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America's Educational Divide Put Trump in the White House
Even controlling for race and income, the concentration of college degrees was the strongest indicator of whether a county would back the Republican.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Clinton's Popular-Vote Lead Now Exceeds 1.5 Million—and It's Growing
Millions of mail-in and absentee ballots haven’t been counted yet. They won’t change anything, though.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters U.S. Media’s Real Elitism Problem
Donald Trump's victory caught mainstream news outlets off guard. Were reporters too insulated to see his growing support?
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ProSymbols / The Noun Project / Andrew McGill The Inevitability of Being Hacked
We built a fake web toaster, and it was compromised in an hour.
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Jim Christie / Reuters The Clinton Polling Conspiracy That Doesn't Exist
Trump supporters are convinced Democrats are using “oversampling” to stuff the polls in Hillary Clinton’s favor. But they’re just wrong about statistics.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Why Republicans Are Flip-Flopping on Their Endorsements
A game-theory expert explains the strategy lawmakers appear to be employing in walking back their support—and then backing Donald Trump yet again.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Wikileaks Appears to Have Snippets of Clinton's Paid Speeches
To date, the former secretary of state has refused to release transcripts of paid speeches she made to banks and other businesses. Wikileaks might have just done that for her.
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Is Anything That Trump Says About African American Communities True?
Fact checking the candidate's presumptuous statements about the lives of black Americans
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Andrew McGill / The Atlantic What Trump Tweets While America Sleeps
The Atlantic analyzed the frequency and content of Trump’s late-night tweets, and found that the Republican presidential nominee indulges in late-night tweeting after moments of stress or triumph.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Many of Trump’s Supporters Never Left Their Hometowns
The Republican candidate is far more popular than Hillary Clinton among people who still live where they grew up.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Presidential Debate Boosts Clinton's Numbers as Trump Trails
A post-debate bounce materializes for Hillary Clinton in the latest survey from the Public Religion Research Institute, but Trump remains competitive.
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John Locher / AP Winning a Bet on Birtherism, Then Losing It
Online gamblers correctly predicted that Lester Holt would bring up Donald Trump’s “birther” record. So why aren’t they getting any money?
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Andrew McGill / The Atlantic The Different Ways Fox, MSNBC, and CNN Recapped Monday's Debate
They were given the same 120 minutes. But each network presented them its own way.
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Jon Elswick / AP Where Did All the Campaign Spending Go?
The amount spent on the 2016 election is almost impossible to comprehend. But it pales in comparison to 2012.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Four Ways Trump Is Wrong About Black Americans
Trump’s view of black communities: “You get shot walking down the street.” Reality: No.
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Andrew McGill / The Atlantic The Trump Bloc
Donald Trump has won over many working-class white voters. But does he have anyone else?
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Stephanie Keith / Reuters Americans Are More Worried About Terrorism Than They Were After 9/11
Fears about terrorism have risen considerably in the U.S., but that has a lot to do with which party is in the White House.
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#MakeEveryWeek 4: A Button That Orders Your Favorite Salad
There’s a whole literary subgenre devoted to inventions that ultimately destroy their inventors. Frankenstein didn’t turn out so well for…
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Elaine Thompson / AP Americans Are Embracing Transgender Rights
Three-quarters of Americans want to give trans people special protections under federal law.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters Would Electing More Women Fix Congress?
A new study examines how female legislators embrace compromise—and men don’t.
