism into the mainstream in ways not recently seen—and his party may pay the price for years to come.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Hillary Clinton Disciples Getting Out the Vote
She’s not only a potential first woman president, but one who looks, thinks, lives, and talks kind of like them.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Future of Mr. Comey
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Zak Bickel / The Atlantic From Whitewater to Benghazi: A Clinton-Scandal Primer
In a letter on Sunday, FBI Director James Comey wrote that newly discovered emails do not change the FBI’s prior conclusion that Hillary Clinton should not be charged with a crime.
