Condemning executive-branch overreach is clearly the GOP party line for 2016.

Bigotry is now being passed off as a kind of straight talk.

Immigrants save nine states from population losses.

Obama revisits the fear of demographic change.

Latest Republican debate boosted Trump, ISIS and anxiety.

Big donors are complaining about their bad investments in presidential politics.

Outrageous statements can become ends in themselves.

The president can't cross divide on perceptions of threat from ISIS.

Anti-government voters have driven the shift against gun control.

The U.S. is divided over whether things are O.K. or terrible.