THINKERS

Newly-released documents from ‘Trump University’ show the billionaire’s real estate courses were shams

There was less shouting but Rubio still denies man-made climate change, Cruz blames Obama for violence at rallies and Trump still likes the idea of torture

The US Republican front-runner often complains that he’s been dismissed by the media. But it’s not him 
that the pundits are contemptuous of — it’s his supporters

Don’t blame Trump or pity him: Bush bungled his own campaign from the start and may have ended a dynasty of genteel political malfeasance and mass death

Like the movie ‘Memento’, reality resets every 24 hours in the American political consciousness, and what is real is whatever the politicians need it to be

Voters can easily stop liking one candidate and pick another, similar one instead, so there’s no reason for them to quit the primary

After the third Republican debate, there’s a kind of empty despair at the back of Jeb Bush’s eyes. As for Rand Paul, he was barely there. Both should defer to reality

The event made politics, temporarily, feel like something done by people who read actual books instead of talking points

Though he has some of the same baggage as the Democratic frontrunner, the US vice-president has the white, male, non-socialist thing going for him

The Republican governor of Ohio would make for an interesting candidate if anyone cared more about politics than a man making a spectacle of himself

Fellow Republican presidential hopefuls have not exactly lined up to condemn Trump’s nasty sentiments on Latinos

The New Jersey Governor has finally made it official that he is running for the GOP nomination — or at least for conservatives’ speaking fees

Embracing her so tightly doesn’t reflect well on the people at the other end