Jami Colich News Today

The 'Gish gallop' is the rhetorical equivalent of music's wall of sound — it drowns out facts and reason. Donald Trump and RFK Jr. excel at it.

Cecil J. Williams, a freelance photographer, documented Jim Crow segregation and civil rights demonstrations in his home state of South Carolina. Voters formed another central focus of our campaign coverage — talking to them, getting a sense of what was on their minds during this historic year. The COVID-19 pandemic made that part of campaign reporting more complicated this year, but despite that, Times reporters delivered memorable stories that accurately presaged how key segments of the ele...