Donald Trump

If Kamala Harris had won.

“Donald Trump is a master of picking appointees for very senior positions who never would have gotten those jobs under anyone else,” the staff writer Susan B. Glasser says. “I think it’s part of creating not just a government of laws and rules but a government built around the principle of personal loyalty to one man.”

The staff writer Evan Osnos offers a behind-the-scenes perspective on President Biden’s handling of world crises—from Gaza and Ukraine to China’s designs on Taiwan.

After months of frustrating the Biden Administration, Benjamin Netanyahu seems poised to accept a deal on the eve of Trump’s return to the White House.

The once and future President is back to wielding leverage like a club, in the Middle East and on Capitol Hill.

In his farewell address, a weary President Biden issues an essential warning.

His war on the “deep state” ties into a long debate about the power of bureaucrats to thwart the President’s agenda.

Supporters of Donald Trump’s nominee have intimidated potential witnesses and suppressed the F.B.I. background check of the former Fox News host in the run-up to his Senate hearing.

The President-elect’s brand of America First isolationism has always sat awkwardly with his Napoleonic tendencies.

Meta’s decision to stop fact-checking or moderating content on its platforms signals fealty to Donald Trump.

A report from Jimmy Carter’s—and Joe Biden’s—long goodbye.

Pierre Poilievre might now attain the country’s highest office. “I was sickened and appalled when I first came upon his rhetoric,” the staff writer Adam Gopnik says, of the Conservative Party leader.

Critics from the left and the right say Big Tech companies are exploiting the visa system for high-skilled workers to reduce labor costs and boost profits.

Radical revisionism is a strong contender for the theme of this disruptive year, in which some unique property of political alchemy managed to transform a defeated and disgraced ex-President into a perfectly electable Republican candidate.

The tech billionaire derailed a government-funding deal and made a shutdown more likely. His intervention signals the growing sway of wealth in politics, and its risks.

“Joe Biden set out not just to defeat Donald Trump but to defeat Trumpism,” Chotiner says. “And he failed at that.”

On Chris Wray’s self-defenestration and the dilemma of being on the pugilistic President-elect’s target list.

“No matter where you might find yourself on the ideological spectrum,” Jia Tolentino says, “there is a high chance that you feel that health-insurance companies are merchants of death.”

If Trump’s pick to lead the F.B.I. gets confirmed, the Bureau could be politicized in ways that even its notorious first director would have rejected.

As a pro-crypto Administration prepares to take power and crypto investors cheer, there are some parallels with the dot-com boom of the late nineties.