Haley Sweetland Edwards

Haley Sweetland Edwards is the Nation Editor at TIME.

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Voices from Democratic Counties Where Trump Won Big

Voices from Democratic Counties Where Trump Won Big BY ELIZABETH DIAS, HALEY SWEETLAND EDWARDS AND KARL VICK [time-ad size="small" align="bleed-right"] Among Donald Trump’s supporters, the real estate mogul’s victory was akin to a revolution, a...

By Elizabeth Dias , Haley Sweetland Edwards and Karl Vick

Why the Embattled 'Death Tax' May Not Be Long for This World

The estate tax has long punched above its weight. Despite applying to less than one-half of 1% of U.S. estates each year–mostly the richest of the rich–it has earned outsize attention in the political ring,...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

What Trump's Cabinet Pick Means for the Future of Obamacare

President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Rep. Tom Price, a conservative from Georgia and a passionate critic of the Affordable Care Act, to head the sprawling Department of Health and Human Services is a strong...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

How Donald Trump Could Remake Global Trade With a Pen

It’s too early to tell whether Trump will make good on his campaign vows to renegotiate or withdraw from trade deals and slap hefty tariffs on U.S. partners. But the law gives him broad latitude...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Investors Try to Predict Trump

For months before Election Day, Wall Street analysts suggested a Trump victory would send stocks into a swoon. Some even predicted a global recession. Instead, in the wake of the President-elect’s unexpected victory, investment in...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Donald Trump’s Obamacare Conundrum

Donald Trump will soon face the consequences of a familiar admonition: be careful what you wish for. The President-elect is poised to help the new Republican Congress finally repeal the Affordable Care Act. Most health...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Read the Conservative Wishlist for President-Elect Trump

A powerful coalition of social conservatives, evangelicals, Tea Partiers and fiscal hawks gathered in Washington, D.C., this week to lay out a framework for “transformative conservative leadership” under President-elect Donald Trump.Representatives from Freedom Works, the...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Trump Warns of Voter Problems Nationwide, But Evidence Is Scant

Donald Trump spent most of Election Day raising the specter of voter fraud, calling the nation’s elections a “rigged system” and claiming that voting machines were malfunctioning all over the country. But election watchers say...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Trump's Lawsuit in Nevada Ends With a Whimper

After spending months warning of a “rigged election” and predicting darkly that Democrats would vote “many, many times,” Donald Trump’s only Election Day lawsuit alleging voter improprieties so far ended with a whimper.The Trump campaign...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

How to Follow the Results on Election Day

Don't read too much into the early returns

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

'Faithless Electors' Probably Won't Swing Election

If the election results Tuesday come down to a razor thin margin, the fate of the presidential race could very well hinge on the consciences of four, unelected citizens whose names you’ve never heard: Robert...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

The Election Will Still Go On, Even If Hackers Attack

With cybersecurity researchers raising the specter of a cyber attack on Election Day, state and local officials are doubling down on a different message: no matter what, the final vote will be legitimate.“If there’s one...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

4 Electoral Snafus That Could Shake Up Election Day

It helps to think of the architects of our nascent Constitution as the Eagle Scouts of their day. For every possible scenario that could occur during a national election, they either came up with a...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

How the Media Got Smarter About Calling Elections

There’s a lot we can’t know for sure before election night: who will vote, who will win, who will refuse to concede. But no matter what happens, we do know that the media–specifically, the Associated...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

'Vote Flipping' Happens, But It Doesn't Mean the Election Is Rigged

If you have trouble, ask a poll worker for help

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

A Shocking Internet Attack Shows America's Vulnerability

The Internet began to wobble at 7 a.m. Early on Oct. 21, servers at a little-known Internet infrastructure company, Dyn, based in Manchester, N.H., began experiencing an overwhelming flood of malicious traffic. By midday a...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards and Matt Vella

How Web Cams Helped Bring Down the Internet, Briefly

In a world where we increasingly live and work in giant webs of internet connectivity—our computers and phones, not to mention cameras, thermostats, garage door openers, kitchen appliances and baby monitors are all now connected...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Trump and Clinton Skeptical of AT&T, Time Warner Merger

Lawmakers are increasingly concerned about mega mergers

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Why Trump's 'Ballot Watchers' Might Be Illegal

Donald Trump’s repeated calls for supporters to gather friends and family to monitor polling places for cases of voter fraud raises a thorny question: When, exactly, do “ballot security” measures cross the line into illegal...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Why Trump Is Wrong About 'Rigged' Elections

Just three weeks before Election Day, Donald Trump is doubling down on his claim that the U.S. election system is “phony” and “rigged”—language that threatens to undermine the legitimacy of both the results of the...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards
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