These Professors Make More Than a Thousand Bucks an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers

Jesse Eisinger and Justin Elliott

Infrastructure Build or Privatization Scam?

Paul Krugman

The Bitter Feud Behind the Law That Could Keep Jared Kushner Out of the White House

Josh Zeitz

Obama reckons with a Trump presidency

Inside a stunned White House, the President considers his legacy and America’s future.

David Remnick

Empathy isn’t a favor I owe white Trump voters. It has to go both ways.

Baratunde Thurston

Winning an election does not entitle one to upend basic values

Larry Summers

Welcome to the Paul Ryan Presidency

Jim Newell

Make America Great Again: how progressives can reach rural America — and how they can’t

Todd VanDerWerff

Republicans Stole the Supreme Court

Dahlia Lithwick

Trump Country

Henry Grabar

White Won

Jamelle Bouie

America, There Is a Better Way to Vote

Seth Stevenson

An Election Season Reminder That Voting Is Mathematically Flawed

There is no fair way of assessing a populations’ preferences when there are more than two candidates.

Evelyn Lamb

The verdict for those armed militants who took over a federal building is white privilege in action

German Lopez

David Brooks says conservatism has failed, but he misses the biggest reason: race

Zack Beauchamp

‘We Are in for a Pretty Long Civil War’

"He has been making arguments that he can't possibly believe, on behalf of the man he can't possibly believe in." To them, Pence made a pact with the devil, and says Wehner, "There should be consequences for that."

Julia Ioffe

Republicans are already treating Clinton’s presidency as illegitimate

Paul Waldman

Voting by mail is fair, safe, and easy. Why don’t more states use it?

David Roberts

The Curse Breaker

Steven Goldman

Vulnerability Is the Internet’s Original Sin

Fred Kaplan

Republicans told their voters that politics is inherently evil. That stuck them with Trump.

Republicans set the stage for Trump not only by stoking Tea Party anger, but by convincing their constituents that the very idea of politics is repugnant, and only someone untainted by it could lead their party. And then they're amazed when the political neophyte they nominated turns out to have no idea what he's doing.

Paul Waldman

The Chris Wallace debate question that set off a firestorm

Ana Swanson

What we can learn from one of the biggest mysteries — and misunderstandings — of the American Revolution

Jeff Guo

An Econ Test Question We Shouldn't Get Wrong

Noah Smith

Libertarianism's Time Has Come and Gone

Noah Smith

Ricardian Equivalence, benchmark models, and academics response to the financial crisis

Simon Wren-Lewis

Neutron Sunday

Donald Fagen

Note to Donald Trump: This is why you can’t run government like a business

Andrew Rudalevige

America's founders screwed up when they designed the presidency. Donald Trump is exhibit A.

Sanford V. Levinson

Trump’s rigged election talk is reaping what Republican leaders have sowed

Matthew Yglesias

Is WikiLeaks Just a Stooge of the Kremlin?

Fred Kaplan

Donald Trump vs. America

Jamelle Bouie

When Donald Trump says he may not concede, imagine what his voters are hearing

Dara Lind

Trump should read George H.W. Bush’s gracious letter conceding the Oval Office to Bill Clinton

German Lopez

A short history of white people rigging elections

Dara Lind

I’m a Republican election lawyer. Here's why the election can’t be rigged.

Chris Ashly

Term limits are a bad idea

It's a nice fantasy that what Washington needs is a bunch of good old-fashioned common sense — common sense that can only come from people who aren't "career politicians." But the machinery of government is now incredibly complex. And the more we cling to the fantasy of electing uncorrupted political neophytes as saviors, the more we empower the lobbyists and bureaucrats who can accumulate a lifetime of experience and knowledge.

Lee Drutman

There Is a Conspiracy to Rig the Election, and Donald Trump Is Part of It

Forget the lurid fiction about voter fraud. Trump and the GOP are openly attacking the legitimacy of black voting.

Jamelle Bouie

Trump didn’t create the “rigged election” rhetoric. Republicans did.

German Lopez

Donald Trump’s unpatriotic campaign

Ezra Klein

Russia has weaponized the American press

Zack Beauchamp

Donald Trump shows the opposite of “political correctness” isn’t free speech. It’s just different repression.

There was always, after all, something inherently weird about a man who requires non-disclosure agreements from every single campaign volunteer crusading as a defender of open and honest discourse.

Dara Lind

How Does Obama Respond to Russia’s Cyberattacks?

Fred Kaplan

9/11 improved presidential transitions

Richard M. Skinner