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2016 Presidential Election

Coverage of the 2016 presidential election.

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A Trump judge’s new decision would undo more than 50 years of voting rights law

Trump Judge Lee Rudofsky’s decision could completely neutralize the Voting Rights Act when the GOP controls the White House.

By Ian Millhiser

President Trump is considering pardoning himself. I asked 15 experts if that's legal.

Is a self-pardon constitutional? The answer is strangely murky.

By Sean Illing

Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2020

By German Lopez

New Hampshire shouldn’t be the first primary

By Dylan Matthews

Journalist Carole Cadwalladr has a question for tech workers: Are you okay with your bosses enabling “techno-fascism”?

By Eric Johnson

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Does the Mueller report exonerate Trump? I asked 12 legal experts.

By Sean Illing

Senate Democrats introduce a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College

By Li Zhou

Did the media botch the Russia story? A conversation with Matt Taibbi.

By Sean Illing

Preet Bharara on why Mueller punted on the obstruction question

By Sean Illing

A former prosecutor explains why Barr’s hasty obstruction conclusion should raise red flags

By Sean Illing

Does AG Barr’s summary of the Mueller report “exonerate” Trump? I asked 15 legal experts.

By Sean Illing

How the US could actually get rid of the Electoral College

By Li Zhou and Andrew Prokop

Can the 25th Amendment be invoked to remove Trump from office? I asked one of its authors.

By Sean Illing

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Richard Rorty’s prescient warnings for the American left

By Sean Illing

A 1951 book about totalitarianism is flying off the shelves. Here's why.

By Sean Illing

If you want to understand the age of Trump, read the Frankfurt School

By Sean Illing

How Republicans turned voter suppression into a high art

By Sean Illing

Does the BuzzFeed report show that Trump obstructed justice? I asked 9 legal experts.

By Sean Illing

Trump’s ties to the Russian mafia go back 3 decades

By Sean Illing

“The fish rots from the head”: a historian on the unique corruption of Trump’s White House

By Sean Illing

4 main takeaways from new reports on Russia’s 2016 election interference

By Alex Ward

What does Michael Cohen’s plea deal mean for Trump? I asked 9 legal experts.

By Sean Illing

Early voting is surging in Texas. That might be good news for Beto O’Rourke.

By Emily Stewart

Ted Cruz and the Zodiac Killer, explained

By Matthew Yglesias

David Frum on why Republicans chose Trumpocracy over democracy

By Sean Illing

Why this political scientist thinks the Democrats have to fight dirty

By Sean Illing

Americans have a longstanding love of magical thinking

By Sean Illing

Bruce Ohr, the DOJ official Trump is attacking on Twitter, explained

By Jane Coaston

Prison or pardon: a former prosecutor explains Manafort’s risky legal strategy

By Sean Illing

Did the president obstruct justice? I asked 12 legal experts.

By Sean Illing

Did Trump violate campaign finance law? I asked 11 legal experts.

By Sean Illing

A Russian newspaper editor explains how Putin made Trump his puppet

By Sean Illing

The new Mueller indictments should definitively put the Seth Rich conspiracy to rest

By Jane Coaston

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Peter Strzok testifies before Congress

By Vox Staff

Why the death of democracy may be overhyped

By Sean Illing

Polling data shows Republicans turned out for Trump in 2016 because of the Supreme Court

By Jane Coaston

Ted Cruz says he’s going to introduce “emergency” legislation to stop family separation

By Jane Coaston

Donald Trump’s extremely shady charitable foundation, explained

By Matthew Yglesias

“He’s dying anyway”: the Trump right’s hate for John McCain, explained

By Jane Coaston

Former top spy James Clapper explains how Russia swung the election to Trump

By Sean Illing

What is the future of news? Bleak, probably.

By Sean Illing

8 legal experts on whether Trump’s demand for an investigation into the FBI is legal

By Sean Illing