Fewer people think Donald Trump will eventually be the Republican nominee, even though Trump still holds a double-digit lead in the latest national poll. Read more One professor understands the rise of Bernie Sanders in 2016 as illustrative of a broken education system. Read more John Kasich has discovered himself in New Hampshire. Read more New Jersey Governor Chris Christie came out on fire at tonight’s debate in New Hampshire — but his passion had nothing to do with defeating Democrats or promoting his record. Read more Bernie Sanders scored his first victory of 2016 over Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire — before the primary. Read more “The last time I checked, my uterus was not a sentient being,” Read more A Republican presidential field that was once so unwieldy that debates had to be broken into undercard and main events may soon shrink from its peak of 17 prominent candidates to just three. Read more And Cruz called America's enemies, not its soldiers, "psychopaths." Read more Donald Trump's willingness to go after his adversaries with "ugly rhetoric" has some pundits worried about the state of modern political discourse. Read more A texting app turned off its spellchecker, and people became very lax with their spelling accuracy. Read more And she's been getting worse. Read more For the presidential candidates who want to capture the youth vote, they’d better start tweeting. Read more After weeks of insisting that they were not attacking one another, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders took the gloves off for their first one-on-one debate as they sparred on who would be the more progressive president. Read more Former President Jimmy Carter, a liberal president who not only said he'd prefer Trump over Cruz, but said he doesn't believe Trump holds any real conservative positions. Read more College graduates tend to be confident that college was a good decision, but student debt has made alternatives like vocational schools attractive. Read more When asked why she accepted $675,000 in fees from a Wall Street bank, she explained, "that's what they offered me," and said that money won't affect policy. Read more Although not as successful, Rand Paul continued a legacy begun by his father, Ron Paul, by becoming a voice for the GOP’s libertarian-leaning voters — many of whom are young voters. Read more The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer Stephen F. Hayes on Donald Trump's interesting Iowa theory Read more
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