There's intersectionality in theory, and then there's intersectionality as practiced by the most hysterically identity-obsessed activists.
The libertarian Republican tells CNN's Jake Tapper "it is important that we have someone in there who is presenting a vision for America that is different from what these two parties are presenting."
The president's speech at CPAC was a bedazzling mix of bravado, B.S., humor, and positive vision no Democrat will be able to top.
Beto O'Rourke-who won't call himself a "progressive," let alone a "democratic socialist"-is expected to jump into the presidential race.
Democrats approached the issue carefully in 2016. Now six presidential candidates are all-in for complete reform.
Plus: Democrats move to make ad targeting illegal, and more on Elizabeth Warren's child care proposal
Ronna McDaniel's CPAC comments are latest indication that the Republican National Committee will tilt heavily Trump in 2020.
Harris said it was an "unintended consequence," but CNN reports it was the explicit purpose of the policy, which she opposed changing.
"All I can do is keep plotting straight ahead," says the GOP field's lone challenger, who is polling at 18 percent.
"I think that we have to understand though that it is not as simple as that."
Plus: Sanders on democratic socialism, Medicare for All, and what to do about Venezuela
The possible presidential contender has come a long way since his tough-on-crime speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention, but he's still emphasizing his U.S. attorney past.
Richard Nixon faced a primary challenger in 1972...and he squashed him like a bug.
The Vermont independent has yanked Democrats so far to the left that his competitors are becoming mini-mes.
All too often, the Massachusetts senator and 2020 hopeful gets key details wrong.
Medicare for All, free college, breaking up the banks, a $15 minimum wage-the Vermont socialist wants to do it all.
How an independent helped shape the Democratic policy agenda.
The Minnesota senator says the national debt constrains policymaking, giving the rare impression of a candidate who has actually thought things through.
Plus: on hate crimes and hoaxes; Warren's child care plan; growing government discontent; and building new kink communities
The first semi-declared 2020 GOP challenger comes out blazing against the president while trying to wriggle off the hook about his recent Libertarian past.
Pro-choice, Obama-supporting "Libertarian for life" will take a "substantial" move Friday toward competing for the Republican presidential nomination.
The presidential contender is a johnny-come-lately on legalization, but she is right about the importance of fun.
Billionaire seeks ballot access, political party seeks cash, both hate the national debt...but Schultz is far more interventionist at home and abroad than, say, Bill Weld.
New Yorkers don't want him. Why would the rest of the country?
The senator is already lying about her record as a drug warrior, but she's also dissembling about what music was around during her college and law school years.
Untethered from real-world constraints, progressive Democratic policy goes utopian.
It's an inversion of the formula Trump used to get elected by scapegoating illegal immigrants. She's just targeting a different minority group.
For most of the presidential candidate's political career, she was absolutely dead set against full legalization.
"Minnesota Nice" branding belies mean streak and temper, said staff. Will it harm her presidential chances?
Thanks to the Citizens United decision, the streaming service can play it whenever and wherever it wants.
Town hall pilloried because Schultz is undeclared, uninformed, unelectable...and because he might become the next-or help the current-Donald Trump.
There are more forms of hepatitis than there are major parties in America.
"As far as we're concerned he's a Libertarian and he can't flip-flop back and forth for political expediency," says New Hampshire GOP chair.
But she provided very little evidence to back up her claims.
Although that assumes that socially liberal and fiscally conservative voters even exist, which they don't, right?
What comes next in the Virginia governor scandal, why "Medicare for All" ain't happening, and how Baby Boomers are a fatberg clogging America's cultural sewers
The New Jersey senator is a friend of criminal justice reform, but his best friend might steal the spotlight.
Her big new tax plan is impractical, ineffective, and probably unconstitutional.
Plus: Congress defends unauthorized war and a genetic-testing company is opening up its records to the federal government.
Despite Weld's 14 months of party-building as a Libertarian, the local media and some of his allies are talking up a GOP primary challenge to Donald Trump
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a veteran, believes that military intervention should be a last resort.
Who's ready for a class war from the party of John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, and the Kennedy/Roosevelt clans?
The senator and presidential hopeful went to bat for dirty prosecutors, opposed marijuana legalization, and championed policies that endanger sex workers.
The Starbucks magnate is rich and early enough to buy his way onto ballots, but it's hard for a relative unknown to beat the third-party boomerang effect in a time of centrism-hating polarization.
Transitioning to a fully government-run system would require eliminating private health insurance for nearly 180 million Americans.
Plus: Another way the E.U. "right to be forgotten" is risky, and Baltimore cuts back on pot prohibition
The 2020 contender's single-payer pitch is all about disruption.
