This post consists of some of my selected readings from the week before the 2016 presidential election, the week of the election, and the week after the election. Because of the sheer number and magnitude of events that took place during this short yet tumultuous period, I don’t have the time to share all of my thoughts on the individual readings. However, I am sharing them here nonetheless as a reference.

Week of October 30 – November 5 (Pre-Election Week)

• The GOP’s Age of Authoritarianism Has Only Begun by Jonathan Chait (New York Magazine)
• I can’t vote. If you can, you must by Chelsea E Manning (The Guardian)
• Assad in Person: Confident, Friendly, No Regrets by Anne Barnard (The New York Times)
• The Khizr Khan Voters by Wajahat Ali (The New York Times)
• FT endorsement: For all her weaknesses, Clinton is the best hope by Financial Times Editorial Board (Financial Times)
• Judge to OK deal over police surveillance if changes made by Larry Neumeister (Salon)
• Immigrants Are Keeping America Young – And The Economy Growing by Ben Casselman (Five Thirty Eight)
• The sectarianization of Syria and smearing a revolution by Leila al-Shami (The New Arab)
• Ranked: ‘Trumps’ ‘Round the World by Matt Peterson (The Atlantic)
• WikiLeaks Isn’t Whistleblowing by Zeynep Tufekci (The New York Times)
• Beyond Lying: Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Reality by Jason Stanley (The New York Times)
• The Voter Fraud Lie We Can’t Shake by Dale Ho (The New York Times)
• Paris Climate Change Agreement Enters Into Force by Fiona Harvey (The Guardian)
• Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded by the Dalai Lama (The New York Times)
• National Geographic’s Afghan Girl Becomes Face Of Plight of Afghan Refugees In Pakistan by Frud Bezhan (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
• Why Israel Still Refuses to Choose by Roger Cohen (The New York Times)

Week of November 6 – November 12 (Election Week)

• Imagining America on Nov. 9 by The New York Times Editorial Board (The New York Times)
• American democracy’s gravest trial by Edward Luce (Financial Times)
• FBI questioned American Muslims in 8 states over weekend about possible pre-election terrorism, says civil rights group by Katie Mettler (The Washington Post)
• This Time, Hamas Doesn’t Endorse by Sheera Frenkel and Ben Smith (Buzzfeed)
• Afghanistan Itself Is Now Taking In the Most Afghan Migrants by Rod Nordland (The New York Times)
• Misogyny Was Enough to Tarnish Donald Trump – But Neo-Nazism Wasn’t? by Lisa Goldman (The Forward)
• How to Rig an Election by Paul Krugman (The New York Times)
• This Time, There Really Is a Hispanic Voter Surge by Nate Cohn (The New York Times)
• Donald Trump Has Shattered Campaign Norms In Damaging, Potentially Lasting Ways by Sam Stein (Huffington Post)
• The Real Voter Fraud by David Leonhardt (The New York Times)
• Donald Trump is moving to the White House, and liberals put him there by Thomas Frank (The Guardian)
• Trump’s America, Hiding In Plain Sight by Evan Osnos (The New Yorker)
• America Elects a Bigot by Charles M. Blow (The New York Times)
• Clinton aides blame loss on everything but themselves by Annie Karni (Politico)
• Trump won because college-educated Americans are out of touch by  Charles Camosy (The Washington Post)
• Online, Everything Is Alternative Media by John Herrman (The New York Times)
• Trump’s Revenge by McKay Coppins (Buzzfeed)
• Obama has handed a surveillance state and war machine to a maniac by Trevor Timm (The Guardian)
• A primer on executive power: Trump can’t end same-sex marriages, but he could speed up deportations by David Lauter (LA Times)
• Grappling With the Language of Love by Emily Robbins (The New York Times)
• Bernie Sanders: Where the Democrats Go From Here by Bernie Sanders (The New York Times)
• “Hitler’s only kidding about the antisemitism” New York Times, 1922 by boing (Boingboing)
• After Trump, Fear and Gloating In Pakistan by Mohammed Hanif (The New York Times)
• After Trump Win, Parallel Path Is Seen for Marine La Pen of France’s Far-Right by Adam Nossiter (The New York Times)
• After Brexit and Trump, Populists Target Next Dominoes In Europe by John Follain (Bloomberg)
• Autocracy: Rules for Survival by Maha Gessen (New York Review of Books)
• The Myth of Female Solidarity by Susan Chira (The New York Times)
• A Time for Refusal by Teju Cole (The New York Times)
• The Alt-Right Hails Its Victorious God-Emperor by Andrew Marantz (The New Yorker)
• The Alt-Right is Modernizing White Supremacy – And Trump is Helping by Sam Kestenbaum (The Forward)

Week of November 13 – November 19 (Post-Election Week)

• Stay angry. That’s the only way to uphold principles in Trump’s America by Leon Wieseltier (The Washington Post)
• Stephen Bannon and Reince Priebus to lead Trump’s White House by Alan Yuhas (The Guardian)
• Citizens, United by Jonathan Chait (New York Magazine)
• Lies In the Guise of News In the Trump Era by Nicholas Kristof (The New York Times)
• Donald Trump’s Long To-Do List for Day 1 by Michael D. Shear (The New York Times)
• What Normalization Means by Hua Hsu (The New Yorker)
• Who Believed In Trump, And Who Is To Blame by Benjamin Wallace-Wells (The New Yorker)
• Obama Reckons With a Trump Presidency by David Remnick (The New Yorker)
• The Incendiary Appeal of Demagoguery In Our Time by Pinkaj Mishra (The New York Times)
• The ACLU Is Receiving An Outpouring of Support. Here’s What We Plan on Doing With It. by Anthony D. Romero (ACLU Blog)
• Research says there are ways to reduce racial bias. Calling people racist isn’t one of them. by German Lopez (VOX)
• Facebook’s Damage to Democracy by David Leonhardt (The New York Times)
• Blame Trump’s Victory on College-Educated Whites, Not the Working Class by Eric Sasson (The New Republic)
• How the Iranian-Saudi Proxy Struggle Tore Apart the Middle East by Max Fisher (The New York Times
• Living in Trump’s Soviet Union by Gary Shteyngart (The New Yorker)
• George Takei: They interned my family. Don’t let them do it to Muslims. by George Takei (The Washington Post)

This is it for now.