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Donald Trump
August 17, 2015
Naomi Shavin
Donald Trump’s Immigration Reform Plan Would Be Unimaginably Expensive
August 17, 2015
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump, Epic Hero
The candidate's boasts and insults might seem juvenile, but his special way with words has a noble ancestry
August 10, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Donald Trump Brought Fox News to Its Knees
August 10, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
The Media's Tired "Trumped" Puns Are New. Getting "Trumped" Is Not.
The centuries-long history of a curious word
August 7, 2015
Adam Nathaniel Peck
The GOP Debate Was Donald Trump's Highest-Rated Reality Show, Ever
August 7, 2015
Steven Cohen
The Conservative Media Is Frightened of Donald Trump's Power Over the GOP
August 7, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Donald Trump Effect
His anti-immigrant rhetoric is shaping the Republican race—just look at Bobby Jindal
August 7, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Pro Wrestling Can Teach You Everything You Need to Know About the GOP Debate
Donald Trump is the perfect heel, and the Republican Party has no face
August 7, 2015
Suzy Khimm
Donald Trump Captures the Hearts of Young Republicans
At a GOP debate-watching party, even skeptics became fans by the end of the night
August 7, 2015
Brian Beutler
The Republican Party Can't Escape Its Past
August 6, 2015
Brian Beutler
Tonight’s Republican Debate Is the Party’s Worst Nightmare
August 5, 2015
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump Is a Serious Candidate
Don't listen to the media. The GOP's greatest troll has a real chance.
July 30, 2015
Laura Reston
Donald Trump Isn’t The First Know Nothing to Capture American Hearts
July 26, 2015
Jeet Heer
Conservatives Are Holding a Conversation About Race
An ugly term—“cuckservative”—crystallizes a Republican Party crisis.
July 23, 2015
Brian Beutler
Why Donald Trump Truly Terrifies Republicans
It’s not just the threat of a third-party challenge
July 22, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Get Your Trumpliment From the Donald Trump Compliment Generator
July 22, 2015
David Tobia
How Donald Trump Dominates the News
July 21, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Donald Trump Is Fox News Incarnate
Why Republicans can't disown their presidential frontrunner
July 20, 2015
Sam Wang
Donald Trump Is Not the Frontrunner. Smarter Polls Would Prove It.
July 9, 2015
Rebecca Leber
How to Piss Off Donald Trump
A guide for trolls, pundits, and political adversaries

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