2016 Election

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Liberals Plot Revenge as Trump Moves Into the White House

By Michael Scherer

How the Women's March Has United Progressives of All Stripes

By Charlotte Alter

Trump's First Test

By Alex Altman and Philip Elliott

Barack Obama: Trump Has 'Enough Craziness' to Be President

By Maya Rhodan
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This Is Why Congress Is Only Just Now Counting the Electoral Votes for 2016

The electoral process was changed after one of American history's most controversial presidential races

By Lily Rothman

31 Numbers That Explain the 2016 Election

304: Number of Electoral College Votes won by Republican President-elect Donald Trump 2.8 million: Number of votes by which Democrat Hillary Clinton beat Trump in the national popular vote $2.17 billion: Estimated amount spent by...

By Center for Public Integrity / Michael Beckel and Dave Levinthal

Biden Says Clinton Felt Feminist Duty to Run

"She thought she had no choice"

By Charlotte Alter

Donald Trump Wants a Certain ‘Look’ in His Cabinet

Critics say his choices have been "cast for the TV show of his administration"

By Madeline Farber

The Electoral College Vote Played Out Like the Rest of 2016

Electors defected from Clinton, not Trump

By Charlotte Alter

Why It's Hard to End the Electoral College

For the fifth time in history, the U.S. elected a president who did not win the popular vote. That's led to calls to dismantle the Electoral College, the constitutional system that apportions votes to presidential...

By Ryan Teague Beckwith

Why Jill Stein's Recount Push is Bad News for Democrats

In the age of Trump, the scam PACs that have plagued Republicans could migrate across the aisle

By Alex Altman

Why the North Carolina Governor's Election Is Such a Big Deal for LGBT People

The treatment of transgender people was central to the race

By Katy Steinmetz

Clinton and Trump Aides Clash at Harvard Conference

Deeply divided camps offered an unfiltered oral history of their campaigns at Harvard's quadrennial postmortem.

By Zeke J Miller / Cambridge, Mass. and Philip Elliott / Cambridge, Mass.

See a Map That Shows Exactly Why Trump Won

President-elect Donald Trump’s surprising victory on Nov. 8 stemmed from massive surge in Republican voters throughout the Rust Belt. A TIME analysis of county-level results show stunning shifts in Trump’s favor through the upper Midwest...

By Zeke J Miller and Chris Wilson

How the Wisconsin Recount Could Help Fix American Elections

The information that analysts have to work with is not nearly detailed enough. Will that change?

By Chris Wilson

Wisconsin to Move Forward With Recount

The recount could start in Wisconsin as soon as Thursday

By Maya Rhodan

Meet the People Hanging Out in Trump's Lobby

The lobby of Trump Tower in New York City is the new hotspot in American politics. President-elect Donald Trump has been holding meetings with potential Cabinet members on the 26th floor of his multimillion-dollar skyscraper,...

By Tyler Essary

Obama: Fake News Harms Freedom

His comments come as social-media platforms are under scrutiny for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation

By TIME Staff

Here's How Campaigns Would Work If We Abolished the Electoral College

They might be even more like the 2016 race

By Ryan Teague Beckwith

Stephen Colbert Isn’t a Fan of Donald Trump’s Twitter Feed: 'It's His Way Around the Press'

"Just weird"

By Ashley Hoffman
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