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2016 presidential primary

The World

On presidential debate nights, her job is yuge

Global Politics

Imagine that your job is captioning a presidential debate in which five candidates and a moderator are talking over each other. To millions of people. In real time.

Pola Hansberger

Trump won big on Super Tuesday. This Nicaraguan immigrant wants to make sure he keeps on winning.

Global Politics
trump-clinton

Can the media handle a contest between Clinton and Trump?

Global Politics
Clockwise from top left, any of these four could be the US' first female, Latino, Jewish or Latino president.

In this era of identity, are we actually voting less along identity lines?

Global Politics
Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz, left, and Marco Rubio, right, are Latino, but their experiences as such are different from a large number of the US' Latino population.

Would Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio do better if they were Afro-Latinos?

Global Politics
John Kasich

What are the GOP candidates saying about climate change?

Global Politics

All of the Democratic contenders have called for government action to address climate change, but there seems to be little appetite for that among the Republican candidates on the stump in New Hampshire, where the first primary is just a few short weeks away.

Bernie Sanders

Climate change takes center stage among the Democratic presidential candidates

Environment

In previous election cycles, climate change has been just one of a host of campaign issues — and a fairly minor one, at that. But, as the first Democratic debate demonstrated, this year could be very different, at least among the Democratic candidates for president.