The Obama-Romney race in 2012 was the last in a familiar pattern in U.S. politics, which has since become defined by Donald Trump’s conservative populism.

President-elect Donald Trump promised mass deportation on the campaign trail, and while the scale of it remains vague, the elements of the plan are an unlikely call back to former President Barack Obama who was billed the “deporter-in-chief” by Democrats and immigrant advocates.

Van Jones said the president-elect "is not an idiot," crediting his success, in part, to his "massive media ecosystem."

President-elect Donald Trump has surpassed former President Barack Obama as a successful president and leader.

At the Atlantic, Russell Burman details this reasoning in his new article “Maybe Democrats Didn’t Do So Badly After All ”: Now a clearer picture of the election has emerged, complicating the debate over whether Democrats need to reinvent themselves—and whether voters really abandoned them at all.

NBC National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki detailed Sunday the divide in voter demographics between President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President

Trump’s popularity has climbed, though he's still less popular than former Presidents Biden, Obama, Bush and Clinton were at this point in their transitions.

President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar pick Tom Homan ... the elements of the plan are an unlikely call back to former President Barack Obama who was billed the “deporter-in-chief ...

The possibility that the United States could assume powers that violate the sovereignty of its southern neighbor forebodes a period of extraordinary tension in the bilateral relationship

From the good and the bad, from marriage equality, decriminalization of queer sex, and groundbreaking electoral victories to the Pulse massacre and the unfortunate election of Donald Trump to the presidency — twice — here are the biggest queer news events of the first quarter of the 21st century.

A returning president who expects to govern without constraints leaves his opponents hoping to benefit from the blowback.