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December 13, 2016
Alex Shephard
What are you doing, Kanye?
December 13, 2016
Alex Shephard
Rex Tillerson’s confirmation hearings are going to be all about sending messages to Russia.
December 13, 2016
Graham Vyse
How Democrats Can Bridge Identity Politics and Economic Populism
Some on the left are touting "the Bobby Kennedy coalition" as a model of multicultural working class politics.
December 13, 2016
MagazineEric Bates
Beyond Hope
What did Barack Obama accomplish? And how much of it will survive in the age of Trump? Five historians and political observers weigh in.
December 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
Mitt Romney got played.
December 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
Failed businesswoman impressed by shoe.
December 12, 2016
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump’s new party line: The hacking was done by everyone but the Russians.
December 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump’s response to the allegations of Russian hacking is both dumb and dangerous.
December 12, 2016
Graham Vyse
The Year Nothing Mattered but Donald Trump
Brexit, the Panama Papers, Zika—almost nothing could bump Trump off the front page in 2016.
December 9, 2016
Lovia Gyarkye
It’s almost as if Donald Trump is just a plain old Republican.
December 9, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Is violence against women disqualifying in the age of Trump?
December 9, 2016
Graham Vyse
Trump’s Victory Was Not a Rejection of Liberalism
Conservative columnist Michael Barone declares the "collapse of the political left"—and points to a few magazine covers as evidence.
December 8, 2016
Clio Chang
Trump’s Labor pick proves that he was never about the working class.
December 8, 2016
Graham Vyse
Nigel Farage had an even better 2016 than Donald Trump.
December 8, 2016
Jeet Heer
If Donald Trump keeps being a bully on Twitter, someone’s going to get hurt.
December 8, 2016
Sherrilyn Ifill
How Democrats Must Fight the Confirmation of Jeff Sessions
The Trump administration-in-waiting will try to paint Sessions as a civil rights advocate. Nothing could be further from the truth.
December 7, 2016
Graham Vyse
Joe Biden is the only person enjoying Trump’s transition.
December 7, 2016
Graham Vyse
Know who else was Time’s Person of the Year?
December 7, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump saved Christmas!
December 7, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump has already neutered the deficit hawks in the GOP.

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