A report from the campaign trail.

A profile of the man who ran Jeb Bush’s $118 million super-PAC as he cleans out his office. Had Murphy been legally allowed to talk to the candidate during the election, here’s what he would have said: “What the fuck were we thinking?”

“In less than a year Trump has succeeded in turning the USA into a massive high school.”

Notes from the GOP campaign trail.

“Women are not abstaining from or delaying marriage to prove a point about equality. They are doing it because they have internalized assumptions that just a half-century ago would have seemed radical.”

Excerpted from </em>All the Single Ladies</a>.

It’s been 46 years since she gave her famous commencement address at Wellesley. What she was trying to say then—that politics is personal, that she believes in human connection above all else—she is trying to say again in 2016. Maybe she’s been trying to say it all along.

Inside the Republican Party’s bizarre, tumultuous 2015.

On the history of political polls, which have become more influential and less reliable over time.

On Republican consultant John Weaver and the art of political seduction.

How do you rollout a candidate whom everyone thinks they already know?

When Jeb Bush married his wife, it was the bravest thing he’d ever done. Her role in his life is still a mystery.

He may not be the surest bet for the Presidency, but Bernie Sanders might be the most interesting candidate in the race.

On the Republican slate for the 2016 presidential election: “Of the dozen or so people who have declared or are thought likely to declare, every one can be described as a full-blown adult failure.”

On Elizabeth Warren’s shadow candidacy.

Meet a man who could be called the “Hillaryland Whisperer.”

Maybe Clinton isn’t a “good candidate,” as political junkies like to say. But that might not matter in 2016.