Gwynn Guilford

Donald Trump’s pick for labor secretary is named Andy Puzder. But you can call him Chicken Little.

“I’m a free trader,” said Donald Trump, in his speech announcing his candidacy. That was in June 2015. Since then, he’s been singing a very different tune. Sounding more like a flannel-wearing protester than the ruthless tycoon of The Apprentice, Trump now says the US needs ”fair trade, not free trade.” The fact that America imports nearly $800 billion more in goods than it exports is a “politician-made disaster,” he said in a big speech on trade in June 2016, adding, “It is the consequence of a leadership class that worships globalism over Americanism.”

Donald Trump gives China a lot of grief on Twitter and at his rallies. But he also just gave the Middle Kingdom a lot of face.

“Cheating” China was one of Donald Trump’s best-loved campaign trail bugbears. And it still is, it turns out. After facing blowback for his phone call with Taiwan’s president—a move that snubbed China, which claims sovereignty over Taiwan—Trump defended himself via his favorite spleen-venting medium:

This January, as Donald Trump is being sworn in, something else unprecedented will be happening across the Atlantic: Chinese president Xi Jinping will be yukking it up in Davos, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, reports the Financial Times. (A WEF spokesman declined to confirm Xi’s attendance at the event.)

President Ronald Reagan, godfather of modern Republicanism, once said, “We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and, ultimately, human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down…. Trust the people.”

Populist-elect Donald Trump is boldly taking on one the most politically popular tax break on the books in an effort to revive America’s middle class. Or at least, that’s what Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s pick to head up the treasury, promised when he revealed a cap on mortgage interest deductions as part of “a big tax cut for the middle class,” in a CNBC interview on Dec. 1.

People everywhere are down on democracy. Especially young people. In fact, so rampant is democratic indifference and disengagement among millennials that a shocking share of them are open to trying something new—like, say, government by military coup.

Abraham Lincoln was more than just a foe of slavery. He was also a mixed-race eugenicist, believing that the intermarriage of blacks and whites would yield an American super-race.

President-elect Donald Trump isn’t an ideologue. He’s a salesman who seeks approval from whoever he’s pitching. How can you tell? Well, to win the presidency, Trump energized a base of voters that felt ignored by Hillary Clinton. His supporters rallied behind the tentpole policies of his pledge to “Make America Great Again,” which included some ancillary promises, like putting Hillary Clinton in jail.

Pop quiz—which major American political figure said the following:

In her concession speech, Hillary Clinton worked in a nice thrust against the president-elect, Donald Trump, who had threatened to reject the election’s outcome if he lost. “Our constitutional democracy enshrines the peaceful transfer of power,” said Clinton.

Mainers have just done something big for American democracy: they’ve voted to change how they vote.

The American people have chosen. They want Donald Trump.

Donald Trump might win today. Or he might lose. Whatever happens, America will wake up on Nov. 9, 2016, knowing a lot more about itself than it did before.

In the subway, on the street, in line at the grocery store, at a bar counter—all across America, fallout of the year’s savage Trump-vs.-Clinton psychodrama is inescapable. Like no election in recent memory, this race has taken a toll on people’s mental health.

The FBI has concluded for the second time in four months that Hillary Clinton’s alleged mishandling of her emails should not be criminally prosecuted. James Comey, the bureau’s embattled director, informed Congress via letter today (Nov. 6) that “based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July,” when it said criminal prosecution was not warranted.

“Unlikeable.” “Untrustworthy.” “Enthusiasm gap.” Much of the media coverage of the 2016 US presidential election would have you believe that people just aren’t that excited about Hillary Clinton.

Marc Baluda almost always votes Republican. This year, however, he’s casting his ballot for Jill Stein.

Polls show Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump still well behind Democrat Hillary Clinton, but his campaign insists he can win. Why? Because when called by pollsters, some Trump supporters won’t admit that they’re voting for Trump.

Hillary Clinton’s supporters are fretting about the Democratic nominee’s deteriorating chances of beating Donald Trump for the US presidency. Still, she remains the odds-on favorite, with a 75% probability of victory, according to FiveThirty Eight’s polls-only model. Two weeks ago, it was 88%.

Donald Trump just did something that no other Republican presidential nominee has done on the campaign trail: he unfurled a rainbow flag with “LGBT” written on it.  As Trump made his entrance at a rally in Greeley, Colorado, on Oct. 30, he paused toward the edge of the stage, pointed at the audience, and crooked his finger as though beckoning someone. After someone—presumably a Secret Service agent—handed Trump the balled-up rainbow flag, he held up the flag and strode around the stage before handing it back to someone in the audience. He didn’t actually mention LGBT rights in the speech that followed.

The economy worries Americans more than anything else these days. And the four presidential debate moderators completely ignored one of its most crucial drivers, education.

The biggest challenge Hillary Clinton’s been up against this election isn’t her pouting, potty-mouthed rival. No, the biggest challenge has always been herself—the eerie hollowness that makes people feel like they can’t know her or what she stands for.