‘His hands were everywhere’: Women say Trump grabbed them
The women say they felt compelled to speak after Donald Trump denied ever engaging in such conduct. One says she encountered him on a plane,...
Traumatized by Trump: Alicia Machado’s ordeal
On Monday night, Hillary Clinton turned Alicia Machado’s pain into a potent political weapon on the biggest possible stage.
Trump long fanned ‘birther’ lie before he ‘finished it’
It took Donald Trump five years of dodging, winking and joking to surrender to reality after a campaign of relentless deception that tried to undermine...
Mike Pence a conservative long — and proudly — out of sync with his times
Donald Trump’s running mate found his political springboard as an amiable 1990s radio talk-show host, but the heyday of fiscal conservatism had passed once Mike...
Dallas attack feeds animosity of Black Lives Matter critics
Trying to rebut detractors who blame the movement for inspiring a deadly attack, Black Lives Matter is scrambling to distance itself from the black shooter...
Trump’s conduct with women: lewd one moment and gentlemanly the next
Donald Trump and women: The public insults are well-known. But out of the public eye, the behavior is much the same.
Missteps and out of step: What sealed Marco Rubio’s demise
Rubio’s ill-fated campaign — virtually broke by the time Tuesday’s primary arrived — was built on mistaken assumptions about the mood and preferences of voters,...
Candidates stick to script, if not the truth
In the 2016 presidential campaign, the truth is starting to look deeply out of fashion.