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.

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

With the rise of Donald Trump, we need to think seriously about what it would take to form a democratic organization rooted in the working class. By Seth Ackerman.

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.

Time for the Democrats to wake up. By Charles P. Pierce.

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.

The Vermont senator, however, lost the Democratic presidential nomination to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by a margin of three million votes. By Mary Pascaline.

Trump’s victory is saddening, but not surprising. By Bernie Sanders.

Yesterday, WikiLeaks released a new email that synthesizes why Hillary Clinton and the Democrats suffered such devastating losses in Tuesday’s election, losing states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that should have been easy wins for the Democrats. By Pam and Russ Martens.

I would love to share, my liberal friend, in your sense of incredulity about the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of United States. I would love to stand with you in the sense of woundedness that, while certainly painful up front, carries with it the secondary compensation of a warm and nurturing solidarity… By Thomas S. Harrington.

If we withdraw into our grief and abandon those most threatened by Trump’s win, history will never forgive us. By D.D. Guttenplan.

Hillary Clinton was exactly the wrong candidate: a technocrat who offered fine-tuning when the country wanted to take a sledgehammer to the machine. By Thomas Frank.

What, exactly, is cholera? And why can’t we stop it? By Jason Beaubien.

How did a Bavarian professor end up creating a group that would be at the center of two centuries of conspiracy theories? By Isabel Hernández.

In the U.S. Senate race, Kamala Harris is a better bet than Blue Dog Loretta Sanchez and in the congressional races, the Democrats I would never consider voting for are...

How Hillary Clinton backers deployed faux feminism and privilege politics to divert attention from her destructive policies. By Patrick Barrett and Deepa Kumar.

Uni High tapped into the pop-psych teachings of the ‘70s to create one of the most bizarre curriculums of the era. By David Kukoff.

Hillary Clinton and her supporters have turned to ugly McCarthyism in attacking Donald Trump to divert attention from their email scandals, a dangerous use of Russia-bashing, says Robert Parry.

While Trump may fetishize a past that is retrograde, liberals and progressives have also demonstrated a troubling tendency to fetishize a future that they presume is on their side. By Maximillian Alvarez.