Campaign trends and election law

1. Election laws, redistricting, campaign financing, corporate fundraising. Cash and constituency: campaign financing and partisan electoral manipulation

Drawing the line: how redistricting turned America from blue to red / Elizabeth Kolbert

What is political "dark money"

and is it bad? /

Michael Beckel

How "ghost corporations" are funding the 2016 election / Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy

Why redistricting threatens democracy / John Nichols

Voting rights become a proxy war in the 2016 presidential election / Frank Askin

How Citizens United has changed politics in 5 years / Gabrielle Levy

The many sins of "Citizens United" / Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

The first postmodern political machine / Walter Russell Mead

2. Election laws, redistricting, campaign financing, corporate fundraising. Political outsiders: class, race, and gender in the 2016 election

The woman card: how feminism and antifeminism created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump / Jill Lepore

Working-class heroes: the 2016 election shows that, when talking about class, Americans and their candidates are both out of practice / Jelani Cobb

Outsiders' chance / The Economist

Class, Trump, and the election / Victor David Hanson

Race, class, and the 2016 election / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

The great Republican revolt / David Frum

Trump's America / Charles Murray

Identity heft: why the politics of race and gender are dominating the 2016 election / Jeet Heer

The populists / George Packer

3. Campaign issues: immigration, trade, the economy. Identity and economics: immigration and globalization in the 2016 race

The truth about trade: what critics get wrong about the global economy / Douglas A. Irwin

Immigration and the 2016 election / Victor Agbafe

Even conservatives say Trump's immigration plan is dystopian / Issie Lapowsky

Supreme Court's split elevates immigration as election issue / Mike Dorning

Simmering for decades, anger about trade boils over in '16 election / Binyamin Appelbaum

Why the conditions were perfect for Bernie's socialist crusade / Robert Kuttner

Election 2016 is propelled by the American economy's failed promises / Jon Hilsenrath and Bob Davis

4. Campaign messaging: language, social media, video. News and information in the 2016 campaign

The rhetorical brilliance of Trump the demagogue / Jennifer Mercieca

Who's influencing election 2016? / William Powers

Here's how social media will impact the 2016 presidential election / Rohan Ayyar

2016 presidential election circus: is social media the cause? / Marissa Lang

Digital video plays critical role in 2016 election / Philip Rosenstein

Foul-mouthed and proud of it on the '16 campaign trail / Matt Flegenheimer and Maggie Haberman

What Google and Twitter can tell us about 2016 / Daniel White

Facebook to provide "political bias" training for employees / Rob Bluey

The polls are all wrong: a startup called Civis is our best hope to fix them / Garrett M. Graff.