Bernie Sanders isn’t going quietly into the night – not by a long shot. By Mark Karlin.

Blame the media, not Moscow. By Philip Giraldi.

A Journey to the President-Elect’s Private “Public” Park. By Nick Turse.

Contrary to how he was portrayed in the mainstream media Trump did not talk only of walls, immigration bans, and deportations. In fact he usually didn’t spend much time on those themes. By Christian Parenti.

Across a broad range of crucial issues, the incoming Trump administration appears likely to betray the promises he made to the American middle class. Here’s a rough sketch of how. By Josh Bivens.

The senator and the film-maker discuss Trump, where Clinton went wrong – and how to make a difference in 2017. By Emma Brockes.

The vote for Donald Trump may well have been what Michael Moore called the ‘biggest fuck-you ever recorded in human history’, delivered by the white working class to spite ‘the establishment’. But it isn’t just the size of the fuck-you that matters; it’s also who delivers it… By Jan-Werner Müller.

Having studied authoritarian states for over a decade, I would never exaggerate the severity of the threat we now face. But an American kleptocracy is exactly where president-elect Trump and his backers are taking us. That’s why I have a favor to ask you, my fellow Americans. By Sarah Kendzior.

North Carolina Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, champion of the country’s most notorious anti-LGBTQ law, lost his bid for re-election on Nov. 8—at last count, by 7,448 votes. Yet nearly two weeks later, McCrory still refuses to concede. Instead… By Mark Joseph Stern.

The humanity of the rural working classes and Trump supporters. By Dawn Potter.

All of us who are familiar with rural areas and former industrial towns in this country know the impoverishment and hopelessness of many men and women who live there. Understandably, they are angry. These unfortunates, who’ve been cheated and swindled by bosses, mortgage banks, and both political parties, have put all their hopes in a billionaire who has a long record of not paying taxes, cheating his workers and contractors out of their pay, and seemingly using his own “charitable” foundation as a slush fund. They voted for a buffoon who doesn’t care whether they live or die. By Charles Simic.

Born in Africa, raised near Baltimore, feeling stung by bias, she came away “empowered.” By Fern Shen. (Nov. 18, 2016)

How a misinformed Twitter post the night after the presidential election fueled a nationwide conspiracy theory and became a talking point for a world leader — even as it was being proved false. By Sapna Maheshwari.

At around 11 p.m. on election night, November 8, 2016, American liberals discovered that we’re still living in Carl Schmitt’s world. By Malloy Owen.

Protesters plan to descend on Washington, D.C., for Donald Trump’s Inauguration, and may number in the hundreds of thousands. By Evan Osnos.

Even President Obama’s critics will soon have plenty of reasons to appreciate him. By Matt Taibbi.

The air felt leaden in the hallways at West High School on the morning after Election Day. The usual clatter from the building’s 2,000 students was muffled. At lunchtime, Lujayn Hamad was in the cafeteria when she said a boy she barely knew roughly bumped into her and swore at her. By Julie Bosman.

He also has almost no experience in the world of intelligence. By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai.

Alt-right leader Richard Spencer called Steve Bannon and Jeff Sessions “wonderful.” By Lema Levy.

The Berlusconi years in Italy provide a blueprint to thwart a Trump dynasty. By Luigi Zingales.