The rise of Donald Trump is a terrifying moment in American politics  —  On Monday, Donald Trump held a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he merrily repeated a woman in the crowd who called Ted Cruz a pussy.  Twenty-four hours later, Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary in a landslide.

GOP establishment stares into the abyss  —  MANCHESTER N.H. - For the establishment wing of the Republican Party, the picture just keeps getting bleaker.  —  Far from winnowing the crowded field of mainstream GOP contenders and allowing it to unify around a standard-bearer, New Hampshire thrust it further into chaos.

Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and the Republican Establishment's Tragedy of the Commons  —  The richly deserved collapse of a rotten party elite.  —  “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,” goes the old saying.  In the case of Donald Trump's candidacy, step one, ignoring, never happened.

Bush and Rubio race to the bottom  —  New Hampshire was supposed to be the nail Marco Rubio would drive into Jeb Bush's coffin.  —  Now, it might be the beginning of Rubio digging his own political grave.  —  The two warring Floridians spent much of the New Hampshire campaign eyeing each other …

Donald Trump's Enormous New Hampshire Victory Is a Crippling Blow to the GOP  —  His critics thought he would fade away after his loss in Iowa.  Instead he came roaring back.  —  About halfway through the five stages of Republican despair over the state of the presidential primary …

5 takeaways from New Hampshire  —  BEDFORD, N.H. — If there was any doubt that voters in both parties are in an ornery, establishment-flaying frame of mind (oh, and there wasn't) Tuesday's First in the Nation primary demolished the last illusion that 2016 would revert to anything approaching a normal election cycle.

Feminism, Hell and Hillary Clinton  —  I'm 51.  My health is decent.  And while my mother died young, there's longevity elsewhere in the family tree.  —  I could live to see an openly gay presidential candidate with a real chance of victory.  —  Will there be a “special place in hell” …

PBS NewsHour obtains Clinton memo conceding New Hampshire, focusing on March  —  Hours before official New Hampshire results appeared Tuesday, Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook conceded to staffers, supporters and some reporters that the Granite State race was lost …

Of course Hillary Clinton is a victim of sexism: Bernie Sanders' supporters and others should scrutinize the ways they judge a female candidate differently  —  Does sexism have anything to do with the intense animosity some Americans, including some Democrats, feel for Hillary Clinton?  Yes.