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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Listening to What Americans Said on Election Day
They’d been saying it for more than a year—but few bothered to hear them.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters Clinton Nukes Trump's Remaining Chances
The Democratic nominee threw her rival’s own words back at him, to illustrate his unsuitability for the office he seeks.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters Donald Trump's Implosion
At the second presidential debate, the Republican paced and pouted and sighed, but failed to patch together his collapsing campaign.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Hillary Did What She Needed to Do
If undecided voters were looking for an excuse to come around to Clinton’s corner, they may have found it on Monday night.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Clinton Was Wrong to Generalize About Trump's Supporters
Clinton’s remarks played into the perception among GOP and independent voters that Democratic Party leaders are hateful and smug.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters A Farewell Guide to Political Journalism
Lessons gleaned from 30 years of covering American politics—from Bill Clinton to Donald Trump
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters There's Simply No Equivalence
Hillary Clinton has her problems, but Donald Trump is unfit for the presidency.
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Evan Vucci / AP Biting the Hand That Fed Him
The Republican nominee long used the media to project his fairy tale self-image but now blames the industry for his flailing campaign.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Trump's Second Amendment Comment Cannot Be Excused
Regardless of his intentions, the statement proves he’s unfit for the White House.
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters You Can Go Home Again
After two-and-a-half decades in Washington, D.C., a political journalist heads back to Detroit to join in the revival of his native city.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Why Can't Hillary Clinton Stop Lying?
The Democratic presidential nominee came off a successful convention week in Philadelphia and landed right back in hot water with another fabrication.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Hillary Does It Again
In her acceptance speech, the Democratic nominee took on her Republican rival by throwing Donald Trump’s own words back at him.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Obama’s New American Exceptionalism
At the Democratic convention, the president framed America as a shining city on a hill—under constant construction.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Bloomberg's Case Against Trump
The billionaire former New York mayor denounced the Republican nominee as a “dangerous demagogue” and a “risky, reckless, and radical choice.”
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Jim Bourg / Reuters How TV Networks Can Force Trump to Release His Tax Returns
Since tough questioning has failed to hold the candidate accountable, broadcast outlets need to apply pressure where it counts—to Trump’s ego.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Bill Clinton Gets It Right
His convention speech re-introducing his wife to the country was an uneven, but ultimately effective, performance.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters All Hell Breaks Loose at the Democratic Convention
A 30-step review of the mayhem in Philadelphia, and what Clinton’s convention says about the future of the American political system.
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Mary Altaffer / AP Another Clinton Email Scandal
As the Democratic National Convention prepares to kick off, a massive leak of hacked emails renews old questions about how the Clintons and their associates operate.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Art of Deception
Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention speech was full of misleading statements, twisted facts, and false characterizations.
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Mark Kauzlarich / Reuters Translating Trump's Foreign Policy
The Republican nominee's comments to The New York Times are likely to be received very differently by his base than by Washington's elites.
