Bernie Sanders won two of the three Democratic contests last night, but he fell further behind in the delegate count any way and isn’t very far from being mathematically eliminated.
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz split the wins on ‘Super Saturday,’ while Marco Rubio and John Kasich continue to struggle for relevance in the 2016 race.
The effort to stop Donald Trump seems likely to set off a civil war inside the Republican Party.
They haven’t gotten much attention, but there are five contests today as the 2016 nomination process continues to move forward.
With time running out, the top three candidates for the Republican nomination picked up right where they left off last week.
A renewed internal GOP fight to stop Donald Trump seems to be doomed to fail.
As expected, Hillary Clinton won big last night while Bernie Sanders largely floundered, thus going further toward making Clinton’s victory inevitable.
As expected, Donald Trump dominated Super Tuesday, putting himself one step closer to becoming the Republican nominee for President.
Changes that the Republican National Committee made to delegate allocation rules in response to what happened in 2012 are helping Donald Trump in 2016.
It’s Super Tuesday, and both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are likely to go a long way toward securing the nominations of their respective parties.
There’s little doubt that Hillary Clinton will win today’s South Carolina Primary, the only question is how big a win she’s likely to score.
With the Democratic race headed into territory where Hillary Clinton is heavily favored, Bernie Sanders may finally be coming to realize that he can’t possibly win the Democratic nomination.
Donald Trump won his third contest in a row in Nevada, putting him one step closer to inevitability.
Donald Trump hasn’t hit the point of inevitability yet, but time is running short if Republicans are going to stop him.
Donald Trump racks up another big win, while Marco Rubio surges into second and likely saves his campaign for now.
Hillary Clinton still has a massive lead in South Carolina, and in the Super Tuesday states that follow.
Bernie Sanders scored a big win in New Hampshire, as most people expected, but the look ahead still tells us that Hillary Clinton will eventually be the Democratic nominee for President.
After making a big deal about voting against the budget bill passed yesterday by Congress during the last debate, Marco Rubio ended up missing the vote altogether.
In a move it had been telegraphing for the better part of a year, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since July 2006.
Ohio’s Secretary of State is already precluding the possibility that Donald Trump could get on the ballot as an independent in the Buckeye State.
A divided Supreme Court heard argument today in a case involving affirmative action in college admissions that is before the Court for the second time in two years.
Two months after seemingly promising to remain loyal to the Republican Party, Donald Trump is again refusing to rule out an independent run for the White House next year.
Syrian refugees have quickly become political footballs in the United States in the wake of the Paris attacks, and it’s become an exceedingly shameful display of pandering and fearmongering by a group of largely Republican politicians.
Ben Carson displays incoherence and ignorance on foreign policy issues that disqualify him from being considered a serious candidate for President of the United States.
The Supreme Court is now considering a case that deals with the problem of overly broad civil asset forfeiture laws and a Defendant’s right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment.
Ben Carson’s campaign now admits that he fabricated a key portion of his biography.
As Ben Carson rises in the polls, it’s worth noting his many examples of having what can only be called a very odd relationship with truth and the basic facts of history.
With the top conservative caucus in Congress acquiescing to his candidacy, Paul Ryan is largely certain to become the next Speaker of the House.
The marriage equality issue is resolved, but that doesn’t mean the Supreme Court won’t have a lot of high profile cases on its docket over the next eight months.
Vice-President Biden will apparently not be at the first Democratic debate, which may be yet another sign that he’s not running for President.
There was far too much pseudoscience in evidence during the Republican Debate on Wednesday.
A Federal Judge has ruled that part of a lawsuit filed by the House of Representatives can go forward, but the legal battle is far from over.
At least on paper, Senate Democrats now have enough votes to block the Senate from voting on a resolution disapproving of the Iran Nuclear Deal.
A teenager in North Carolina is facing serious criminal charges in another absurd overreaction to teenager “sexting.”
The 2016 election will be fought on a very small battlefield, and right now the makeup of that battlefield heavily favors the Democrats.
The RNC wants Donald Trump to sign an oath that he will not run as a third-party candidate if he doesn’t win the Republican nomination.
Scott Walker and Chris Christie apparently think that the key to turning around their dying campaigns is to pander to the people supporting Donald Trump’s anti-immigration platform.
Thanks in part to a slow summer news cycle, the speculation about Vice-President Biden entering the race for President seems to be reaching a fever pitch.
Recent polling has shown the American public to be highly skeptical, at beast, of the Iran Nuclear Deal. That may not be enough to kill it in Congress, though.
The current Republican primary polls are “measuring a unicorn electorate” yet effect the outcome of the race.
The Huffington Post announced today that they would not be covering Donald Trump in their politics section from this point forward. That’s the wrong thing to do.
Despite the clear language of the 14th Amendment, Texas is apparently refusing to issue birth certificates to some children born in the United States whose parents happen to be in the country illegally.
Donald Trump has gotten almost nothing but negative press since entering the race for President, but it doesn’t seem to be hurting him very much just yet.
The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to wade back into the thorny issue of race and higher education.
The US Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that the U.S. Constitution contains a right to same-sex marriage.
A 19 year old from Indiana faces a quarter century as a registered sex offender because he met a girl who lied about her age.
A new Michigan law allows religious-affiliated adoption agencies to turn away parents for religious reasons, and it seems fairly obvious what the target is in this case.
