‘Not Our President’: Protests Spread After Donald Trump's Election  —  Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Manhattan on Wednesday night and converged on Trump Tower in Midtown to protest the election of Donald J. Trump as president.  —  Similar protests happened in several cities across …

Democrats face a power outage in Washington — and an identity crisis  —  The biggest stain on Barack Obama's political legacy may turn out to be the decimation of the Democratic Party on his watch.  —  The 2016 election has brought a moment of reckoning — and a new era to the party.

Here Is What Donald Trump Wants To Do In His First 100 Days  —  At the end of October, Donald Trump spoke in Gettysburg, Pa., and released a plan for his first 100 days in office.  —  The plan (below) outlines three main areas of focus: cleaning up Washington, including by imposing term limits on Congress …

Russia Says It Was in Contact With Trump's Team During Campaign  —  Russia said it was in contact with President-elect Donald Trump's team during the U.S. election campaign, despite repeated denials by the Republican candidate's advisers that any links existed.

‘He Is Not My President’: Donald Trump Inspires Thousands to Protest in Streets Across U.S.  —  Thousands Protest Trump's Victory Around US 1:06  —  Thousands of protesters swarmed the streets of several major cities Wednesday to voice their opposition to Donald Trump …

What A Difference 2 Percentage Points Makes  —  Here's the Electoral College map we're going to end up with, assuming that every uncalled state goes to the candidate leading in the vote count there as of 4 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday.  There's a sea of red for President-elect Donald Trump.

Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook  —  A close and — to pundits, journalists, and Democrats — unexpected victory like Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's is always overdetermined, and no one particular thing pushed Trump over the edge on Tuesday night.

Priebus ‘in tears’ after Trump tapes were leaked: radio host  —  Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus was reportedly in tears after the release of a 2005 tape in which Donald Trump  —  was heard making lewd comments about women.  —  Conservative radio host Charlie Sykes told …

People in California are calling for a ‘Calexit’ from the US in the wake of Trump's win  —  “Calexit” is swiftly taking over social media.  —  After Donald Trump won the race to the White House, people across California took to social media Tuesday night to call for “Calexit,” recalling Brexit in its push to leave the union.

Dow hits all-time high after wild day of trading  —  The Dow Jones industrial index hit an an all-time high Wednesday, reversing a massive drop triggered by President-elect Donald Trump  —  's improbable win.  —  The Dow surged more than 300 points briefly Wednesday afternoon, finishing with a 250-point rise.

Secretary Of Education Ben Carson?  Here's A List Of Potential Trump Cabinet Picks  —  President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has put together a who's who shortlist of Trump surrogates and advisers to take top positions in his administration next year, ranging from former …

Team Trump Struggling to Fill National Security Jobs  —  President-Elect Donald Trump is scrambling to line up senior officials to run the government's sprawling intelligence and homeland security bureaucracy.  —  Team Trump is struggling to fill numerous key slots or even attract many candidates …

A freakout at Wellesley College  —  Hillary Clinton is a Wellesley grad, but that's no excuse for this inane letter from Wellesley president Paula Johnson to the “Wellesley community”: … I have trouble reconciling the second paragraph — equity for all, regardless of gender, etc. — with the third — “women's leadership is best.”

Trump voters will not like what happens next  —  Garrison Keillor is an author and radio personality.  —  So he won.  The nation takes a deep breath.  Raw ego and proud illiteracy have won out, and a severely learning-disabled man with a real character problem will be president.

America Elects a Bigot  —  Donald J. Trump is president-elect of the United States.  Now there's a sentence I never thought I'd write.  —  Against all odds and against all forms of the establishment, he prevailed.  He won, legitimately, including in many states that were thought to be safely blue.

Reince Priebus' moment  —  The cast of characters behind Donald Trump changed repeatedly during the course of his improbable presidential campaign as the rookie candidate struggled to strike the balance between Republican politician and anti-establishment crusader, but one person remained constant: Reince Priebus.

Trump poised to erase Obama policies  —  Prepare for an imperial presidency.  —  Donald Trump has pledged to “reform the entire regulatory code,” to “cancel immediately all illegal and overreaching executive orders,” and to place a “temporary moratorium on new agency regulations that are not compelled by Congress or public safety.”

The “Missing White Voters,” Revisited  —  In the aftermath of the 2012 elections, I was perplexed.  Most analysts had believed that if turnout dropped, Mitt Romney would be president.  Yet turnout was clearly down by a substantial degree, yet President Obama had a surprisingly strong showing.