The US election as witnessed by 25 reporters in 23 countries.

The perils of voting in the modern age.

Barack Obama wanted to endorse gay marriage on his own timetable. Joe Biden had other plans.

He’d blown the Denver debate. Now he was on the verge of blowing the second and risking his reelection. “I just don’t know if I can do this,” Obama told his team. The story of how they turned things around, excerpted from Double Down: Game Change 2012.

How Jeffrey Katzenberg became the Democrats’ kingmaker.

The GOP’s younger generation confronts its future.

How Republicans came to be the party of white people.

A dispatch from The National Review’s post-election cruise.

A postmortem.

The activists, politicians, and social trends that led to 2012’s gay marriage victories.

On Politico’s brand of insider journalism.

A profile of Montana Senator Jon Tester.

A tale-of-the-tape breakdown of the 2012 presidential debates.

The dark art of presidential debate prep.

A profile of the vice president.

On Mitt Romney’s top strategist—a steroid-dabbling, screenwriting bon vivant.

A profile of Univision’s Jorge Ramos.

A profile of Ron Paul.

Taking the measure of the president, with a view to history.

An interview with the former president about the upcoming election and American consensus.

On Mitt Romney and company.

A profile of Rick Santorum published early in his final campaign for the U.S. Senate, a race widely considered a stepping stone to the White House before he lost.

A suburban dad. A fictional television blowhard. And now a political money launderer. How one funny guy became three.

Whoever wants to enchant America’s conservative base as well as independents looking for a steady hand amid economic upheaval must try to grasp what has carried Cain this far — what not only shields him from spectacular attempts at self-immolation but also, with each incident, seems to make him stronger. Why, with this candidate, do the laws of physics seem not to apply?

On the politics of North Carolina.