Once again, President-elect Trump has chosen a top official with a history of racism and bigotry. By the New York Times Editorial Board.

A reality check for all sides. By Elizabeth Nolan Brown.

Before leaving Pulitzer Hall, the Columbia Journalism School building in Manhattan, on Election Night, I stopped by our makeshift newsroom to absorb some of the evening’s excitement. It was still early in the process; polls were just beginning to close around the country… By Ari L. Goldman.

Bear Witness and Behave as If You Are Free. By David L. Ulin.

Chomsky warned years ago that the U.S. was ripe for the rise of an authoritarian. Now he speaks about the election, the state of the U.S. political system and the threat Donald Trump poses to the world. By C.J. Polychroniou.

Trump’s election was enabled by the policies that overlooked the plight of our most vulnerable citizens. We gird ourselves for a frightening future. By Cornel West.

In a normal transition, there’s always disorder. This time may be much worse. By Eliot A. Cohen.

An architect of anti-immigration efforts who says he is advising President-elect Donald Trump said the new administration could push ahead rapidly on construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall without seeking immediate congressional approval. By Mica Rosenberg and Julia Edwards Ainsley.

In the midst of sectarian violence that has overtaken Syria for more than five years, nine-year-old Asil Kassab is shocked by the defeat of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton… By Justin Coates. [Satire]

Racism, sexism, and the other hatreds and phobias lately on display didn’t become normalized this year. They’ve always been normal—for some of us. By Hua Hsu.

Mike Pence’s ascent to the second most powerful position in the U.S. government is a tremendous coup for the radical religious right. By Jeremy Scahill.

Whatever our dismay about the US election result, this year was always meant to have been a Republican year. If you looked at the postwar presidencies that ran across two terms, and then at who won the mid-terms in the sixth year, you would have been able to predict the presidential result… By R.W. Johnson.

Before a single vote was cast, the election was fixed by GOP and Trump operatives. Starting in 2013 —€“ just as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act —€“ a coterie of Trump operatives, under the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, created a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of color… By Greg Palast.

People have lost their sense of security, status and even identity. Trump’s victory is the scream of an America desperate for radical change. By Naomi Klein.

The city may have a kumbaya image, but it was founded as a white utopia. By Leah Sottile.

The lending system has exploded in a predatory mushroom cloud. By Alan Collinge.

“For Trump supporters, the initial celebration will collide with gritty reality when Trump proves as unable or unwilling as his predecessors to challenge the entrenched systems that continually degrade their lives: global finance capital, the deep state, and their programming ideologies.” By Charles Eisenstein.

Trump Induces First Major Policy Change on Syria

Debbie Wasserman Schultz may be a Jewish girl from New York, but I’m guessing she’s discovered what it’s like to be Amish. Certainly she has a good idea of what a shunning is. By Nancy Smith.

If you read the headlines, Donald Trump’s election has killed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The headlines have it wrong. By Arthur Stamoulis.