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In the run-up to the 2016 election, Republicans are trying to position themselves as the party of the middle class. In a recent essay, Thomas Edsall writes, “The Republican appropriation of leftist populist rhetoric (and even policies) poses a significant threat to liberal prospects in 2016.” It may well work, but not because Republicans are in fact reformist, but rather because voters and

Tuesday marks the end of the third fundraising quarter—the last round of campaign-finance filings that candidate committees are required to file before their pre-election disclosures—and candidates and party committees have been furiously fundraising in recent days in an effort to give their numbers a last-minute boost.

While committees aren’t required to submit their disclosures until

If you are a Democrat, would you marry a Republican? Would you be upset if your sister did?

Researchers have long asked such questions about race, and have found that along important dimensions, racial prejudice is decreasing. At the same time, party prejudice in the U.S. has jumped, infecting not only politics but also decisions about dating, marriage and hiring. By some measures, "

House Democrats, frustrated by President Trump’s efforts to stonewall their investigations and eager to stoke public anger about the president’s behavior, are pinning their diminishing hopes on Robert S. Mueller III yet again.

They had a plan: dramatize the special counsel’s damning but dense report on national television in their committees, animating his prose with vivid testimony