Party leaders have met Trump’s postelection sabotage with stunning meekness. Will they stop running from fights?

In an election between two septuagenarians, the elderly dominated turnout like never before—more than offsetting a surge in the youth vote.

Immigration agencies won’t suddenly clean up their act when the president leaves office. What’s Biden going to do about their systemic abuses?

The secretary of state is igniting diplomatic infernos left and right, leaving the next administration with untold damage on its hands.

Biden’s Cabinet is shaping up to be everything that Trump’s was not.

Biden is getting the Obama gang back together. Their old pro-shale positions were pretty bad for the climate.

How the network plans to use its Obama playbook against the next Democratic president

It may turn out that Donald Trump was the one force keeping the Democratic Party together.

The president’s attempts to undo the election result have largely been a farce, but the lasting damage to our civic fabric is no laughing matter.

The lame-duck Treasury secretary seems to want to sabotage Biden’s ability to stave off the pandemic’s economic impacts.

Politicians love to bluster about saving “our democracy”—without acknowledging all the ways it’s broken.

For the last five years, the press has breathlessly followed Trump’s every turn. It’s finally time to move on.

The former president seems unable to reckon with the failures of his presidency and diagnose the Republican Party’s incurable nihilism.

How President-elect Joe Biden can start the hard work of rebuilding a fractured country

His inclusive approach to governing will give fossil fuel companies far too much power over his climate agenda.

The South Carolina senator seems determined to go down in history as the ultimate Trump dead-ender.

With one stroke, the new president could revive the labor movement and help repair the post-pandemic economy.

The best picks you’ve never heard of

Democratic governors and legislatures took charge on reducing emissions under Trump. That will have to continue if Republicans hold the Senate.