Tag: Election 2016

How the whiplash-like event of Trump following the nation’s first black president has “compressed time.”

In this oral history of the 2016 election, the media loses the narrative thread it had been creating for decades.

“Stronger Together,” the Clinton-campaign slogan, sounded more like an invitation to join a food co-op than a call to arms.

Duke University law professor Jedediah Purdy, writing in The New Republic, looks at the rise of the left in American politics.

This story in the Washington Post — based on interviews with almost a dozen senior White House officials and and Trump advisors — paints a picture of an uneasy administration trying to stay in orbit around its hyper-sensitive leader and his insider cabal.

On the vice president’s unlikely journey from unpopular, ultra-conservative governor to second-in-command to Donald Trump.

Nikole Hannah-Jones explores the rhetoric of Donald Trumps’s appeals to black voters and calls on the Democratic Party to stop taking Black support for granted.

In the 1980s, a New York magazine writer named Tony Schwartz wrote a critical cover story about Donald Trump’s aggressive business tactics as a real estate developer. Much to his surprise, Trump loved the article—and he recruited Schwartz to ghost write a memoir about his success in business. The result, The Art of the Deal, became […]

Rebecca Traister’s profile of Hillary Clinton, written after unprecedented campaign access, tries to reconcile the stereotypes with the woman.

Hillary, Bernie, Trump, Cruz. Discussing the politics of first and last names used in the 2016 election.