No, You Stole the Election! (Part 1)

Claims that a US election was rigged, fraudulent, illegitimate, or stolen are not new. But in recent years—despite the fact that our elections have grown increasingly secure—these claims have grown louder and more impassioned. Today, we begin our look back on past claims of stolen elections in American history, in the hopes that understanding them in their context will help shed light on our current political moment—and where we might be headed next.

In this first installment, we speak to Megan McArdle, former writer for the Atlantic and current columnist at the Washington Post, about...