published Apr 10th 2016, 9:47 am, by Albert R. Hunt (Bloomberg View) — When House Speaker Paul Ryan released a video laying out his familiar theme that politics should be fought on ideas and issues, the Drudge Report’s headline was: “Paul Ryan launches his first campaign ad.” A dream of

published Oct 17th 2016, 8:30 am, by Leonid Bershidsky (Bloomberg View) — Forty-one years ago, 14 people gathered in a small room on California Boulevard in Fayetteville, Arkansas, for the wedding of an aspiring local politician and his law school sweetheart from up north. The bride was wearing a $53