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2016 Presidential Election

Coverage of the 2016 presidential election.

Seth Rich’s parents are taking their fight against Fox News to court

By Jane Coaston

Can Trump pardon his way out of the Mueller probe? This law professor says no.

By Sean Illing

Why we should stop treating Silicon Valley’s male CEOs like children

By Sean Illing

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“It’s pretty much the Wild West”: why we can’t trust Facebook to police itself

By Sean Illing

How Russia pioneered “fake news”

By Sean Illing

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Cambridge Analytica, the shady data firm that might be a key Trump-Russia link, explained

By Sean Illing

Report: Russia probed at least 7 states’ voter systems before the 2016 election

By Jen Kirby

How Trump’s 2020 campaign manager is connected to the Russia scandal

By Sean Illing

7 legal experts on what Mueller’s Russia indictments mean for Trump

By Sean Illing

There’s a war for your attention. And you’re probably losing it.

By Sean Illing

This one photo explains job stability in Trumpworld

By Jane Coaston

Trump built his own “deep state.” Now he needs the GOP to save him from it. 

By Jane Coaston

The controversial Nunes memo is out. Here’s what we know.

By Jane Coaston

“Unprecedented”: 9 historians on why Trump’s war with the FBI is so stunning

By Sean Illing

#ReleaseTheMemo and the conservative war on the FBI, explained

By Jane Coaston

In 2008, Hillary Clinton’s faith adviser was accused of sexual harassment — and was kept on

By Jane Coaston

Fareed Zakaria on the most important lesson of the Trump presidency

By Sean Illing

Bannon’s Breitbart is dead. But Breitbart will live on.

By Jane Coaston

Bill Kristol thinks “people are just too unhappy with the status quo”

By Jane Coaston

This might be the best map of the 2016 election you ever see

By Dylan Scott

Why social media is terrible for multiethnic democracies

By Sean Illing

“Set aside Putin and follow the money”: a Russia expert’s theory of the Trump scandal

By Sean Illing

9 legal experts on why Trump Jr. can't hide behind attorney-client privilege

By Sean Illing

“I’m confident Flynn is singing like a bird to Mueller.”

By Sean Illing

Matt Lauer totally blew it on Trump’s blatant lying about Iraq and Libya

By Matthew Yglesias

A grad student spent 12 months undercover in Europe's alt-right movement

By Sean Illing

Why Donald Trump keeps calling Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas”

By Emily Crockett and Michelle Garcia

The rape allegation against Bill Clinton, explained

By Dylan Matthews

"A giant fog machine": how right-wing media obscures Mueller and other inconvenient stories

By Sean Illing

Why is Mueller’s team homing in on Paul Manafort? I asked a former federal prosecutor.

By Sean Illing

“Trapped in a cage they had all built”: one of Greece’s most notorious leaders on the EU

By Sean Illing

“The left is worse on gender issues than they realize”

By Sean Illing

20 of America's top political scientists gathered to discuss our democracy. They're scared.

By Sean Illing

How Canada ended gerrymandering

By Andrew Prokop

Trump’s “election integrity” chair says new data backs up his voter fraud claims. He’s wrong.

By German Lopez

Debating the liberal case against identity politics

By Sean Illing

The roots of the alt-right

By Sean Illing

Media scholar on Trump TV: “This is Orwellian, and it’s happening right now, right here”

By Sean Illing

How important is it that Mueller has formed a grand jury? I asked 20 legal experts.

By Sean Illing

“It’s just an embarrassing spectacle at this point”: Matt Taibbi on Trump’s America

By Sean Illing