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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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Mike Segar / Reuters Why Won't More Republicans Privately Voting for Clinton Say So in Public?
By hiding their support for Clinton out of fear, some of America’s most prominent GOPers are making a Trump win more likely.
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Reuters Trump's Worst Answer Will Also Be His Downfall
Trump’s refusal to say he would accept the election results will ensure negative coverage for the final three weeks of the election, and with good reason.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Trump's Indifference to the Constitution
The Republican nominee has advertised his disregard for the constitutional limitations on the president's authority.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Mike Pence Embraces the Foreign Policy That Republican Voters Rejected
By sidestepping Trump’s messages on foreign policy and trade in Tuesday’s debate, the vice-presidential nominee ignored the choices GOP voters made in their primaries.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Trump's Abdication of Personal Responsibility
Conservatives have put families and communities at the center of their conception of a better America—but they’re notably absent from the Republican nominee’s account.
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Henry Romero / Reuters Why Style Matters as Much as Substance
Journalists need to perform “theater criticism” of debates as well as grade policy proposals; the trick is keeping them separate.
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Lynne Sladky / AP Donald Trump Is No Jack Kennedy
A former speechwriter for the president says he’s voting for Trump, but he doesn’t seem very familiar with what the Republican candidate actually believes.
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Chris Keane / Reuters The Death of 'He Said, She Said' Journalism
The New York Times responds to a candidate who breaks all the rules by discarding some of its own.
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Edmon de Haro; Alex Wong / Getty Fear of a Female President
Hillary Clinton’s candidacy has provoked a wave of misogyny—one that may roil American life for years to come.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Hillary Fails to Offer a Foreign-Policy Vision
At a candidate’s forum on Wednesday night, the Democratic nominee served up loads of specifics—but no positive story to weave them together.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Cowardice of Donald Trump
He’s built his reputation on straight talk—but when the Republican candidate sits down with the groups he vilifies, he exhibits a striking change.
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Billy Hurst / AP How Colin Kaepernick's Protest Misfired
The football player lost a unique opportunity to help the country understand the nature of police violence.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Trump's Immigration Policy Trap
In the primaries, he avoided policy debates by promising to build a wall—but the general election is forcing him into specifics.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters How Trump Betrayed Ann Coulter on Immigration
The political commentator may be more committed to the Republican nominee’s platform than he is.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters How Democrats Become the Conservative Party
In the era of Trump, Clinton and co. want to preserve the status quo, while their Republican opponents want radical change.
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Evan Vucci / AP 'Trumpism' and the Rift Between Belief and Truth
To some conservatives, “real Americans” and “ordinary folks” are getting a raw deal. But just because it seems that way doesn’t make it so.
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Edmon de Haro Why Are Some Conservative Thinkers Falling for Trump?
A few themes emerge among intellectuals on the right about what attracts them to the candidate: his campaign’s energy, his impassioned following, and his eagerness to call out the establishment.
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Paul Sancya / AP It Shouldn't Have Taken a Khizr Khan
Genuine religious freedom requires accepting Muslims even without their wartime heroism.
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Scott Audette / Reuters Hillary's Message to America
The Democrat promised voters she’d do her job intelligently and doggedly—and help them be the heroes of their own lives.
