David Weigel

The Vermont senator’s 2016 presidential campaign grew from a left-wing insurgency to a force that reshaped the Democratic Party.

The top ranks of the Republican Party may be coalescing around Donald Trump, but grass-roots conservative activists are still trying to find a way to stop him at the party's convention in July.

In the end, it was the voters of Indiana last week who effectively gave the country the outcome that had loomed for months. The 2016 election will likely put Hillary Clinton, who is disliked by a majority of voters, against Donald Trump, disliked by another and more intense majority of voters.

Marco Rubio and Donald Trump emerged Friday as the principal antagonists in an all-out brawl for the future of the Republican Party.

An angry Nevada GOP electorate hungry for a political outsider in the White House handed Trump his third straight win in the primary race as the billionaire mogul used visceral rhetoric to tap into anxieties about the economy, terrorism and immigration.

The would-be presidents of the United States agree on at least one thing: All of them will fight the "establishment." All agree that this "establishment" has held Americans back too long. All agree that the "establishment" is pulling the strings and levers behind their opponents. They just can't agree on who the "establishment" is.

Much like in Washington, where the abrupt withdrawal from the speaker's race of Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., signaled total party chaos, the view is fading that, eventually, this presidential race will get back to normal.

The rise of Donald Trump and of Ben Carson, two first-time candidates who prefer broad political strokes to policy debates, has left the Republican establishment looking confused and helpless.