Political Fictions is a 2001 book of essays by Joan Didion on the American political process. In it, Didion records the election of George H. W. Bush and his defeat by Bill Clinton, the Republican takeover of Congress in the 1994 elections, Clinton's impeachment, and the 2000 race between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The collection includes three essays previously published as the "Washington" section of After Henry written for The New York Review of Books between October 1988 and October 2000.