Inside the Republican Party's Desperate Mission to Stop Donald Trump  —  The scenario Karl Rove outlined was bleak.  —  Addressing a luncheon of Republican governors and donors in Washington on Feb. 19, he warned that Donald J. Trump's increasingly likely nomination would be catastrophic, dooming the party in November.

VIDEO: Bill Clinton snaps at veteran during speech: ‘Shut up and listen to my answer’  —  The long hours and grueling pace of the presidential campaign may be finally catching up with a rapidly aging Bill Clinton.  —  During an appearance in Bluffton, South Carolina on Friday …

Stuff Keeps Getting Cheaper  —  Since 1995, durable goods (cars, televisions, computers and the like) have been getting cheaper in the U.S. That's even as the prices of services and nondurables have mostly kept rising.  —  In the chart above, prices are viewed using 2009 as the base year.

A 16-Year-Old Solves Britain's Immigration Problem  —  The United Kingdom suffers from immigration issues similar to those that afflict the United States.  As a member of the European Union, it is obliged to accept large numbers of unskilled immigrants who find not only Britain's wages …

S.C. Democrats head to the polls; Clinton, Sanders head out of state  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Democratic presidential contest has moved to South Carolina, where voters began casting their ballots Saturday in a primary that serves as two starkly different milestones for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

Scalia's Death Prompts Dow to Settle Suits for $835 Million  —  Company cites ‘political uncertainties’ in statement  —  Dow had petitioned Supreme Court over $1 billion jury award  —  Dow Chemical Co. said it agreed to pay $835 million to settle an antitrust case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court …

Ex-Mexican President Fox: Donald Trump reminds me of Hitler  — Former Mexican President Vicente Fox on Friday kept up his withering criticism of Donald Trump, saying the GOP front-runner reminds him of Adolf Hitler  — “He has offended Mexico, Mexicans, [and] immigrants.  He has offended the Pope.

The Cases for Public Investment  —  One of the annoying aspects of the Sanders/Friedman flap was the assumption of many Sanders supporters that anyone who doesn't accept extravagant economic projections is against a big program of public investment.  Actually, it was destructive as well as annoying …

The Governing Cancer of Our Time  —  We live in a big, diverse society.  There are essentially two ways to maintain order and get things done in such a society — politics or some form of dictatorship.  Either through compromise or brute force.  Our founding fathers chose politics.

Ahmed Mohamed's ex-school district sues state to keep civil rights investigation secret  —  Ahmed Mohamed, 14, appears with U.S. representatives in Washington last October.  His ex school district is suing to keep secret the details of a federal investigation related to his arrest.  (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Yes, Trump University Was a Massive Scam  —  Many people believe that higher education is a de facto scam.  Trump University, Donald Trump's real-estate institution, was a de jure one.  —  First thing first, Trump University was never a university.  When the “school” was established in 2005 …

Melissa Harris-Perry's Email to Her #nerdland Staff  —  On Friday afternoon, media reports emerged about my friend Melissa Harris-Perry's refusal to host her eponymous weekend program on MSNBC on Saturday.  I was one of the original producers on the show when it launched in 2012, leaving for another job in 2015.