Michael Tomasky What Did the Democrats Win? The minority repeatedly thwarting the will of the majority is intolerable and untenable. December 17, 2020 issue
Walter M. Shaub Jr. The Presidential Transition Meets Murphy’s Law One senior official is charged with ensuring a peaceful transfer of power when there is an apparent election winner. The Trump appointee is jeopardizing all that. November 13, 2020
Fintan O’Toole Democracy’s Afterlife Trump, the GOP, and the rise of zombie politics. December 3, 2020 issue
Samuel Moyn How Trump Won He failed as an autocrat, despite opponents’ overblown fears, but succeeded in breaking the neoliberal consensus of the Beltway. We ignore that at our peril. November 9, 2020
Peter Beinart How Trump Lost If he’d governed as he ran in 2016, as an economic populist, he would likely have been reelected. Instead, he reverted to the same old Republican playbook. November 7, 2020
Radcliffe Roye ‘God, Guns, & Trump’: Anatomy of the Crowd What the body language of Trump supporters tells us about America’s divided future. January 22, 2021
Mark Danner ‘Be Ready to Fight’ Trumpism is driven by cruelty and domination even as its rhetoric claims grievance and victimization. The attack on the Capitol showed that Donald Trump’s army of millions will not just melt away when he leaves office. February 11, 2021 issue
Ankush Khardori Wanted: Lead Suspect in Election Fraud Conspiracy Once Trump leaves office, he loses immunity. After his attempted coup, let’s not award him impunity instead. January 6, 2021
Shirley Elizabeth Thompson On Race and Property in the South “There is just something about the robustness of Black cultural institutions and networks in the South that can’t be matched elsewhere.” November 28, 2020
Jennifer Cohn Is the Election Safe from Hacking? The vulnerabilities are real. But so are the things citizens can do to help safeguard their votes. October 31, 2020
