Readers point to Joe Biden, the economy, “hate and fear” and no-show voters. Also: How Roe v. Wade saved a woman’s life.

They walked into the trap of defending the very institutions most Americans distrust.

Resistance politics inevitably feels conservative. It’s reactionary in a literal sense, and this week, it ended in disaster for the Democrats.

The 2024 election has the potential to challenge the New Deal realignment of 1932 as the most consequential election of the past 100 years.

Trump is on track to win the popular vote. There’s a lesson there.

Opinion columnists break down what the best version of a second Trump administration could look like.

Why the 2024 election’s outcome was uniquely foreseeable.

Mounting development is a grave threat because of how it is carving up an ecosystem that must stay relatively intact to function.

In a year filled with elections, the state of democracy is thriving by many measures. But there are dark clouds on the horizon.

Readers offer personal reactions and reflections. Also: A bill to combat antisemitism; noise in restaurants.

Americans aren’t joyful. They’re angry. And they’ve been telling us that all along.

Making sense of this election’s very strange abortion politics.

What should Trump’s opponents do next?

It was the wrong time to be the defender and champion of the country’s governing establishment.

Opinion columnists break down what the worst version of a second Trump administration would be.

The war in the Middle East has become this era’s most important progressive cause.

The coalition the Democratic Party built in the Obama years has crumbled. But Democrats can choose how to respond.

Apart from promising to safeguard abortion rights, the campaign didn’t do enough to address other issues important to women.

Two columnists argue that the left neglected to hear what Americans were telling them over the past four years.

There could have been as many as 50,000 babies trafficked out of Chile between the 1950s and the 1990s.

Rage can be a dangerous political tool.

Donald Trump is a monstrous narcissist, but there’s something off about an educated class that looks in the mirror of society and sees only itself.

Even if only one candidate is gracious enough to do it.

Here’s how to be a watchdog, not a lap dog, for the next four tumultuous years, while holding on to your sanity.

The morning after the apocalypse.

Why America went with Trump, again.

Her loss is a sign that the age of identity politics is not over.

Readers express fears for the future and speculate about why he won.

This election wasn’t just about the candidates