Supporters of presidential candidate Al Gore protest during George W. Bush’s inauguration in January 2001. Gore won the popular vote but lost to Bush in the Electoral College.
Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
With two of the past five presidential election winners losing the popular vote, it’s hard to justify the continuation of the Electoral College.
Accepting grief is important for moving toward hope.
Shanon Wise
After Donald Trump’s victory, a scholar says the biblical prophets can help show us the way forward: Just as there is no peace without justice, there is no healing without grief.
Protesting against laws limiting access to abortions.
EPA/Shawn Thew
Recent Supreme Court rulings played a crucial role in the cultural politics that got Donald Trump elected.
Australian businesses should learn from the example of Brexit and wait to act.
Toby Melville/Reuters
Australian businesses should wait and rethink long term strategies in response to Trump’s election in the US.
Voting for what’s best for them?
Erik S. Lesser/EPA
It’s time to reconsider economists’ idea of rationality in the wake of Trump’s election.
EPA/Erik S. Lesser
China may have more to gain from Trump’s rise than any other nation – but the risks of a miscalculation are enormous.
Taking every opportunity.
EPA/Christophe Karaba
The Front National leader is feeling confident after Brexit and Trump.
Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/EPA
Do these tumultuous times also mean the end of Bond as we know it?
EPA/Ernesto Arias
Trade bashing is a well-established practice among US presidential candidates. The difference with Trump is that he may actually deliver on his rhetoric.
I’m building a golf course, a beautiful golf course, and I will make Scotland pay for it.
Andrew Milligan/PA
Can concern for the environment survive in the age of Trump and Brexit?
Toby Melville/Reuters
Diplomacy between Europe and Trump’s administration will be tricky, but not impossible.
Though daunting, the challenge of a Trump presidency is pregnant with possibilities.
EPA/SHAWN THEW
The outcome of this election may depend more on what we make of it than on what Trump and his advisers intend. Though daunting, the challenge is pregnant with possibilities.
Had US Senator Elizabeth Warren (left) been the Democratic candidate, she might be president by now.
Reuters/Carlos Barria
If there been an alternative feminist candidate, with a different, more disruptive agenda, we would have a feminist president.
Donald Trump and Barack Obama meet for the first time.
Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
The election of Donald Trump has awoken a streak of authoritarianism in America that is incompatible with it leading with liberal democratic ideals.
News of Trump’s election has had a deep impact on global climate talks now going on.
IISD/ENB | Liz Rubin
Memo To Marrakech: If the U.S. drops the mantle of global leadership on climate, here are the rest of the world’s options on how to react.
Michael Hogan
The US election confirmed the death of an extraordinary economic era. Now, control of the next must be wrested from the emboldened nationalists.
Nivaldo Pereira
Donald Trump doesn’t represent as much uncertainty for markets as you might think.
Delegates in Marrakech are hoping the winds of change in Washington don’t blow climate action off course.
EPA/Mohamed Messara
The halls of the Marrakech climate summit have been filled with fearful talk about Donald Trump’s presidency. But there is hope that the Paris climate treaty can weather the political storm.
Jerry Falwell Jr. at the 2016 Republican convention.
EPA/Shawn Thew
The US religious right has voted for someone who apparently contravenes some of its core values.
Clinton: crucified by the religious right?
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Want to know why Hillary isn’t president? Just turn to the Bible.