While he has very little support among party elites, Cruz seems to believe that Republican voters are hungry for a candidate who will challenge their party’s foreign policy at the ideological level. By Jonathan Chait.

Will the GOP as we know it survive 2016? By David Frum.

How a group of radical conservatives ousted John Boehner—and pushed Congress to the right. By Ryan Lizza.

Official working on Senate campaigns advises tapping Trump’s tactics, tone and look — but not getting too close. By Robert Costa and Philip Rucker.

When the clock strikes midnight tonight, it may well toll the end of the best day in the speakership of Paul Ryan... By John Lawrence.

A new paper by Jackie Calmes, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Spring 2015) and national correspondent for The New York Times, examines the increasing influence of conservative media on the Republican Party’s agenda.

In joining the 2016 presidential campaign, he promises to bring to the U.S. the brand of tough-minded conservative politics that drove his rise in Wisconsin.

It was the correct ruling, but John Roberts's dissent completely outmatched him.

There is overwhelming evidence of widespread civil-rights violations and unlawful brutality. Yet the movement's reflex is still to ignore or deny the problem. By Conor Friedersdorf

This “free trade” legislation will allow companies to export jobs and import cheap goods at the expense of the American worker.