Bernie's top strategist: 'Maybe they're going to put him on the ticket'  —  Ask people in Hillary Clinton's world if they have a secret weapon to help win over voters under the age of old, and many will offer this answer: Bernie Sanders.  —  All you had to do was watch Sunday night's debate …

How Donald Trump scrambles the general election map  —  If Donald Trump's coalition carries him to the GOP nomination, it could produce a crazy-quilt general election that scrambles the conventional wisdom about the battleground state map.  —  The Electoral College landscape has been fairly stable …

Money Pours In as Move to Stop Donald Trump Expands  —  Republicans hoping to halt Donald J. Trump's march to their party's presidential nomination emerged from the weekend's voting contests newly emboldened by Mr. Trump's uneven electoral performance and by some nascent signs that he may be peaking with voters.

Supreme Court reverses Alabama court that denied lesbian woman's adoption  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously reversed an Alabama court's refusal to recognize a same-sex adoption.  —  The justices upheld a challenge brought by an Alabama woman after her state's highest court refused …

Decades Later, ‘Spy’ Magazine Founders Continue To Torment Trump  —  Listen to the Story  —  Soon after its launch in 1986, the satirical magazine Spy picked Donald Trump as the brash embodiment of a crass age.  Founded by Graydon Carter and Kurt Andersen, the magazine chronicled …

Ex-ADL chief: Trump's ‘raise your hand’ gambit was deliberate, Nazi-style ‘fascist gesture’  —  Abe Foxman calls episode ‘about as offensive, obnoxious and disgusting as anything I thought I would ever witness in the United States of America’; says Republican candidate knew exactly what he was doing

After last night, is there any way realistically that Trump doesn't win Florida?  —  Seeing a lot of buzz this morning that Trump underperformed last night and therefore it's a whole new ballgame in Florida and Ohio.  It may indeed be a whole new ballgame — but not the way you think.

The College That Wants to Ban ‘History’  —  The history department might someday become the hxstory department, if the students in the Assembly for Power and Liberation have their way.  —  Students at Western Washington University have reached a turning point in their campus's hxstory.

Republicans have destroyed their party; will they take America with them?  —  “If he was for it, we had to be against it.”  —  The “he” is President Barack Obama.  The “we” is the Republican Party.  And it is not coincidental that as the former pushes toward the end of his second term, the latter is coming apart.

Some supporters of Rubio say bad strategy, poorly run campaign killing his chances … Sensing an opportunity for an upset victory, Marco Rubio spent most of Friday in Kansas, where he picked up a series of high-profile endorsements that he hoped could help thrust him into contention.

When Fallacies Collide  —  The formal debates among the Republicans who would be president have exceeded all expectations.  Even the most hardened cynics couldn't have imagined that the candidates would sink so low, and stay so focused on personal insults.  Yet last week, offstage …

Trump Tower Funded by Rich Chinese Who Invest Cash for Visas  —  New Jersey building partly funded via controversial visa plan  —  Video to sell it to investors is subtitled in Chinese  —  Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has attacked China and warned about the dangers of deficient immigrant screening.

Last Slide  —  Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders discussed their stances on the auto industry bailout during Flint's Democratic presidential debate.  Here's the nub of the fight over Clinton's support and Sanders' opposition to the auto bailout.  —  The $82 billion that helped finance …

Lust for Destruction  —  When people try to make sense of this topsy-turvy, norm-busting election year, one of the key mistake they make is to assume that the dynamics that operate for Donald Trump in the Republican primary will operate in a general election.  They won't.