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

His rise has led the media to look everywhere except the ballot box for the real winner of elections in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Pundits are always trying to titillate their audience with new predictions—and failing to account for their past failures.

For years, the party has pushed for lackluster military candidates and a "camouflage wave." In 2020, many veterans on the left have different ideas.

Who's going to pick up his mantle as the establishment favorite?

Sanders's New Hampshire operation is a model for fusing movement politics with a presidential campaign. Can he replicate that model across the country?

Why the New Hampshire primary could surprise us

The lack of immediate voting results led journalists and candidates to feed needless narratives about corruption and incompetence.

The Minnesota senator may be peaking at just the right moment.

The former vice president is drawing tiny, unenthused crowds in Iowa. So why is he still one of the front-runners?

Why the candidates, wisely, refused to go for the jugular in the final Democratic debate before the Iowa caucuses

Thursday's debate featured few gotcha moments and many familiar shticks.

For months, the Democratic presidential field has seemed to relish expanding the universe of policy possibility, but that energy stalled in Thursday night's debate.

How the don't-blame-me Democratic chair mucked up the debates

He’s called for an end to “forever wars,” but the Afghanistan veteran’s security strategy sounds more like the status quo.

The Minnesota senator is pitching herself as a more electable, funnier alternative to the other moderates in the race.

All presidential candidates have controversial entries on their résumés.

By constantly tallying candidates' fundraising hauls, journalists perpetuate a misleading narrative about how elections are won.

Political pundits misunderstand what motivates the former New York mayor.

A lifelong obsession with reforming the Democratic Party's rhetoric has trapped the South Bend mayor in the politics of the past.