Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: Ethan Miller / Getty. Expectations of who will gain, and who will lose, from the president-elect’s second term are already moving markets.

Last night, polls anticipated a whisker-thin election, and instead we got a red wave that carried Donald Trump to victory.The ...

Harris’s loss has spurred finger-pointing, soul-searching, and garment-rending. For years, thinkers on the left had urged the ...

Guest: Corey Brettschneider is a professor of constitutional law and politics at Brown University. He is the author of The Oath and the Office and his latest, The Presidents and the People: Five ...

How better to thread this particular needle than with movies about American politics? Filmmakers have long been dealing with the topic of our nation’s origin story, and how our particular manner ...

May 14, 2024 — The latest 'Florida Climate Resilience Survey' found that 90% of Floridians believe that climate change is happening. Belief in human-caused climate change has surged among ...

Every weekday, NPR's best political reporters are there to explain the big news coming out of Washington and the campaign trail. They don't just tell you what happened. They tell you why it matters.

Jennifer Lopez shared insight into her holiday plans with family and her “quiet evenings” in after her split from ex Ben Affleck earlier this year. Over two months after Jennifer Lopez filed ...

Ben Carson, a world-renowned neurosurgeon, had not been deeply involved in politics until 2013, when he blasted liberal policies in a speech at the traditionally non-partisan National Prayer ...

This is the most important fundraising moment of the year for the Reader. As a nonprofit, we count on donors like you to cover about half of our expenses. The average donation is $45. Many new ...

Mary Ellen Klas, a politics and policy columnist at Bloomberg, discusses the potential future of women’s rights during the second Trump term. ABC News contributor Mike Muse breaks down the ...