Why Rubio hasn't endorsed Cruz  —  Marco Rubio won't be endorsing Ted Cruz during the Republican presidential primary, but he's likely to back the Texas senator at a contested convention — if it gets that far.  —  The de facto plan, Rubio's backers say, is designed to help Cruz.

America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny … Illustration by  —  As this dystopian election campaign has unfolded, my mind keeps being tugged by a passage in Plato's Republic.  It has unsettled — even surprised — me from the moment I first read it in graduate school.

Craig Wright revealed as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto  —  Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright has publicly identified himself as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.  —  His admission ends years of speculation about who came up with the original ideas underlying the digital cash system.

Trump: 'We can't continue to allow China to rape our country'  —  (CNN)Donald Trump on Sunday compared the U.S.'s trade deficit with China, which he regularly laments and vows to tackle as president, to rape.  —  “We can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing …

Senate on pace for lightest work schedule in 60 years  —  Senate Republicans have left town for another recess with their yearlong claim that the Senate is “back to work” an increasingly tough sell to voters.  —  Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has worked painstakingly to craft …

The Model American  —  In July of 2002, two years before Donald Trump became engaged to the Slovenian model Melania Knauss, he visited her native country for three hours.  The couple had been in London.  At around 8 P.M. on a Monday night, they landed at Ljubljana's Brnik airport in Trump's Boeing 727.

The Benghazi slow-walk: How to drag out an investigation for maximum political impact  —  Trey Gowdy's committee has been overloading the Pentagon with interview requests and hunting down Hannity callers  —  At some point over the next few months, the House Select Committee on Benghazi …

Letting Stephen Colbert Be Stephen Colbert (Whoever That Is)  —  Last Wednesday, the CBS chairman Leslie Moonves ducked into that night's taping of Stephen Colbert's “Late Show,” and then joined Mr. Colbert in his office above the Ed Sullivan Theater.  —  There Mr. Moonves …

DPS closes 94 schools due to teacher sickout  —  Detroit Public Schools closed 94 of its 97 schools on Monday, citing the Detroit teachers union's call for a districtwide sickout amid concerns about the weakening finances of Michigan's largest school district.

Blogger sues Kathryn Knott, her father, and Bucks D.A.  —  A blogger who wrote about Kathryn Knott - the Bucks County woman convicted of participating in a 2014 attack on a gay couple in Center City - has sued Knott, Knott's father, the Bucks County district attorney, and others.

Why Bill Gates' Math Error About Climate Change Matters  —  Bill Gates keeps saying confused and confusing things about climate policy and clean energy.  —  Gates has positioned himself as a major player and spokesman in this arena with his “Breakthrough Energy Coalition,” …

Sources: FBI foils terror attack at Aventura synagogue; 1 arrested  —  AVENTURA, Fla. (WSVN) — Federal agents arrested a man who, sources said, was planning to throw an explosive device into a South Florida synagogue.  —  According to law enforcement sources, the FBI set up a sting to thwart …

Stricter Rules for Voter IDs Reshape Races  —  SAN ANTONIO — In a state where everything is big, the 23rd Congressional District that hugs the border with Mexico is a monster: eight and a half hours by car across a stretch of land bigger than any state east of the Mississippi.

Stop Saying ‘I Feel Like’  —  IN American politics, few forces are more powerful than a voter's vague intuition.  “I support Donald Trump because I feel like he is a doer,” a senior at the University of South Carolina told Cosmopolitan.  “Personally, I feel like Bernie Sanders is too idealistic …

Clinton fundraising leaves little for state parties  —  In the days before Hillary Clinton launched an unprecedented big-money fundraising vehicle with state parties last summer, she vowed “to rebuild our party from the ground up,” proclaiming “when our state parties are strong, we win.

CNN Enjoys Outsize Ratings Boost From Presidential Race  —  Time Warner's cable news network has more than doubled target prime-time audience this year and continues to raise ad rates  —  When CNN President Jeff Zucker saw the ratings for Fox News's first Republican debate last August …