From the personal notebooks of Christine Seymour, longtime switchboard operator in the office of Roy Cohn

Ruy Teixeira, architect of Democratic reliance on the Hispanic vote, on reshaping a generation of liberal strategy

Bruce Bartlett, a veteran of the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, on the moderate conservatives' case for Trump

What Herman Cain sees in Ben Carson

Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide whose admission brought down a presidency, has a message for Trump staffers

Dissecting the attraction to the white working class with Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People

Jeremy Pikser, co-writer of the Warren Beatty comedy Bulworth, evaluates Donald Trump as an entertainer

A weekly conversation on politics and culture with New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich

From Jill Abramson to Tony Schwartz to Larry Wilmore, 13 predictions on how the Trump presidency ends (or doesn't)

Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler, on the explanatory power of pre-election Hitler analogies

Andrew Heyward, former president of CBS News, on television without anchors