A bill that started out ensuring cities couldn’t limit where pet stores purchase puppies grew Tuesday to also block cities from raising their minimum wages and provide an expedited process for AT&T to install equipment needed to bring next-generation 5G wireless connectivity to Ohio.

Strangling public-sector unions in Wisconsin has shrunk teachers’ pay and benefits. Who’s next?

Michigan's attorney general said on Friday he had filed a lawsuit to halt the Green Party's requested recount of presidential votes in the state, adding to Republican efforts in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to maintain Donald Trump's victory.

He’s an emotional weakling, and his recent interviews give us models for dealing with it. By William Saletan.

“I am not sure who that first woman is going to be but I know that you’re going to see one."

In a normal transition, there’s always disorder. This time may be much worse. By Eliot A. Cohen.

How Breitbart News rose on the darkest of money to hijack the conservative media – and how liberals helped them do it. By Matthew Phelan.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Thursday that Medicare has “serious problems” that would need to be addressed when Congress moves to repeal and replace President Obama’s health-care reform law — a signal that he is willing to immediately enter the treacherous politics of entitlement reform and perhaps break with President-elect Donald Trump.

“We came to this country as pioneers,” said one of the young men. “White people settled this country. Mexicans just came here.” By Mattathias Schwartz.

Donald Trump looks poised on the threshold of victory. After over a year of struggle, the Republican nominee has finally found his footing just as Clinton seems to have lost hers… By Mytheos Holt.

The folly of the masses has replaced the wisdom of crowds as the dominant theme of our politics. By John Gray.

The party sent a press release to reporters on Sunday trumpeting the fact that fewer black voters cast early ballots this year than they did in 2012. "African American Early Voting is down 8.5% from this time in 2012," the release read. "As a share of Early Voters, African Americans are down 6.0%." The statement also cheered the rise in white voters as compared to 2012. "The once dynamic Obama Coalition [is] crumbling and tired," said Robing Hayes, the North Carolina GOP chairman, saying the party's "motivated statewide volunteers and extensive ground game" are the reason for the good news.

*Submitter's Note: view this site in Privacy/Incognito mode.* In the final days of the presidential campaign, Mr. Trump’s candidacy is a jarring split screen: the choreographed show of calm and confidence orchestrated by his staff, and the neediness and vulnerability of a once-boastful candidate now uncertain of victory.

Four House Republicans, including a senior lawmaker close to leadership, told The Hill they expect Ryan to step down after Tuesday’s election, arguing that he faces a daunting path to the 218 votes he needs to win a full two-year term leading the House GOP. Aides to the Wisconsin Republican insist he isn’t going anywhere and say he’s completely focused right now on protecting the GOP’s historic majority in the lower chamber.

White nationalism is still marginal—but anti-globalism isn't. By Scott McConnell.

Given the likelihood (albeit a slightly diminishing one) of a Hillary Clinton victory next week, Senate Republicans are starting to shift the goalposts by suggesting they might opt to leave Scalia's seat open indefinitely if Clinton takes the White House.

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 Republican Party's grip on U.S. state legislatures could loosen in next month's election as Democrats seek to link Republican candidates to the sinking fortunes of the party's White House candidate, Donald Trump.

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.