It seems the only people gaining out of all this outside of Trump tower are the political cartoon satiricists and the New York Times subscription which has jumped 30% since the election.

With essays by Toni Morrison, Atul Gawande, Hilary Mantel, George Packer, Jane Mayer, Jeffrey Toobin, Junot Díaz, and more.

• George Packer on the Democratic opposition
• Atul Gawande on Obamacare’s future
• Hilary Mantel on the unseen
• Peter Hessler on the rural vote
• Toni Morrison on whiteness
• Jane Mayer on climate-change denial
• Evan Osnos on the Schwarzenegger precedent
• Jeffrey Toobin on the Supreme Court
• Mary Karr on the language of bullying
• Jill Lepore on a fractured nation
• Gary Shteyngart on life in dystopia
• Nicholas Lemann on the Wall Street factor
• Larry Wilmore on the birtherism of a nation
• Jia Tolentino on the protests
• Mark Singer on Trump the actor
• Junot Díaz on Radical Resilience