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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
Brian Beutler
Why aren’t Hillary and Bernie pushing the public option?
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
Brian Beutler
The new anti-Rubio ad by Jeb Bush’s super PAC is hilariously bad.
January 12, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
What’s worse, having a father that helped the Nazis or blackmailing your gay brother?
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
Rebecca Leber
This endorsement secures Marco Rubio’s spot as 2016’s most dangerous candidate for the climate.
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
Ryu Spaeth
Here’s today’s Ted Cruz birther watch.
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
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Ben of Ben & Jerry’s wants to make a Bernie Sanders flavor that is a metaphor for smashing the elite.
January 8, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
It’s easy to forget that Jeb Bush is also scary conservative.
January 8, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
The economy added 2.7 million jobs in 2015.
January 8, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Was Obama’s Times op-ed on gun control a dig at Bernie Sanders?
January 7, 2016
Gwyneth Kelly
Hillary Clinton would like you to please stop taking so many selfies with her.
January 7, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Ted Cruz birtherism is tearing the conservative movement apart.
January 7, 2016
Laura Reston
Marco Rubio is (not so subtly) reminding Iowa evangelicals he believes in God.

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