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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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Carlos Barria / Reuters Hillary Clinton's March to Victory
The presidential campaign has unfolded in ways she never could have imagined. It is ending in a morass of ugliness. What could possibly come next?
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Mike Segar / Reuters Trump's Graying Army
In the Republican nominee’s nostalgia-fueled campaign, older voters see their last chance to bring back the 1950s. But he could be starting to lose them, too.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters In Ferguson, the Seeds of Trump's Defeat
Trump may have risen on the wings of white backlash. But black Americans' fierce resistance to a candidate they see as racist could spell his defeat.
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Mike Segar / Retuers Trump Goes to War
As the campaign descends into chaos, the Republican nominee lashes out in all directions, consequences be damned.
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John Cuneo Saving Conservatism From Trump's GOP
Avik Roy—a former adviser to Marco Rubio, Rick Perry, and Mitt Romney—wants to rescue conservatism from Trump’s divisive tribalism. But can he persuade his party to join him?
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Jae C. Hong / Associated Press What Kind of Man Is Donald Trump?
In its final weeks, the contest between the first woman nominee and the Republican’s cartoonish machismo has fittingly devolved into a battle of the sexes.
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Andy Sullivan / Reuters For Young Voters, 'Hope and Change' Is Dead
A group of 20-something voters illustrates young people’s consternation with their political choices this year.
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Steven Senne / AP Breakfast With Bill Weld
The Libertarian vice-presidential nominee wants to offer an alternative—but he doesn’t think Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are equally terrible.
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Ross D. Franklin / AP Is This the Year Arizona Turns Blue?
Between disaffected Republicans and energized Latinos, all of 2016’s cross-currents have conspired to make this formerly red state one of the cycle’s most contested targets.
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Arina P. Habich / Shutterstock The State That Fell Off the Electoral Map
Colorado was supposed to be a presidential battleground, but that now seems far-fetched. Democrats’ success in places like this could spell trouble for the Republican Party long past 2016.
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Eddie Guy ‘There’s Nothing Better Than a Scared, Rich Candidate’
How political consulting works—or doesn’t
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Danny Moloshok / Reuters Taco Trucks and the Soul of America
Is there a constituency in the U.S. for a campaign built around ardent opposition to multiculturalism?
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Vlue / Shutterstock / Joe Raedle / Getty ... Donald Trump and the Politics of Fear
Trump’s candidacy relies on the power of fear. It could be the only way for him to win.
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Beck Deifenbach / Reuters The Republican Party in Exile
The world of GOP intellectuals and policymakers has been upended by Donald Trump. What is there to do but carry on?
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Scott Applewhite / AP Maybe Trumpism Doesn't Work Without Trump
An insurgent candidate inspired by the Republican nominee fails to lay a finger on House Speaker Paul Ryan in Wisconsin.
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John Hanna / AP How Farmers and Big Business Took Out a Tea Party Congressman
Representative Tim Huelskamp’s loss shows that the business lobby is successfully fighting back against GOP conservatives.
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The Democrats’ Message of Calm
The Atlantic’s Molly Ball explores Hillary Clinton’s image of composure in the midst of a troubled country.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters A Message of Calm in an Agitated Time
Can Hillary Clinton’s projection of steadiness resonate with an unsettled country?
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Long Fall of Debbie Wasserman Schultz
The Democratic chairwoman had few supporters—but clung to her post for years, abetted by the indifference of the White House.
