Best of 2016: Political Analysis

Unpack the dilemma facing liberal voters and get insights on moving beyond guilt tactics—see what a more pragmatic appeal looks like.

How one school became a battleground over which children benefit from a separate and unequal system.

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A coalition of progressives has been quietly building a plan to bring Occupy-style ideas into the political establishment. Will the Democratic nominee get on board?

This is not a simple candidacy — or candidate.

Hillary Clinton and the Democrats were playing with fire when they effectively wrote off white workers in the small towns and cities of the Rust Belt.

In the face of the impulse to normalize, it is essential to maintain one’s capacity for shock. This will lead people to call you unreasonable and hysterical, and to accuse you of overreacting. It is no fun to be the only hysterical person in the room. Prepare yourself.

The coalition she thought would pierce it — and faith that it will happen — are in pieces.

A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next