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Wiretap: California passes a $15 minimum wage. Now what?

Go big It looks like California is volunteering to become a statewide laboratory on minimum-wage economics. A deal has been made to raise the wage...

Wiretap: Is the Sanders-Clinton race back on?

Catching up? Bernie sweeps on Saturday, including a big win in a biggish state. Is the race back on? Via The Atlantic. History lesson A prominent lefty...

Colorado’s GOP delegates: With Trump or against him?

  The influence Colorado Republicans could wield on their party's nomination for president just became more apparent. The state party has released the names of Colorado Republicans running to become delegates...

Wiretap: Ted Cruz to police: ‘Secure Muslim neighborhoods’

Poor Jeb! Jeb, desperate to stop Trump, endorses Ted Cruz, who in the day after the Brussels terror attack, proposed that cops "patrol and secure Muslim...

Wiretap: How Bernie Sanders could still win

Sanders hope? Nate Cohn explains how Bernie Sanders could still somehow pull out a win. Via The New York Times Defying odds Whatever else Sanders accomplishes in his surprisingly successful run...

Wiretap: Donald Trump lit the fuse. Can the fire be contained?

Violent times The Trump reality show has turned violent. The protestors are now out in force. Yes, the Donald has lit a fire and now...

Littwin: Why did GOP candidates make nice with Trump?

In what was basically the Republicans' closing argument against the bizarre notion that Donald Trump might actually win the party's nomination, Trump's competitors decided,...

Wiretap: Clinton and Sanders jostle over immigration

Clinton vs. Sanders Bernie Sanders' startling win in Michigan Tuesday night changed the terms of the Univision debate a night later. It meant, to Hillary...

Littwin: GOP candidates drop to their knees for Donald Trump

Yesterday was the day when the #neverTrumpers came full tilt after the Donald, and if they didn't succeed in bringing him down this time, they...

Littwin: Marco Rubio won the GOP debate. Will it matter?

Now that we've seen the barely controlled chaos that was Thursday's Republican debate -- a CNN closed-captioner aptly pegged one exchange as "unintelligible yelling"...