Donald J. Trump, the first felon elected president, has a sentencing scheduled for Nov. 26. He has many ways to avoid punishment.

© Dave Sanders for The New York Times

You aren’t just choosing a candidate. You’re choosing a theory of power.

Our tense democracy could lurch from being an illiberal republic to a dictatorship by any other name.

Trump’s great accomplishment is to spread the dangerous lie that our problems can be blamed on the weakest and most vulnerable in our midst.