Across the continent, rightwing populist parties have seized control of the political conversation. How have they done it? By stealing the language, causes and voters of the traditional left. By Sasha Polakow-Suransky.

At 48, the Front National leader can afford to play a long game, and she’s running rings around the mainstream right. By Jonathan Fenby.

His advisers are working hard to plan out their own futures while riding out the roller-coaster end of the election. By Gabriel Sherman.

The Republican candidate and his inner circle have built a direct marketing operation that could power a TV network—or finish off the GOP. By Joshua Green and Sasha Issenberg

The decision by the Republican candidate, described to The Post by his finance chairman, deals another serious blow to the GOP's ability to finance get-out-the-vote efforts before Election Day. By Matea Gold.

Win, lose or drop out, the Republican nominee has laid waste to the American political system. On the trail for the last gasp of the ugliest campaign in our nation’s history. By Matt Taibbi.

"There will be the alt-right party; then there will be a center-right conservative party." — Steve Schmidt, interviewed by Andrew Prokop.

In Britain and the United States, it’s older working-class voters who are alienated and looking to blow up the system. In France, it’s young people. By Claire Sergent and Katy Lee.

It wasn’t a coordinated effort, and there is only one way to stop it. By T. A. Frank.

The talk-radio host claims that he never took Donald Trump seriously on immigration. If so, he neglected to tell his immigration obsessed listeners. By Conor Friedersdorf.

Conservatism in the tank. By Jim Newell.

How the term ‘progressive’ became an empty marketing tool for corporate Democrats. By Kathleen Geier.

Quote By A Smart Person: “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” — Jeanette Rankin. Welcome to the American Singularity. By Reed Galen.

Paul Ryan’s primary opponent says a vote for him is “a vote for every person who never got to go out for a steak dinner with lobbyists for the Chamber of Commerce.” By Zaid Jilani.

Julie Anderson

As the tragic pattern of gun violence continues, the N.R.A. faces a genuine threat to its future: a growing divide between its ferocious leadership and sportsman rank-and-file. By Sarah Ellison.

Last January, the unpronounceable Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, surveying his party’s throng of presidential aspirants, tweeted: ‘It’s clear we’ve got the most well-qualified and diverse field of candidates from any party in history.’ Why, the world wonders, did they end up with Donald Trump as their nominee? By Eliot Weinberger.

As the Republican National Convention nears, there is growing talk of a palace — or party — coup to wrest the nomination from Donald J. Trump, or at least stage a public protest against him. By Sam Tanenhaus.

Donald Trump’s comments about Mexican immigrants and Muslims have been at the center of his campaign. And his pronouncements on these topics have greatly concerned many Republican leaders and elected officials who feared they would harm the party’s image and damage its electoral prospects. But how did his positions and comments play with Republican primary voters? The clear answer is that they reflected the views of likely Republican voters extremely well. By Ronald B. Rapoport, Alan I. Abramowitz, and Walter J. Stone. (June 23, 2016)

Gary Johnson is the anti-Ron Paul. By Justin Raimondo.