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After data breach, Democratic presidential race explodes in angry claims of...
WASHINGTON — The Democratic race for president unexpectedly exploded with rancour Friday as Hillary Clinton’s campaign accused rival Bernie Sanders of stealing millions of dollars worth of information...
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John Micklethwait: What happens when one of the political wackos wins?
If you want to pick a number for 2016, how about 20 percent? Look around the politics of the Western world, and you’ll see that a lot of once-unthinkable ideas and fringe candidates suddenly have a...
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‘We told everyone this would be a dogfight’: Clinton loses support to Sanders...
Some leading Democrats are increasingly anxious about Hillary Clinton’s prospects for winning the party’s presidential nomination, warning that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ growing strength in early...
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‘His best performance yet’: Bernie Sanders shines in final Democratic primary...
In the final televised face-off before the voting for the Democratic presidential nomination kicks off in Iowa, Bernie Sanders rode a powerful wave of growing confidence, rising poll numbers, and...
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I am not aghast. Which might render others aghast, as being aghast appears to be the consensus position that properly thinking people take about Donald Trump. Let me explain. Last spring, on a drive...
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Republican operatives are having a strange bromance with Bernie Sanders. During Sunday night’s Democratic debate, the Republican National Committee made the unusual move of sending no fewer than four...
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Labelled a radical left-winger in the U.S., some of Bernie Sanders’s ideas...
WASHINGTON — For an American presidential contender, Bernie Sanders is considered a pretty radical left-winger: a proud socialist who boasts of corporate America hating him, warns of an oligarchy...
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Michael Bloomberg mulling independent presidential campaign — and he’s...
NEW YORK — Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is taking early steps toward launching an independent campaign for president, seeing a potential path to the White House amid the rise of Republican...
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Leonid Bershidsky: Clinton versus Sanders is a case of caution versus impatience
Polls show that Bernie Sanders has drawn level with Hillary Clinton in Iowa or perhaps even overtaken her. After attending the two Democrats’ events in the town of Clinton on Saturday, I think I know...
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Kelly McParland: Rich but cultivated, Bloomberg has real appeal as...
Perhaps the most appealing aspect of the trial balloon floated by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg – who is letting it be known he might run for president – is that it gives pundits someone to...
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Kelly McParland: With 41% support, Trump’s triumph seems certain. Democrats...
“Can Donald Trump actually be the Republican nominee?” The Washington Post wondered the other day, repeating a theme that has been perplexing American pundits for some time now. The first formal...
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Sanders takes lead in key states, Obama calls him ‘a complete long shot,’...
President Barack Obama has attempted to shore up Hillary Clinton’s campaign amid signs of panic that she could lose the first two states in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Obama...
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Flint, Michigan: Where the pipes poison the water and even the nice parts of...
A generation ago, in a different world that happens to share this geographic space, Mark Craig, the founder of an organization called “Flint 4 Bernie,” was living the textbook American dream. It was...
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Conrad Black: Donald Trump knows how to make a deal
The presidential political tides are shifting in all directions. The recent vigorous attacks on Donald Trump in National Review and The Weekly Standard by an imposing phalanx of commentators, including...
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Leonid Bershidsky: Don’t rule out an Iowa surprise today
J. Ann Selzer, who has conducted polling on the Iowa caucuses since 1988, says the contests almost always yield surprises. With each election, it increasingly becomes more difficult to reliably predict...
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In Iowa, the circus nears an end — but, remarkably, neither party has an idea...
One of the oddest things about being in Iowa on the eve of the caucus is that every aspect of the process here, which is so astonishing and often absurd, is covered in such minute detail that it can...
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Marco Rubio’s very big night in Iowa, with a third place that was very nearly...
Sure, his rival won the first-in-the-nation nominating contest. And he didn’t even come in second place. In fact, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., came in third, exactly where we predicted he would. But it’s...
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Bernie Sanders’ surprise showing in Iowa turns Hillary Clinton’s coronation...
DES MOINES, Iowa — It was the first big strategy session between Hillary Clinton and the yet-to-be-announced manager of her yet-to-be-launched presidential campaign. As they huddled that day last March...
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Leonid Bershidsky: If only Russia could have Iowa’s democracy
On Monday night, the Stilwell Junior High School in West Des Moines, a suburb of Iowa’s state capital, was repurposed as the 114th precinct for Democrats and Republicans to caucus for the...
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John Robson: Iowa does its job
The U.S. presidential nomination system comes in for considerable criticism, even ridicule, for its wearying length and complexity. The reality is that both serve as virtues. Monday’s Iowa caucuses...
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