Why we should be terrified of Donald Trump’s decision-making process

Paul Waldman

Election surprises and exchange rates

The FRED Blog

Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy ending..." [audio]

The Ezra Klein Show

This Time, Obama's Calm in a Crisis Isn't Helping

Michelle Goldberg

The Only Enemies Donald Trump Can See Are His Fellow Americans

William Saletan

The GOP coup in North Carolina previews what we’re going to see everywhere

Paul Waldman

Why David Brock’s plan to create a “Breitbart of the left” is destined to fail

Nicole Hemmer

Larry Kudlow is usually wrong

Jared Bernstein

North Carolina’s GOP Is Closing Ranks

Jamelle Bouie

Cities Are Cutting Public Transportation Because They Think Uber Will Fill the Gap. They’ll Regret It.

Henry Grabar

Price growth at the tails

The FRED Blog

When to Send an Investing Model Into Retirement

Noah Smith

Thomas Schelling, Methodological Subversive

Rajiv Sethi

What’s Good for Exxon Is Bad for the Country

Does Rex Tillerson know the difference between corporate imperatives and national interests?

Fred Kaplan

A woman who called Michelle Obama an ape has her job back. This is part of a pattern.

Jenée Desmond-Harris

Trump’s Ungovernment

Jamelle Bouie

Russia Didn’t Hack the U.S. Election

It hacked the voters.

Theodore R. Johnson

The real reason Trump's denial that Russia hacked Democrats’ emails is so worrying

Andrew Prokop

The GOP’s Russia Hawks Are Not Your Friends, Democrats

Jim Newell

How the U.S. Could Respond to Russia’s Hacking

Fred Kaplan

When Daily Intelligence Briefings Prevented a Nuclear War

Josh Zeitz

Reince Priebus Is Either Lying or Delusional

Josephine Wolff

How Trump Is Repeating the Mistakes of Iraq

William Saletan

How Will Trump React to the CIA’s Claim That Russia Was Trying to Help Him Win?

By lying about the CIA and his margin of victory, for starters.

Fred Kaplan

Let’s relocate a bunch of government agencies to the Midwest

Matthew Yglesias

A Better Theory to Explain Financial Bubbles

Noah Smith

Farewell Harry Reid, the Least Fashionable Man in Politics

Jim Newell

A key Trump donor could make a ton of money from Trump's housing policy

Timothy B. Lee

What Trump Didn't Learn From the Financial Crisis

Noah Smith

Poor Gretchen on Fannie and Freddie

Bill McBride

An econ theory, falsified

Noah Smith

Mad Dog or Warrior Monk? Trump’s Pick for Secretary of Defense Doesn’t Fit Any Stereotypes.

Fred Kaplan

Everything mattered: lessons from 2016's bizarre presidential election

David Roberts

Just How Badly Can the Trump Administration Corrupt the United States?

Ray Fisman & Miriam Golden

Republicans allowed voter paranoia to flourish. They got a president-elect who embraces it.

Dara Lind

How the electoral college gerrymanders the presidential vote

Christopher Ingraham

An American “Redemption”? Trumpism fits a pattern of backlash against social progress

Bradley Proctor

Fidel Castro, Master Madman

Michael Dobbs

Donald Trump is now questioning the legitimacy of the election he won

Ezra Klein

Apple may have finally gotten too big for its unusual corporate structure

Matthew Yglesias

Donald Trump and the Rise of Alt-Reality Media

You think the truth took a hit last year? It's about to get worse. A lot worse.

Charles Sykes

The Real Legacy in Jeopardy Under the New Congress? LBJ’s.

Josh Zeitz

The Axe Files with David Axelrod: 98 - Larry Summers

David Axelrod

Democrats won the most votes in the election. They should act like it.

Ezra Klein