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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Was Donald Trump Really Against the Iraq War?
Trump’s prescient opposition to the invasion is an important part of his claim to sound judgment. And he is making it up. I would know.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Republican Party's Internecine Fights Spill Into the Open
On Saturday, the GOP dispensed with concern about keeping up appearances—and put long-simmering anger on display.
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Susan Walsh / AP The 'New Look' of the Post-Obama Electorate
African Americans are converging around an abundance of issues, wanting to be heard and employing new strategies to achieve it.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Heretical Donald Trump
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Heresies of Donald Trump
The Republican frontrunner repudiated a long litany of party orthodoxies in a contentious debate—but will that hurt his candidacy, or help it?
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Craig Fritz / AP Justice Scalia's Outsized Legacy
A passionate, complex conservative, Scalia forever changed how Americans think about original intent. Both liberals and conservatives now play by Scalia’s rules.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Why Ted Cruz's Preemptive Rejection of a Supreme Court Nominee Is Illegitimate
The GOP presidential candidate—and at least two of his rivals—are acting as if the meaning of the Constitution changes depending on the timing of the next election.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters The Republicans Rumble in South Carolina
The GOP field is down to six ahead of Saturday’s debate in Greenville, as Marco Rubio tries to rebound from his debacle in New Hampshire.
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Dave Kaup / Reuters Marco Rubio's Extreme Tax Plan
Though the senator may be running as a moderate, his proposal is anything but.
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Matt Rourke / AP Clinton the Consummate Insider
Many think Hillary Clinton was a onetime leftist radical who morphed into a centrist to gain power. But Clinton has always been a true incrementalist and compromiser—with little time for revolutionaries.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters A Defeat for Conservative Feminism
Carly Fiorina’s exit from the 2016 race could stifle debate over gender equality across the political spectrum.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Divergent Fates of Christie and Kasich
There was only room for one moderate, sitting governor telling it like it is.
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Randall Hill / Reuters The Unexpected Breadth of Donald Trump's Appeal
In New Hampshire, he won working class men without college diplomas—and most every other demographic group.
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Win McNamee / Getty Debate Night Pits Judgment Against Experience
Deprived of major differences, the Democratic candidates retreated to familiar mantras, asking the American public to decide between idealism and realism.
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Matt Rourke / AP Can Hillary Clinton Convince Voters They're Not Settling?
The former secretary of state will have to shift her strategy as she faces her surging Democratic rival, Bernie Sanders.
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Jim Cole / AP Sanders, Trump, and the War Over American Exceptionalism
The two insurgents want to take America in radically different directions—with Donald Trump looking to keep the world out and Bernie Sanders looking to bring it in.
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David Goldman / AP Carly Fiorina Drops Out
After a seventh-place finish in New Hampshire, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO is done.
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David Goldman / AP Trump's Two Victories in New Hampshire
He bridged traditional GOP divides, while his opponents have not yet displayed broad appeal.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters Democracy Won in New Hampshire
Everything that was supposed to be silenced is suddenly being said.
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Susan Walsh / AP Trump’s Unspeakable Strategy to Erase His Past
Why Donald Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric was enough for movement conservatives to forgive his history of liberalism.
