Lies often win even if debunked.

Excellent fact-checking here.

Great analysis of the speech - only piece about it that I could bear to read.

OSCE/ODIHR hitting the mark.

A brutal analysis.

Trump's biographers reflect.

Today's must-read.

Indeed.

Tom Carothers of @CarnegieEndow is not too gloomy.

Well worth reading.

Fascinating charts.

An alarming analysis.

Wow.

Ohdearwhatapitynevermind

Grim.

Or is it overanalysing?

Expert diagnosis.

by @rozkaveney, @PennyRed, @scalzi and @bluejowalton.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Obama's presidency.

Another post-mortem.

Yet another in depth campaign post mortem.

More on the growth of inequality in the USA.

Would be interested to see this methodology applied elsewhere.

Ian Buruma - long but well worth reading.

A Republican elector writes.

A Harding retrospective.

What will Trump build?

He doesn't know what he doesn't know.

Chilling.

Worrying reading.