Intelligence community investigating covert Russian influence operations in the United States  —  U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are probing what they see as a broad covert Russian operation in the United States to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election …

Diddy Urges ‘Hold’ on Black Vote: Hillary Needs to ‘Talk to the Black Community’  —  In an interview with Al Sharpton on Sunday, rap and fashion mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs urged the African-American community to “turn up the heat” on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, because their issues …

Jim Sleeper Gets It Wrong in ‘The New York Times’  —  This morning, readers across the country woke up to a New York Times op-ed by Yale University lecturer Jim Sleeper that contains patently false charges about FIRE and me.  —  I've deliberately ignored Sleeper's multiple screeds over the past year.

What Follows From a Presidential Campaign of So Many Negative ‘Firsts’  —  Matthew J. Dowd is an independent; chief political analyst for ABC News; and founder of Paradox Capital, a social-impact venture fund.  He was chief strategist of President George W. Bush's 2004 campaign.  He is on Twitter: @MatthewJDowd.

Why Clinton needs to win big  —  could win a decisive victory in November and still enter office without much of a mandate to govern, at least in the eyes of her Republican critics.  —  While she has succeeded so far in making the election a referendum on her opponent, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump

Young Blacks Voice Skepticism on Hillary Clinton, Worrying Democrats  —  WASHINGTON — When a handful of liberal advocacy organizations convened a series of focus groups with young black voters last month, the assessments of Donald J. Trump were predictably unsparing.

Recent Developments Show Mexican Officials Are Hedging Their Bets on Trump Victory  —  Mexican officials are hedging their bets on the upcoming US election.  —  It appears by their actions they believe Donald Trump will be the 45th President of the United States.

GOP senior statesmen continue to hold their fire on Trump  —  Josh Rogin is a columnist for the Global Opinions section of The Post.  —  With only two months left until the presidential election, the most senior national security figures in the Republican Party are largely staying on the sidelines …

Survey: Right Wing People More Likely to Be Sexually Satisfied  —  Those who consider themselves as “very right wing” are more likely to have a satisfactory sex life, according to a new European survey by YouGov that interviewed over 19,000 people.  —  Just 66% of “left wing” Brits claimed to have a satisfactory sex life.

The World Comes to a Tiny Town: Eastport's Lesson in Globalization  —  A big theme in this election year is that other countries are swindling, out-negotiating, under-bidding, and generally beating the United States in the race for better jobs and companies.

Is Rudy Giuliani Losing His Mind?  —  All summer long, Rudy Giuliani has acted as if he's in a contest with Donald Trump to prove who the most manic 70-something from the outer boroughs really is.  It started at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where Giuliani raved and gesticulated …

Are baby boomers turning out to be the worst generation?  —  I have seen the best minds of my generation, to steal a phrase from the late Allen Ginsberg, driven to heights of self-absorption, advocating policies that assure the failure of the next.  Nothing so suggests the failure of my generation …

Leaked Documents: Soros Group Spent $600K To Mainstream Pro-Refugee Attitudes  —  Leaked documents from left-wing financier George Soros's Open Society Foundations continue to reveal the extent to which the group has influenced the political response to Europe's refugee crisis.