2020 Election: Latest News and Updates
In-depth reporting, commentary, and analysis of the Presidential election, including articles about Donald Trump, Joe Biden, polls, voting, and results.
Our Columnists
What Was Nate Silver’s Data Revolution?
Silver, a former professional poker player, was in the business of measuring probabilities. Many readers mistook him for an oracle.
Letter from Biden’s Washington
Fox News Doesn’t Do Apologies
Rupert Murdoch may have to pay for Donald Trump’s 2020 election lies, but who’s going to reimburse American democracy?
Annals of Communications
The Stunning End of Dominion’s Case Against Fox News
The voting-machine company has agreed to a seven-hundred-million-dollar settlement in its defamation suit against Rupert Murdoch’s cable news network.
Annals of Communications
What Dominion Has to Prove in Its Case Against Fox News
Did the hosts of the country’s most popular cable news network know that Trump’s lies about the election were untrue?
Comment
The Trump Show Moves to a Courtroom
The former President’s campaigns against officials investigating him have supplied Joe Biden with a favored theme: the need to fortify democratic institutions.
Comment
Where Dominion v. Fox Could Lead
The case may have profound implications not only for the two companies but also for the legal framework in which the media operate.
Letter from Biden’s Washington
Donald Who?: Fox, the Dominion Case, and the Perils of Pivoting from Trump
Ignoring the former President doesn’t seem to have sunk him yet.
A Critic at Large
What the January 6th Report Is Missing
The investigative committee singles out Trump for his role in the Capitol attack. As prosecution, the report is thorough. But as historical explanation it’s a mess.
Letter from the Southwest
Why Arizona Is a Hotbed of Election Conspiracy Theories
Close races and a contested cultural legacy have combined with Republican cowardice.
American Chronicles
The Election Official Who Tried to Prove “Stop the Steal”
How a group of conspiracy theorists enlisted a county clerk in Colorado to find evidence that the 2020 vote was rigged.
Letter from Biden’s Washington
Joe Biden’s This-Is-Not-Normal Speech on the Rising Danger of MAGA Trumpists
The President calls out Trump and his Republicans, and they see red.
Letter from Biden’s Washington
Trump vs. Biden, and Biden vs. Trump: Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
Was this week a preview of our next two years of duelling Presidents?
Our Columnists
Cassidy Hutchinson’s Testimony Should Be the End of Donald Trump
Regardless of the legal obstacles to convicting the former President, Hutchinson’s testimony reconfirmed that he must never again be allowed anywhere near power.
The Political Scene Podcast
What the January 6th Committee Uncovered This Week
Jane Mayer, Susan B. Glasser, and Evan Osnos discuss how President Trump pressured the Department of Justice to overturn the 2020 election.
Blitt’s Kvetchbook
Ron Johnson Caught Red-Handed!
Though he now swears he has no idea what he was passing.
Daily Comment
What It Means to Be Targeted by the President
Witnesses at the latest January 6th hearings share an experience that, since Donald Trump, has become a hallmark of politics: being terrorized by the full modern machinery of American hate-mongering.
The Political Scene Podcast
The Bombshell Moments at the Second Week of the January 6th Hearings
Jane Mayer, Susan B. Glasser, and Evan Osnos break down revelations about the actions of Mike Pence, Bill Barr, and other senior Trump Administration officials during the attack on the Capitol.
Daily Shouts
Almost-Believable Leaked Mark Meadows Texts
“Hey, Mark, I’m sure u have a lot going on and I don’t know on these things but maybe we could do the essplosion from ‘Independence Day?’ Just throwing it out there.”
Daily Shouts
Stories More Believable Than That the 2020 Election Was Stolen
Diet starts tomorrow, you’ll fix him, and other myths more credible than the idea that Donald Trump won the 2020 election.