The Republican front-runner is tapping the resentments of white working-class voters—and promising to use federal power to address them.
They can back Trump, or run a candidate of their own—but either way, they’ll bring this era of American politics to a close.
Donald Trump’s language is eerily similar to the 1920s Ku Klux Klan—hypernationalistic and anti-immigrant.
Donald Trump is by far the most gifted performer in the presidential field, and by far the least-informed.
Far from transforming the party, the businessman is drawing his support from its current ranks, by appealing to blue-collar voters.
Former rivals find common ground by suggesting that in politics, people and events aren’t always what they seem.
A campaign spokesman’s proposal for strategic voting in Ohio and Florida was quickly rejected by John Kasich’s campaign.
Corey Lewandowski has denied accusations that he grabbed Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, bruising her, but she has filed a police report.
Faced with a stiff challenge from Bernie Sanders in the Rust Belt, the Democratic front-runner works to run up her margin among black voters in the South.
The Vermont senator is connecting his economic policies to the concerns of the Hispanic community. The former secretary of state is just plain connecting. Whose message will work?
Thursday night’s debate pitted a front-runner offering attractive generalities against a field serving up unpopular specifics.
An undercurrent of violence courses through Trump’s events and speeches. In North Carolina, it erupted into the open.
Nominating Trump is better than a brokered convention. The fighting so far is nothing compared with tempers unleashed on a convention floor.
Their success won’t pose a threat to working class-whites; it’s their failure that would hurt society.
In a city defined by Hispanic culture and at risk of disappearing under rising seas, the Democrats’ debate in Miami tackled immigration and climate change—and the candidates faced their toughest questions yet.
Incarcerated people voted in primaries in Vermont, Puerto Rico, and Maine. Why can’t they vote anywhere else?
The Democratic presidential candidate invokes a term popular with younger voters—but what does she mean by it?