As Donald Trump and Ted Cruz Soar, G.O.P. Leaders' Exasperation Grows  —  DES MOINES — Republican leaders are growing alarmed by the ferocious ways the party's mainstream candidates for president are attacking one another, and they fear that time is running out for any of them to emerge …

We checked if 2,000 voters recognized the 2016 candidates' faces.  Here's what we found.  —  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are by far the most recognizable faces in the 2016 race, a poll conducted by Morning Consult and Vox has found.  —  Ninety-six percent of respondents to the online poll …

2 Abortion Foes Behind Planned Parenthood Videos Are Indicted  —  HOUSTON — A grand jury here that was investigating allegations of misconduct against Planned Parenthood has instead indicted two anti-abortion activists who made videos of the organization.  —  In a statement …

Why we must rethink solitary confinement  —  Barack Obama is president of the United States.  —  In 2010, a 16-year-old named Kalief Browder from the Bronx was accused of stealing a backpack.  He was sent to Rikers Island to await trial, where he reportedly endured unspeakable violence …

Is Nominating Bernie Sanders a Worthwhile Gamble?  —  Hillary Clinton's supporters have yet to make a persuasive case that Sanders is too great a risk.  —  For the better part of a year, Bernie Sanders enjoyed a polite if slightly bemused welcome from the non-radical quarters of the Democratic firmament.

Sarah Palin, Rage Whisperer  —  DONALD J. TRUMP has made a shrewd bet.  For the first time since he descended an escalator in Trump Tower last June to announce that this time, he really was running for president, he ceded control of his campaign message.  He handed the Trump-bedecked podium over to Sarah Palin.

The Silent Death  —  A couple months ago I wrote about a controversial study which reported the rising mortality rates among middle aged whites - a trend which broke the model of ever-decreasing mortality rates across racial groups in the United States and all wealthy industrialized countries worldwide.

Republicans should vote for John Kasich in New Hampshire  —  NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICANS can do their party a critical service on Feb. 9 by voting for an experienced political figure with a record of results, and thus dealing a blow to the divisive, demagogic candidates running on nativism and other political simplicities.

Watch: Oregon militant challenges Chris Christie to sumo wrestling to end standoff  —  An armed protester at the Malhuer National Wildlife Refuge says the militants will end their standoff if Chris Christie can beat him in one round of sumo wrestling.  (YouTube)

Au revoir and shalom: Jews leave France in record numbers  —  Ashdod, Israel (CNN)Yoav Krief remembers the day he knew it was time to move to Israel: January 9, 2015.  —  It was a Friday.  Four Jews had just been killed in the Hyper Cacher, a kosher supermarket in Paris, two days after the Charlie Hebdo attack.