Trump's brand was built on disruption and the force of his own personality. Even through a quiet period, that disruption is set to continue into at least 2021 and 2022.

As President Joe Biden heads into another week in office, his message of unity may not pan-out the way he hoped.

It will always be instructive to watch the progressive react to President Joe Biden.

President Joe Biden is operating in a rare political sweet spot. Now he wants to cut some deals.

Whether Joe Biden can govern the way he has promised -- despite or even because of all the challenges -- could determine the health of the nation in more ways than one.

The political divides so evident at this moment are likely to enhance the difficulties President-elect Joe Biden will face.

The hope is that addressing the pandemic through fast, bold action will lead to a broader national healing.

President Donald Trump made the party his own -- and it’s still his as this week closes, despite signs that it’s slipping from his grips.

President Donald Trump was impeached for the second time. That may cause challenges for Biden at the beginning of his presidency.

President Donald Trump is about to become the first president to be impeached twice. The second one will almost certainly be the one that matters the most.

Vice President Pence appears stuck where so many Republicans are at the moment, after having reached the limits of his loyalty to President Trump.

The president will almost certainly be impeached again by the House early this week.

President Donald Trump effectively broke the Republican Party before making it his own. It won't be nearly so easy for Republicans to break Trumpism.

Until Wednesday, there seemed to be little cost to Republicans indulging Trump.

The final public act of the post-election spectacle will mark just a starting point for the broader debate over the future of the Republican Party.

Tuesday's races will determine control of the Senate for the first half of Biden’s first term.

It’s going to take at least the first full week of 2021 to settle some of 2020’s highest-profile political business.

Washington heads into the holidays with some of the best news it’s been able to deliver in some time.

The president-elect continues to face pressure from Democrats.

Harris will be a key figure in convincing communities of color to trust the COVID-19 vaccine.

Final defeat of President Donald Trump won’t bring the kind of victory President-elect Joe Biden really wants.

Trump looms large over the future of the Republican Party. But his interests and those of his party are already diverging.

President Donald Trump's term is destined to end with falsehoods about the election he lost, distilled into a final plea to the Supreme Court.

President Donald Trump is defeated but not changed. The same may not hold for the Republican Party, which he has become used to dominating.

Intra-party rumblings about diversity and experience are more than background noise as President-elect Joe Biden builds out his governing team.

President Donald Trump will host what's billed as a "vaccine summit" at the White House on Tuesday, just days before the FDA holds its first hearing on a COVID-19 vaccine

The process that so many Republicans have been saying they want to play out is rather thoroughly exhausted already.

With action heating up in Georgia's run-off races, the contradictions the president is leaving Republicans to sort out will be more urgent than ever.

If a coronavirus deal does come together, it’s more than possible that President-elect Joe Biden has more to do with it than President Donald Trump.

To not believe Trump and his lawyers is to potentially sacrifice your future in the Republican Party -- and maybe a whole lot more.

President-elect Joe Biden is rolling out a team meant not to inspire so much as bring confidence. But they're out of power another seven weeks amid a spiraling pandemic.

What Trump is pleading for is as improbable as it is breathtaking.

Trump's post-election legal, political efforts are testing the foundations of democracy, flirting with dangerous forces that appear increasingly likely to undermine Biden

A cascading series of deadlines will almost certainly lead to Biden becoming president on Jan. 20, whether Trump admits it or not.

From here, if the president and his legal team want to hold out, it could get lonely as well as costly.

President-elect Joe Biden is making clear that he wants President Donald Trump's help with the transition.

The president’s refusal to acknowledge that he lost the election has now extended into a second full week, and now come warnings of more significant consequences.

Joe Biden continues to appear unbothered by the noise. That, in a way, was his appeal from the start.

Nine days after voting ended, it’s clear that the election could take a while to wind down. President Donald Trump continues to hope as Georgia issues a recount.

While Biden may have more reason than most to be offended by the behavior of Trump and some Republicans, he isn't sounding particularly concerned about the hold-up.

As the Biden administration prepares for the transition, all eyes are on the Georgia Senate runoff races.

Biden’s efforts to heal divisions face complications from fast-moving events.

Friday dawns with no new states having been projected, after a day marked by tension and occasional disbelief.

An election that held out hope of clarity and unity might not wind up being particularly close, but it will be remembered as more complicated than it might have been.

There was no wave, there was no finality, and the “blue wall” looked shakier than ever. But there is even more than that at stake now.

It's a referendum on Trump, who has dominated the national conversation for four-plus years. Of course, even that doesn't guarantee a clean verdict or a drama-free ending

The ultimate disruptor needs one last shocker in order to succeed at the polls.

Voters are voting -- smashing records, adjusting behaviors and recalibrating expectations -- in ways that show the nation is many things but definitely not apathetic.

After the election, the images of the closing days of this election will be held out as evidence that of course things would turn out they way they did.

The president is 20 points underwater on his handling of the pandemic in Wisconsin and Biden is trusted more than Trump on the subject by a similar 20 points.