The mayoral race used to be a reliably entertaining fight between outsize personalities and master operators. Now it’s a snooze fest.

With any luck, Donald Trump’s catastrophic tenure will be the nail in the coffin of the worst idea in politics: that the government can be run like a corporation.

It may turn out that Donald Trump was the one force keeping the Democratic Party together.

Republicans have run the place into the ground. Yet voters keep electing them to state and national office. Why?

South Carolina’s Trump-loving senator draws national heat—and a worthy opponent, for once.

Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and other moderates claim they Get Things Done—but not because they actually do get things done.

It’s not just Democratic leaders who recoiled at the thought of nominating the democratic socialist.

For a brief, mad moment, Michael Bloomberg illuminated the rot at the core of this new Gilded Age.

The former New York City mayor’s failed campaign was an act of ritual humiliation—and an investment in himself.

How a political culture obsessed with decorum is distorting our understanding of power and its consequences

She has been criticized for declining to attack Bernie Sanders. But there’s a very good reason to focus on the billionaire former mayor instead.

The South Carolina debate was more like a buyers’ showroom than a public service.

Why Sanders’s haters keep finding similarities between two politicians who could not be more different

The knives came out in Wednesday’s debate, a portent of much more consequential fights to come in 2020.

The former New York mayor isn’t subverting the American electoral system. He’s exploiting its intentional flaws.

The billionaire is skyrocketing in the presidential polls—thanks to tricks he learned as mayor.

The Republican mayor hasn’t quite bought enough of the party to win its nomination, but it’s too close for comfort.

The rich, Jewish, former mayor of New York is spending millions on this election. Can we criticize him without perpetuating harmful stereotypes?

He never hid his callous indifference to civil liberties; too many people just didn't care.

Both Mike Bloomberg and Tom Steyer could be spending their prodigious wealth in much more effective ways. Instead, they're funding vanity campaigns.