The Sanders-Trump Debate Was Never Going to Happen
Having offered to square off against the Vermont senator, the Republican front-runner thought better of it and backed out.
2016 Distilled
The campaign coverage you need from the staff of The Atlantic
The Real Scandal of Hillary Clinton's Emails
It’s not what she wrote—it’s her tendency to wall herself off from alternative points of view.
A Dialogue With a 22-Year-Old Donald Trump Supporter
He lives near San Francisco, makes more than $50,000 per year, and is voting for the billionaire to fight against political correctness.
The Trumpian Divide
The 2016 campaign has revealed an America of stark division and mutual animosity.
A Trumpist Workers' Party Manifesto
Abandoning the low-tax, small-government orthodoxy of the GOP, its nominee says he envisions the Republican Party of the future as a “workers’ party.”
This Is How a Revolution Ends
The Democratic insurgent’s campaign is losing steam—but Bernie’s supporters are not ready to give up.
Can Trump Whitewater-Raft His Way to the White House?
In an ironic twist, the Republican nominee—the author of many a failed real-estate deal—is trying to use the Clintons’ bad 1978 land purchase against Hillary Clinton
An Awkward Reality in the Democratic Primary
Washington voters handed Hillary Clinton a primary win, symbolically reversing the result of the state caucus where Bernie Sanders prevailed.
A Democratic Primary That's 2008 All Over Again?
Bernie Sanders is contesting the Democratic primary to the end, just as Hillary Clinton did eight years ago—but that parallel has its limits.