Allen Abel

Trump goes to Pennsylvania—home of America’s worst-ever president—for a foggy night of ranting

Allen Abel travels to Donald Trump’s hometown to check in on the state of the campaign

From 2016: Discrimination isn’t ancient history. A Washington museum shows the truth of that.

Trump and Clinton smudged facts and hurled insults that will live for decades in the encyclopedias of political mudslinging

Allen Abel on the candidates hoping to find a sweet spot with an unhappy electorate. They won’t win, but could steal enough votes to be dangerous.

A VP candidate is rarely important. But after Hillary Clinton’s health troubles, Tim Kaine suddenly is.

Ordinary Americans explain why they plan to vote for Donald Trump on Nov. 8

Forget Clinton’s pneumonia. Many U.S. presidents have had serious illnesses, from Eisenhower’s heart attack to Johnson’s gall bladder surgery

How the protest generation of the ’60s left behind division, violence—and Trump and Clinton

On the final day of the DNC, Allen Abel crosses the Delaware to the home of Walt Whitman, the poet who once asked ’Who are you who would talk or sing to America?’