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By David Remnick

As Trump takes office, there is every reason to be on guard against a President whose attachment to constitutional norms seems episodic at best.

How do you fight an enemy whos just kidding?

A rogue group of conservative thinkers tries to build a governing ideology around a President-elect who disdains ideology.

Inside a stunned White House, the President considers his legacy and Americas future.

The electorate has, in its plurality, decided to live in Trumps world of vanity, hate, arrogance, untruth, and recklessness.

West Virginia used to vote solidly Democratic. Now it belongs to Trump. What happened?

His campaign tells us a lot about what kind of Commander-in-Chief he would be.

Our reporters and fact-checkers have been working on a series of reported essays about the scale and depth of Donald Trumps lies.

How the patrician couple came to have an outsized influence on a populist Presidential campaign.

Obama used the power of the pen to make policy. What would Trump do?

The Art of the Deal made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that mythand regrets it.

To call the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee a fascist of some variety is simply to use a historical label that fits.

At the candidates rallies, a new understanding of America emerges.

As Republicans struggle over whether to resist the candidate or to capitulate, they also face the Partys biggest ideological crisis in fifty years.

Melania Trump is the exception to her husbands nativist politics.

By stoking paranoia about immigration, he has found a following among far-right extremists.

How has this coddled scion of a New York real-estate baron emerged as a populist hero?

Why a celebrity proto-fascist with no impulse control is winning over the white working class.

Insiders loathe them; voters love them. Who will decide the future of the G.O.P.?

After writing a book about Benito Mussolini last year, an N.Y.U. professor began noticing the similarities between her books subject and Trump.

An exceptional nation would have better reflexes than this, would recognize the communicable nature of fear more quickly, would rally its immune defense more efficiently.

Trump clearly believes he can win the state, and he told his supporters that he was also going to win the election.

Donald Trump behaves exactly how you would expect an American fascist to act.

Despite his frequent lies, polls show that Americans view Trump as more honest than Hillary Clinton.

Clinton supporters point to James Comey, the media, and sexism to explain the latest poll numbers. Theyre onto something, but theyre missing the bigger story.

Republicans have long used Presidential debates to show their support for the government program. Add this to the list of norms that Trump has broken.

In 2012, Corey Robins The Reactionary Mind recognized the philosophical affinities that would lead to the Republican embrace of Donald Trump in 2016.

At the opening of his new D.C. hotel, Trump professed an optimism that has been absent on the campaign trail.

If Trump believed that he still had a realistic shot at winning, Wednesday nights debate was his opportunity to act Presidential. He didnt.

Trump doesn't need to be a puppet of Putin to be a dangerous President. It is enough that he seeks to emulate his authoritarianism.

At a rally in western Colorado, the candidate prepares his followers to give up without giving in.

But it would be a mistake to think of Hillary Clintons strong performance as a blowout.

If news cycles were driven by issues of import, rather than what's new, Trump University would never leave the headlines.

If Trump was just cynically catering to the nativist right during the primaries, by now he would have integrated some mainstream Republican thinking into his position on immigration.

The truth, of course, is that the old Trump can read the polls, and he knows hes headed for a heavy and ignominious defeat.

If Trump continues to stonewall, its clear that hes doing so because thats his choice, not his legal obligation.

Trumps implication that gun owners might attack Hillary Clinton if she is elected President was irresponsible in more than just the obvious ways.

The attraction is mutual, but history shows whos really using whom.

At his wedding to Melania, Trumps high status in the tabloids and on TV was clearly respected by everyone.

Trump badly but predictably underestimated the parents of a Muslim Army captain who died serving the United States in Iraq.

Trumps latest disruption of American politics at the highest level has stunned academics. But will the country care?

One of Trumps most trusted sources for news trades heavily on wild conspiracy theories. Does he actually believe any of them?

After the tragedy in Florida, it feels indecent to acknowledge Trumps commentsbut their sheer ugliness reflects his empty character and the campaign to come.

It was once possible to laugh at Donald Trumps obsessions without worrying that he might actually impose them on the country.

Donald Trumps statements say more about his disregard for the rule of law than they do about Hillary Clinton or her e-mail server.

But will it be the candidates undoing?

The candidate says he plans to make a strong showing among Midwestern voters, but the numbers dont add up.

Donald Trumps harangues about the media, and reports of a third-party challenge from a political neophyte, made for a bizarre twenty-four hours.

His statements on the function of the judiciary reveal ignorance about how the Supreme Court works and a total absence of legal philosophy.

If Trump came to power, there is a decent chance that the American experiment would be over.

It will be debated for years, but any convincing explanation must acknowledge his talents as a demagogue and pugilist.

Cruz spent most of his time in Indiana arguing that Trump and Hillary Clinton were indistinguishable. The results point to the political, and the logical, weaknesses of this argument.

Thanks to some good old-fashioned reporting, we now have an idea of how little cash Trump has given away.

His Dadaist political exercises, designed to shock and command attention, have revealed the hypocrisies of the political class.

The insurgent candidates have run campaigns that seem tailored to the preferences of people who dont normally go to the polls.

Few Latinos are supporting Trump. But one pro-Trump voter, John Castillo, explains his position.

When political parties fail to stop alarming candidates.

Trumps rise isnt just about his political incorrectness and independence.

The message is that Trumps hate, his xenophobia and bigotry, its all a thousand per cent on purpose.

In a Profile written nearly two decades before his Presidential run, Trump was already contemplating how to present himself as a "doer and dealmaker."

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