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Joe Biden delivers remarks on election night as seen on a screen in Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington.

The Transition: The Biden team wastes no time

By Katherine Tully-McManus, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell
Posted November 9, 2020 at 5:41pm
Protesters calling for every vote to be counted march Friday from McPherson Square to Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington.

The Transition: The tipping point

By Jason Dick, Evan Campbell and Joanne Levine
Posted November 6, 2020 at 5:10pm
“I Voted” stickers sit on a table Tuesday at Alumni Hall at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

The Transition: Release the Trump campaign lawsuits!

By Jason Dick, Evan Campbell and Todd Ruger
Posted November 5, 2020 at 5:11pm
An activist stands at the Columbus Fountain in front of Union Station in Washington on Wednesday, as people gathered to protest President Donald Trump’s premature declaration of victory.

The 2020 election is a postmodern novel: no ending, unreliable narrators

By Jason Dick
Posted November 4, 2020 at 5:15pm
What could go wrong with Election Day and its aftermath? Plenty. Political Theater outlines the worst-case scenarios.

Just in time for Halloween: Worst-case scenarios for the election

By Jason Dick and Jinitzail Hernández
Posted October 29, 2020 at 9:50am
Iowa is playing host to competitive House races, a tight Senate contest and a close presidential election this year.

Brent Roske, ‘Iowa’s political bartender,’ talks Hawkeye State races

By Jason Dick and Jinitzail Hernández
Posted October 22, 2020 at 3:33pm
A D.C. voter uses a mail-in-ballot drop box at the Northeast Neighborhood Library in Washington on Oct. 5.

Lo-tech crashes hi-tech political campaign tactics

By Jason Dick
Posted October 15, 2020 at 1:11pm
Vice President Joe Biden and Speaker Paul Ryan conduct a count of the Electoral College votes during a joint session of Congress in the House chamber on Jan. 6, 2017.

The odd, hybrid world of the vice presidency

By Jason Dick
Posted October 8, 2020 at 5:29pm
Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett, center, arrives at the Capitol on Wednesday for Day Two of her meetings with senators.

How this Supreme Court fight will be very different

By Jason Dick
Posted September 30, 2020 at 9:57pm
The current Supreme Court nomination debate is set to roil Maine Sen. Susan Collins’ reelection race, just as the 2018 high court fight already had.

Supreme Court fight scrambles Senate schedule, campaigns

By Jason Dick
Posted September 23, 2020 at 6:45pm