Why GOP elites are totally ignoring a political reality that could destroy their party  —  For months now, the race for the Republican presidential nomination has actually been split into two races.  —  In the one that gets talked about the most by the professional political press …

In new shock poll, Sanders has landslides over both Trump and Bush  —  In a new McClatchy-Marist poll, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) leads Republican candidate Donald Trump by a landslide margin of 12 percentage points, 53 to 41.

FBI expands probe of Clinton emails, launches independent classification review  —  The FBI has expanded its probe of Hillary Clinton's emails, with agents exploring whether multiple statements violate a federal false statements statute, according to intelligence sources familiar with the ongoing case.

Trump talks Clinton's ‘massive’ new hairdo  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump said Wednesday he was shocked to see Hillary Clinton's latest hairdo, calling it “massive” in an interview on conservative talk radio.  —  Asked by host Mark Levin what Clinton's appeal to voters is, Trump simply said …

Chris Christie: College unrest a product of ‘lawlessness’ that Obama allows  —  MUSCATAINE, Iowa — In his first campaign stops after a well-received performance in Fox Business's “undercard” GOP presidential primary debate, Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) mixed raw talk about addiction …

Missouri state senator aims to block student's dissertation on abortion  —  Exclusive interview: Missouri grad student defends research on how state's required abortion wait affects women  —  A University of Missouri doctoral student plans to continue research for her dissertation on the effects …

Mizzou, Yale and Free Speech  —  On university campuses across the country, from Mizzou to Yale, we have two noble forces colliding with explosive force.  —  One is a concern for minority or marginalized students and faculty members, who are often left feeling as outsiders in ways that damage everyone's education.

Promised Bipartisanship, Obama Adviser Found Disappointment  —  WASHINGTON — When President Obama first won the White House, he recruited Ray LaHood, a Republican congressman, to join his cabinet.  The appointment, Mr. Obama declared, “reflects that bipartisan spirit” that would distinguish his presidency.

Hillary Clinton's claim that she tried to join the Marines  —  “He looks at me and goes, 'Um, how old are you.  And I said, ‘Well I am 26, I will be 27.’ And he goes, ‘Well, that is kind of old for us.’ And then he says to me, and this is what gets me, ‘Maybe the dogs will take you,’ meaning the Army.”

Students across U.S. to march over debt, free public college  —  Students were set to walk out of classrooms across the United States on Thursday to protest ballooning student loan debt for higher education and rally for tuition-free public colleges and a minimum wage hike for campus workers.

Missouri student files complaint against professor who called for ‘muscle’  —  The University of Missouri student who filmed assistant professor Melissa Click call for “muscle” to eject him from a protest site on campus says he has filed a complaint with police alleging simple assault.

Why aren't Hillary Clinton's exaggerations of her life story bigger news?  —  Hillary Clinton tells a story of how she tried to join the Marines in 1975 but was rejected because she was too old.  The problem?  The story may not be totally true.  —  As The Post's Fact Checker illustrates …

Republicans divided over how far to go with ObamaCare repeal  —  Senate Republicans are divided over how far to go with an ObamaCare repeal bill they plan to send to the president's desk by year's end.  —  Senate GOP leaders have told their members they will repeal as much of the 2010 healthcare reform law …

Mizzou Demonstrators Segregate White Allies to Form ‘Black Only Healing Space’  —  Student protesters at the University of Missouri asked white supporters to leave Wednesday night in order to create a “black only healing space.”  —  Steve Schmidt, an activist who was at the protest …

Ben Carson: If Russian Planes Enter No-Fly Zone, “You Shoot Them Down, Absolutely”  —  Ben Carson says if the United States were to establish a no-fly zone in Syria and Russian planes were to enter it, then those planes would have to be shot down.  —  The Republican presidential candidate …

A new trigger warning for college kids: How to prepare them for the intellectual discomforts of a university  —  Though I'm as strong an advocate as you'll find of free speech and thick skins, I feel some sympathy for the Yale student whose meltdown in a university courtyard went viral …

Racial Discrimination Protests Ignite at Colleges Across the U.S.  —  The passion that ousted the heads of the University of Missouri after protests over racial discrimination on campus is spreading to other colleges across the country, turning traditional fall semesters into a period …

Boehner resignation leads to election oddity  —  Scroll to the bottom of this story for a complete breakdown of important upcoming election dates.  —  It's unlikely to happen, but voters could elect two different congressmen to fill John Boehner's vacated seat in the March primary.

David Vitter's Race for Governor Could Bring the Senate Together  —  After a rough and highly personal debate in the Louisiana governor's race on Tuesday night, all eyes in the Senate are on David Vitter, the Louisiana Republican who is in a pitched battle to win the governor's mansion back home.

The United States Doesn't Spend Enough on Its Military  —  Our future, and the future of our allies, depends on it.  —  At Tuesday's GOP presidential debate in Milwaukee, Rand Paul railed against Marco Rubio for calling for increases to the military budget: “How is it conservative to add a trillion dollars in military expenditures?

What do people see in Ben Carson?  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  In sixth grade — you'll have to excuse me if I'm fuzzy on the details; this happened more than a decade ago - my English teacher gave our class a reading assignment about world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson.