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EARLY LAST YEAR, I WENT TO A SMALL DINNER in New York for one of my predecessors in this job, former TIME editor turned best-selling biographer, professor and PBS host Walter Isaacson. We wound up talking about—what else?—the upcoming election. TIME

RE “BLUEPRINT FOR THE Planet” [Nov. 2–9]: It is refreshing to have an “amateur”—an architect, Bjarke Ingels—develop a scenario for our future risks and chances, and how to tackle them. I tend to agree with most of his ideas, but like most other “poli

Estimated number of hours of sleep lost across the U.S. on election night, according to data from health and wellness tracker Oura Ring Number of German shepherds who will live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. when President-elect Joe Biden takes office on

UNDER NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES, FEW AMERIcans would know Emily Murphy’s name. The head of the General Services Administration (GSA) is the ultimate Washington bureaucrat, responsible for signing the leases and procuring the supplies that keep the Executi

THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN A DRAGON IS A DRAGON SLAYER. For four years, Donald Trump’s penchant for division and chaos was the dominant force in American life. In the end, after a long and excruciating battle, it was vanquished by Joe Biden’s

IT ALL FINALLY CAUGHT UP TO HIM. THE LIES, THE boasts, the disorder and disastrous management, the rants and the race-baiting, the predatory instincts and compulsion to dominate—all the things that made Donald Trump the ringmaster of the American pol

IN OCTOBER 2019, ABOUT A YEAR BEfore Election Day, a lawyer representing Donald Trump made a striking argument before a courtroom in Manhattan. Even if the President were actually to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, he could not be charged with a crime

WHEN AMERICANS ELECTED KAMALA HARRIS Vice President, they symbolically completed a 150-year project of recognizing the right of Black people to exercise the full franchise as citizens. In 1870, the 15th Amendment gave African-American men the right t

THE NEWS THAT JOE BIDEN had won the 2020 election was, especially for many women and people of color, just as much—or more—about his running mate. Upon hearing that Kamala Harris would be the first female, first Black and first Asian-American Vice Pr

AMERICANS HAVE VOTED and, with overwhelming numbers, declared they have had enough of Donald Trump and his political circus. One feels a sense of relief, but victories are rarely complete and total. Millions of Americans believe Joe Biden’s election

“IF THE PUBLIC-HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, IF DR. [Anthony] Fauci, if doctors tell us we should take it, I would be first in line. If Donald Trump tells us we should take it, then I’m not taking it.” That was Vice President–elect Kamala Harris’ response wh

DEMOCRATS HAD HIGH HOPES FOR HEALTH CARE. After winning big on the issue in the 2018 midterms, Democrats swaggered into 2020 convinced they had a mandate to transform the industry. The only question was how best to do it. In the Democratic primary, J

THIS YEAR’S STRING OF CLIMATE CATASTROPHES is hard to miss. During the 2020 presidential campaign, more named tropical storms made landfall in one U.S. hurricane season than ever before. For the first time this century, a single wildfire burned more

AS THE SHADOWS LENGTHENED, FRANKLIN ROOsevelt’s mind returned to the beginning. At his fourth Inaugural, held on Saturday, Jan. 20, 1945—the President had less than three months to live—FDR recalled the words of his old prep school headmaster, Endico

THE LEGEND OF ORSON WELLES IS A FOLK SONG with many stanzas and no end. He was a genius and a tyrant, a young rogue who either maximized or squandered his talent, depending on whom you talk to, an imperious figure who, in his last years, gained too m

THE FINANCE GUY HAS BEEN A STOCK CHARACTER EVER since Gordon Gekko slithered onto the screen in 1987’s Wall Street, preaching the gospel of greed. We’ve seen nominally diversified variations on the theme, from Working Girl to Showtime’s Black Monday.

How did you prepare to talk about the election live on air with such granularity? I likened it in the final month or so before the election to cramming for a final back in college and committing as much to muscle memory as I could: Census data, votin