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Virginia-based tobacco giant on track to be the biggest spender in...

Big Tobacco may beat out the casino industry for a dubious distinction: biggest spender on a ballot measure in Colorado’s history. Supporters of Amendment 72,...

Gardner endorses Trump after months of silence

Sen. Cory Gardner has endorsed Donald Trump, the Republican nominee with whom he once engaged in a Twitter feud, for president. Gardner has long...

Littwin: Are we a nation in the midst of crisis — or...

The question after Dallas, after Baton Rouge, after Falcon Heights, is whether we are a nation in the midst of crisis or simply a...

Wiretap: Republican Nikki Haley champions tolerance, irks far right

Complicated history The complicated history of Nikki Haley met up with the complicated history of Barack Obama to take on the Donald's not so complicated history. Via The...

No surprise: The super rich are floating the 2016 elections

There's the myth of the United States: It's a Democracy, each citizen gets a vote, and everybody's voice counts. And then there's the reality: When...

Keefe: 2016 is the year of the outsider

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Wiretap: Donald Trump joins the elephant pack

Mencken mention P.J. O'Rourke does the perfect writerly thing in describing the Trump candidacy. (We first stop for laughter, and then proceed.) O'Rourke quotes the...