Business is booming for the guy who helped launch the political careers of Tea Partiers like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. By Jason Zengerle.

Pundit Bill Kristol has a spotty track record for predictions, but it hasn’t stopped the forecasts from coming. By Paul Farhi. (Feb. 17)

Hillary Clinton, liberal virtue, and the cult of the microloan. By Thomas Frank.

If Trump is a judgment on the GOP, he's also a judgment on conservative Christians. By Rod Dreher.

The religious voters Cruz was counting on are ditching the Bible thumper for Donald Trump. By Tina Nguyen.

There were stays at boutique hotels featuring rooftop pools, private soirees at members-only, jacket-and-tie clubs and fundraisers at the Four Seasons, the St. Regis and the Mandarin Oriental. By Michelle Conlin and Grant Smith.

Is there a greater democratic show on earth than the American presidential election? Indian polls, where elephants ferry electronic voting machines into the foothills of the Himalayas and pyrotechnics explode at the moment of victory, are doubtless more picturesque. Afghan votes, where women queue at polling stations dressed in sky-blue burkas, and warlords darken the process with their guns and menace, are more epic.

Equal parts drill sergeant, data junkie, brawler, and entrepreneur, Jeff Roe will do anything to win. Just watch. By Andy Kroll.

Republicans have engaged in a lot of pandering and race-baiting, but that's not the whole story. Democrats done nothing to change the vicious cycle of wealth and power that has rigged the economy for the benefit of those at the top, and undermined the working class. In some respects, Democrats have been complicit in it.

The animosity between the two men began after Mr. Cruz invoked Mr. Dole’s name as an example of the missteps the party had made with past presidential nominees — as in, “Remember President Dole? Remember President McCain? Remember President Romney?” By Maggie Haberman.

Track Palin was arrested hours before his mother formally endorsed Donald Trump for president.

Among the revelations in Dark Money, Jane Mayer’s expansive new book on the Koch brothers and the rise of contemporary American conservatism, is that Fred Koch, the billionaire duo’s father, once helped build an oil refinery in Nazi Germany. The New York Times broke that item last week, but left out a key detail from the book: allied forces bombed the refinery during World War II.

What are we talking about exactly, and why is this causing so much discussion? By Jeremy Fox.

Birthers, internet commenters, and the "mantle of anger" take their places on stage. By Pema Levy and Patrick Caldwell.

On the road with a man so angry he scares Democrats, too. By Jonno Rattman.

Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul dismisses Ted Cruz's effort to win over his father Ron Paul's 2012 supporters, saying that group of libertarian-minded voters aren't "very excited about making the sand glow in the Middle East." By Reid J. Epstein.

Statistics point to conspiracy theories, mediocre wages and a deeply held belief that this group is anything but racist. By Mona Chalabi.

On inherited power, wealthy patrons, religion and politics, populism, and more. By Alissa Ardito.

In their own voices, a tale of a bizarre beginning to the Republican presidential race. By Dan Balz, Philip Rucker, Robert Costa and Matea Gold. (Jan. 3)

A year ago, Trump was a joke and Paul was rising. But now that their fortunes have flipped, is it fair to say libertarianism is finally dead? By Nick Gillespie.