Country vs. city: In our often-frustrating electoral system, urban areas have more people, but rural places have more political power. And last week, rural voters picked a candidate who will not help them prosper. Henry Grabar tries to understand.
It’s all happening: Donald Trump’s choice of Stephen Bannon to be his chief strategist and senior counselor shows that the candidate’s sideways embrace of alt-right white nationalism during the election was no fluke, Jamelle Bouie writes. Those same values are coming with him to the White House.
Not what you think it means: Trump’s election has proven that people in the United States interpret the word “racist” to signify wildly different things, Dan Engber writes.
A fledgling hope: A group of children that’s suing the government to stop climate change just won approval to move ahead in the courts. This feels major, Eric Holthaus writes. In the age of Trump, legal action may be one of the only tools we have to stop climate disaster.
R.I.P.: Beloved journalist Gwen Ifill died on Monday. John Dickerson, her friend and colleague, pays tribute.
For fun: Put a pecan pie on your pumpkin pie.
Do it,
Rebecca