What Do Women Want? Hillary Clinton, Not So Much.
There's no mystery about why women are lukewarm on a backward-looking, mediocre pol: Gender is thankfully not as big a deal as it used to be.
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How Gun Politics Could Hurt Hillary
Matt Welch talks 2016 politics on tonight's Kennedy at 8 p.m. ET
New Trump Ad Attacks Hillary Clinton for Her Husband's Alleged Sex Crimes
"Here we go again" is right...
One of the Them Will Win, But Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton Are Unacceptable To Most Voters
Bernie Sanders says we shouldn't be forced to "vote for the lesser of two evils."
58 Percent of Voters Willing To Go With Someone Other Than Trump or Clinton
Can the LP and other third-parties rise to the opportunity?
The Seven Counties That Will Determine the Next President
Q&A with Hot Air's Ed Morrissey
Annie Duke: 'What Life Lessons Can Poker Teach Us? All of Them.'
Poker champ talks game theory, gambling, and Donald Trump.
Meet the Hawks for Hillary!
A running list of military interventionists who have declared preference for the long-hated Democrat
Meet the Libertarians!
While #NeverTrumpers flail, America's third party readies an unprecedentedly newsworthy 50-state run
Watch Matt Welch Bash Workplace Drug Testing and Trump's Ferguson Affect on Red Eye
Tune into Fox News at 3 a.m. ET for ugly Pennsylvanians, cultish Bernie fans, sexist Marvel casting, and more
Don't Be Fooled By Trump's SCOTUS Short List
There's no reason to believe that Trump will nominate a principled constitutionalist to the Supreme Court.
Europe's Proto-Trumpism, Venezuela's Useful Idiots, and Kmele Foster's L.P. Ambivalence
The Fifth Column discusses whataboutism, third-party challenges, J.K. Rowling's defense of Trump's free speech, and more
#NeverTrump #NeverHillary Claims Another Life
Women's obituary slags the terrible major-party choices facing Americans in November.
Conservatives More Susceptible to Bullshit Than Liberals
Supporters of Trump, Cruz, and Rubio more likely to see profoundness in bullshit than supporters of Clinton, Sanders, and O'Malley
Obama Blasts Political Correctness, 'Fragile' Students in Rutgers Speech
"Don't feel like you got to shut your ears because you're too fragile and somebody might offend your sensibilities," said Obama.
Will the GOP Face Facts And Embrace Donald Trump as One of Their Own?
Speaker Paul Ryan hasn't endorsed The Donald-yet.
Always Worse Than Trump on Immigration, Obama Plans Big Deportation Raids Over Next Weeks
Donald Trump and other conservatives' deportation fantasies are awful. President Obama's actual record is even worse.
Why Trump Supporters Are Bringing an Elephant Man to the Beauty Pageant
Holding up a funhouse mirror to a disreputable political establishment
Trump: An Elephant Man for the Beauty Pageant
Trump supporters hold up a funhouse mirror to a political class they find even more disgusting
Trump's Threat Against The Washington Post Is Yet Another Reminder That He is a Bully and an Authoritarian
Trump's lack of respect for freedom of speech is deeply worrying.
A California Bill Trump the Developer Would Love
Would make using eminent domain even easier.
Study Attempts to Show Exactly How Trump's Trade Wars Devastate the Poor
How to erase billions from the American economy.
"Libertarians: Just Say No to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump!"
P.J. O'Rourke is voting for Hillary and Peter Thiel is a Trump delegate. WTF?
Trump Fans and 'Social Justice Warriors,' Two Sides of the Same Authoritarian Coin
Both the social-justice left and the alt-right view the world primarily through identity politics.
GOP Leaders Want to Unify Around Trump. That Will Only Make the Republican Party's Problems Worse
Rallying behind Trump would cement the party's status as a joke party devoted to channeling grievances.
Obama, Trump, and the Nuking of Hiroshima
America needn't apologize, but must consider who has his finger on the button.
"I'm Happy To See the Republican Party Disintegrate"…But Trump Is a Disaster From a Libertarian POV
What I told The Real News about The Donald and the libertarian alternative.
No Religious Test for Immigrants to U.S.: Freedom of Religion Act of 2016
Thanks Donald Trump for making it clear that we need such a new law
The 'Conservatarian' Collapse, Obama's 'Narrative' Dishonesty, and the Real Estate Anguish of Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Fifth Column welcomes Charles C.W. Cooke to talk #NeverTrump, idiotic writings, and more.
John McCain Decries the Trumpian 'Nativism' That He Depends on to Stay in the Senate Forever
79-year-old senator wants you to know he feels very bad about the presidential candidate he made possible, yet still won't join Neocons 4 Hillary because he has to win another re-election
Donald Trump Thinks Budweiser Rebranded as "America" Because of His Political Campaign
The GOP nominee turns the beer company's branding stunt into his own.
Sanders Voters for Trump
Why would a Donald Trump fan vote for Bernie Sanders? Here are some possibilities...
Why Paul Ryan Might Not Back Donald Trump—And Why He Shouldn't
The House Speaker's refusal to back his party's nominee would be a small but important step away from two-party politics.
Eccentric Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Makes Strangest Move Yet: Becoming Trump Delegate
White nationalist William Johnson also on delegate list, though Trump campaign says that was just a "database error."
Gary Johnson on CNN: "On the Social Side of Bernie, I Get It"
L.P. presidential hopeful outreaches to the progressives, calls Trump on immigration "crazy."
Liberal Pundit Fears Trump Will Make SCOTUS Go Libertarian
What will the Supreme Court look like under a Trump presidency?
Donald Trump Says London's Muslim Mayor Could Visit U.S. as "Exception" to Muslim Ban
Presumptive GOP presidential nominee flip-flops on promise to ban all Muslims, London Mayor Sadiq Khan says he's not interested in being an "exception."
Partisan Voters Lining Up Behind Clinton, Trump, But Don't Seem to Like Them Very Much
Think third-party candidates help throw the election to Clinton? Think again.
Trump, Sanders Show Voters Just as Irrational as Ever
Economist Bryan Caplan finds the thesis in his book The Myth of the Rational Voter holds true in 2016, more obviously than ever.
P.J. O'Rourke Endorses Hillary Clinton
Calls her "the second worst thing that could happen to this country"
Sarah Palin Targets Paul Ryan For Not Backing Donald Trump Fast Enough
Time to bend the knee.
Did John Roberts' Pro-Obamacare Ruling Encourage the Rise of Donald Trump?
Debating the influence of the conservative chief justice on the 2016 GOP race.
We Were Kidding About Donald Trump Literally Taking the U.S. to Bankruptcy Court, Right?
GOP presumptive nominee discusses renegotiating federal debt, like struggling economies do.
