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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters Washington's Spy Paranoia
Who did the Russian ambassador meet in D.C.? Welcome to America’s capital city, where everyday encounters may not be what they seem.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump's First Month: An Evaluation
Is the brash new president bending Washington to his will—or being tamed by the status quo?
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Is the Anti-Trump Resistance Another Tea Party?
The two movements are strikingly similar.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Is the Anti-Trump 'Resistance' the New Tea Party?
Eight years ago, a new president took office who scared the living daylights out of thousands of people who’d never been politically active before. Sound familiar?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Welcome to the Trump Presidency
He’s moved to establish his dominance of his party, of Congress, and of the media. Now, he turns to the nation.
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Jim Young / Reuters Trump's Last Vacant Cabinet Post
The president-elect has yet to name a secretary of agriculture, a delay that has caused controversy and illustrated the difficulties governing will pose.
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William Philpott / Reuters President Trump’s Perpetual Campaign
The election is over, but the president-elect is demonstrating he hopes to dominate Washington the same way he dominated his campaign rivals: by taking the case to his loyal movement of supporters.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Why Hillary Clinton Lost
As devastated Democrats cast about for explanations, her campaign’s decisions have come under scrutiny.
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Mandel Ngan / Getty The Age of Trump Begins
His victory shocked the world and reordered the American political landscape.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Hillary Clinton's March to Victory
The presidential campaign has unfolded in ways she never could have imagined. It is ending in a morass of ugliness. What could possibly come next?
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Mike Segar / Reuters Trump's Graying Army
In the Republican nominee’s nostalgia-fueled campaign, older voters see their last chance to bring back the 1950s. But he could be starting to lose them, too.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters In Ferguson, the Seeds of Trump's Defeat
Trump may have risen on the wings of white backlash. But black Americans' fierce resistance to a candidate they see as racist could spell his defeat.
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Mike Segar / Retuers Trump Goes to War
As the campaign descends into chaos, the Republican nominee lashes out in all directions, consequences be damned.
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John Cuneo Saving Conservatism From Trump's GOP
Avik Roy—a former adviser to Marco Rubio, Rick Perry, and Mitt Romney—wants to rescue conservatism from Trump’s divisive tribalism. But can he persuade his party to join him?
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Jae C. Hong / Associated Press What Kind of Man Is Donald Trump?
In its final weeks, the contest between the first woman nominee and the Republican’s cartoonish machismo has fittingly devolved into a battle of the sexes.
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Andy Sullivan / Reuters For Young Voters, 'Hope and Change' Is Dead
A group of 20-something voters illustrates young people’s consternation with their political choices this year.
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Steven Senne / AP Breakfast With Bill Weld
The Libertarian vice-presidential nominee wants to offer an alternative—but he doesn’t think Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are equally terrible.
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Ross D. Franklin / AP Is This the Year Arizona Turns Blue?
Between disaffected Republicans and energized Latinos, all of 2016’s cross-currents have conspired to make this formerly red state one of the cycle’s most contested targets.
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Arina P. Habich / Shutterstock The State That Fell Off the Electoral Map
Colorado was supposed to be a presidential battleground, but that now seems far-fetched. Democrats’ success in places like this could spell trouble for the Republican Party long past 2016.
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Eddie Guy ‘There’s Nothing Better Than a Scared, Rich Candidate’
How political consulting works—or doesn’t
