The Candidates

WIN OR LOSE, THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT AND HIS INNER CIRCLE WILL WAKE UP ON NOV. 9 WITH A DIGITAL MARKETING OPERATION THAT COULD POWER, SAY, A TV NETWORK, OR A POLITICAL MOVEMENT THAT EVISCERATES THE GOP

DONALD TRUMP HAS A PLAN TO WIN even if he loses, which is looking more likely by the day. You can hear him lay out the strategy every time he climbs a stage in these final weeks of the campaign. At a brisk October outdoor rally in a parking lot behind a Toyota dealership in New Hampshire, he hammered home the message that has formed the heart of his campaign in recent week

THE CALL TO GATHER WENT OUT SUNDAY MORNING, arriving on cell phones before many of the pastors had left their congregations. These 23 men and three women, all members of Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory council, had long ago signed on to pray for his vision for the nation. But now a scandalous recording from Access Hollywood was threatening to blow up the prayer circle.

AS HILLARY CLINTON PREPARED TO LAUNCH HER PRESIDENTIAL campaign early last year, the former Secretary of State wanted her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to keep one last, lucrative speech on his schedule. Her husband’s sponsor: the financial giant Morgan Stanley. The gig, her aides protested, was a terrible idea. Furor over Wall Street’s greed was raging in the h

IN THE MIDST OF OUR BOUNTIFUL OCTOBER HARVEST OF Trump grotesqueries, the Russians and Julian Assange organized a WikiLeaks dump of private emails from the Clinton campaign. These revealed a shocking and scandalous fact about the former Secretary of State: she is a politician. Indeed, the documents represent one of the most reassuring moments of this calamitous campaign. T

IN A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE conspicuously devoid of substantive policy or civil agreement, there was one notable exception. By the end of the town-hall showdown on Oct. 9, it was clear both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton agreed that President Obama’s signature health care law, the Affordable Care Act, is flawed. Their subsequent scuffle was not over whether the law is broke