Bernie Sanders's single-payer plan isn't a plan at all  —  Sanders's long-awaited health care plan is, by turns, vague and unrealistic.  —  Hillary Clinton has made a lot of bad arguments about Bernie Sanders's support for single-payer.  But her best argument was her simplest …

Trump bungles Bible reference at Liberty University  —  Donald Trump, speaking to a religious crowd at Virginia's Liberty University on Monday, turned to scripture.  —  “We're going to protect Christianity.  I can say that.  I don't have to be politically correct,” he said.

Donald Trump's Epic Weekend Meltdown  —  Maybe Donald Trump needs some of that “free” mental healthcare that the Democrats were talking about last night.  —  If you are like most ordinary Americans, you probably spent the weekend watching the NFL playoffs, or spending time with your family …

Exclusive: Chris Christie Calls Ted Cruz ‘Asinine’ For New York Values Smear  —  He also calls Cruz a ‘Washington insider’  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is none too pleased with rival Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's criticism of “New York values.”  —  In an interview with TIME in Iowa Sunday …

Portland Community College to devote an entire month to 'whiteness'-shaming  — The school says the month is an “educational project” exploring how the “construct of whiteness” creates racial inequality.  —  Portland Community College has designated April “Whiteness History Month” (WHM) …

When Peace Breaks Out With Iran...  This has been the most dramatic week in US/Iranian relations since 1979.  —  Last weekend ten US Navy personnel were caught in Iranian waters, as the Pentagon kept changing its story on how they got there.  It could have been a disaster for President Obama's big gamble …

Portrait of a Party on the Verge of Coming Apart … CHARLESTON, South Carolina—For a certain type of Republican, the fantasy world where Donald Trump is not winning the GOP primary is a very nice place to live.  —  Beth Hansen, the campaign manager for John Kasich, is this type of Republican.

GOP to blame for civility's breakdown  —  If you ask me, President Obama is being way too hard on himself.  —  “It's one of the few regrets of my presidency, that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better,” the president said during his final State of the Union address last week.

Iraqi official: 3 Americans missing in Baghdad were kidnapped by gunmen  —  BAGHDAD — Three Americans reported missing from a Baghdad neighborhood were kidnapped by militiamen from an apartment in the capital on Saturday, a senior police official and resident of the building said.

Andrew Jackson, Revenant  —  The biggest story in America today is the roaring return of Andrew Jackson's spirit into the political debate.  —  Not since he fought with Nicholas Biddle over the future of the Bank of the United States has Andrew Jackson been this controversial or this central in American political life.

Restoring the Right to Rise Through a Quality Education  —  A Blueprint for a 21st Century American Education System  —  Every individual in this country has the right to rise.  Yet today, the American Dream—the idea that anything is possible through hard work—is threatened …

Bill Clinton's pardon of fugitive Marc Rich continues to pay big  —  Fifteen years ago this month, on Jan. 20, 2001, his last day in office, Bill Clinton issued a pardon for international fugitive Marc Rich.  It would become perhaps the most condemned official act of Clinton's political career.

The rape of the US Marine Corps: a lunatic drive for ‘fairness’  —  Gen. John Kelly, USMC, is retiring after more than four decades as an active-duty Marine.  His “greatest fear,” he says, is that the vast “equal opportunity” pressure for women in combat roles will lead the Pentagon to water down standards.

Richest 62 people as wealthy as half of world's population, says Oxfam  —  Charity says only higher wages, crackdown on tax dodging and higher investment in public services can stop divide widening  —  The vast and growing gap between rich and poor has been laid bare in a new Oxfam report showing …