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January 13, 2016
Brian Beutler
Republican Party elites are starting to indicate that Rubio should be the guy to take on Cruz and Trump.
January 13, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Everything’s coming up Ted Cruz.
January 13, 2016
Suzy Khimm
Obama: America Is Great Again Already
The president rejected the Republican narrative of decay and weakness in his last State of the Union address.
January 13, 2016
Jeet Heer
Nikki Haley’s Two-Front War
In her State of the Union response, Haley had to fight both Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
January 13, 2016
Jeet Heer
Obama continues to argue that Trumpism is driven by economic insecurity.
January 12, 2016
Jeet Heer
Nikki Haley Will Be Responding to Trump, not Obama
The South Carolina governor is the GOP's answer to Trumpism—but it's not enough.
January 12, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
What Explains the Trump-Sanders Crossover Vote?
They speak to the same American anxieties—even though they offer radically different solutions.
January 12, 2016
Jeet Heer
David Brooks decries Ted Cruz’s “tribalist” politics but engages in some of his own.
January 12, 2016
Brian Beutler
The First Speech of Obama’s Post-Presidency
Tuesday’s State of the Union is an opportunity for him to begin writing the next chapter.
January 12, 2016
Jeet Heer
Iowa Will Not Be Donald Trump’s Waterloo
Despite the pundits' almost universal predictions, the mogul and his white identity politics can weather a few losses.
January 11, 2016
Brian Beutler
Will the GOP’s Identity Politics Doom Marco Rubio?
The Republican base is old, cantankerous, and white. Senator Rubio is not.
January 9, 2016
Jeet Heer
The Republican Party is running the first X-rated presidential primary in American history.
January 8, 2016
Brian Beutler
Republicans have weird ideas about what’s good and bad about Donald Trump.
January 8, 2016
Meaghan Murphy
Jeb Bush has reached a new level of unpopularity.
January 8, 2016
Adam Peck
Guns, guns everywhere in Donald Trump’s America.
January 7, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Ted Cruz birtherism is tearing the conservative movement apart.
January 7, 2016
Brian Beutler
John McCain’s gone full birther!
January 7, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
After Trump’s Burlington rally this evening, Sanders aides say they’ll shovel “what the cow leaves on the barn floor.”
January 7, 2016
Jeet Heer
Ted Cruz Is All Alone
Now that he has fallen out of favor with Donald Trump, the Texas senator is left to fend for himself.
January 7, 2016
Brian Beutler
Ted Cruz Is Exactly What the Political System Needs
Why Republicans and Democrats alike should welcome his nomination.

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