Two members of the establishment are trying to unseat a populist candidate by appealing to a party they helped ruin

Donald Trump’s campaign manager won’t be prosecuted for battery. But how did we even get this far in the first place?

Donald Trump has disappointed the rightwing provocateur by sending out ‘half-baked tweets’ about Ted Cruz’s wife. In other news, satire has died

This story arc that has been building for some time, and Tuesday’s contests in Arizona, Utah and Idaho did nothing to change that

Trump’s butler has given the world a peek into the mogul’s so-called life of luxury, splendor and indulgence. Your correspondent is not impressed

Establishment Republicans aren’t supporting Trump, but his performance still entertained and charmed them far more than his favored opponents’ did

The Republican frontrunner often complains that he’s been dismissed by the media. But it’s not him that the pundits are contemptuous of; it’s his supporters

Don’t blame Trump or pity him: Bush bungled his own campaign from the start and may have ended a dynasty of genteel political malfeasance and mass death

Donald Trump told the truth, insults were hurled, Spanish was spoken and the moderator had to threaten to turn the car around. It was a fiasco for everyone

The New Jersey governor had to leave the race and take the cannoli – but not without whacking Marco Rubio on his way out the door

The Democratic candidates demonstrated moments of warmth and intimacy in their town hall debate – yet ultimately policy matters most

Who knows why Trump really said he’s skipping Thursday’s debate? He regularly defies logic the way Wile E Coyote defies gravity

The Ivy League-educated, white-shoe lawyer running for the Republican nomination is now being forced to defend his American-ness. It’s fun to watch

The new, and repeat, presidential candidate wants to ban burqas, but policing clothing doesn’t jibe with the Libertarian brand

Like the movie Memento, reality resets every 24 hours in the American political consciousness, and what is real is whatever the politicians need it to be

Voters could easily stop liking one candidate and pick another, similar one instead, so there’s no reason for most of them to quit the primary

We don’t need to give a reason as to why we’re against his proposed ban on Muslims entering America. Sometimes awful doesn’t need parsing

We will, once again, purposely mistake the how and why of the San Bernardino shootings – the 355th mass shooting of the year – because it suits us

The objective reality that Muslims in New Jersey didn’t cheer on 9/11 – or anything else – doesn’t matter when the “truth” is just a matter of perspective

Bobby Jindal won statewide office by promising to be good at government. He lost the Republican nomination because he couldn’t pretend to be nutty, too