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December 17, 2015
Brian Beutler
The Rubio-Cruz Clash Has Donald Trump Laughing All the Way to the Bank
December 17, 2015
Ryan Kearney
Bernie Sanders just singed Hillary Clinton with a sick burn.
December 16, 2015
Brian Beutler
There’s Nothing Radical About Republicans’ Foreign Policy
Only xenophobia and blustering rhetoric set their ideas apart from Hillary Clinton's.
December 16, 2015
Laura Reston
Hillary Clinton boogied with foreign dictators last night—on Snapchat.
December 16, 2015
Ryu Spaeth
Curious who won the Republican debate? Let’s ask Politico’s “GOP Insiders.”
December 16, 2015
Jamil Smith
How Rand Paul Proved His Usefulness
While the other Republicans spent debate night measuring their manhood, the senator from Kentucky provided the lone voice of reason.
December 16, 2015
Ryu Spaeth
Read Donald Trump’s stirring soliloquy on the senselessness of war.
December 16, 2015
Ryu Spaeth
Who won the GOP debate?
December 16, 2015
Suzy Khimm
Jeb Bush’s Empty Triumph Over Donald Trump
He landed a lot of punches, but also exposed the Republican Party's lack of a credible alternative to the front-runner's bellicosity.
December 16, 2015
Ryu Spaeth
Donald Trump’s Jedi mind trick is his pledge to the Republican Party.
December 16, 2015
MagazineJeet Heer
The GOP is the Party of Fear
How did fear come to loom so large in Republican rhetoric?
December 16, 2015
Rebecca Leber
If you blinked, you would have missed the only time the Paris climate talks came up in the GOP debate.
December 16, 2015
Laura Reston
Ted Cruz finally located Marco Rubio’s weak spot: immigration.
December 16, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Donald Trump and Jeb Bush finally gave us the glorious manly-man brawl over “toughness” we’ve all been waiting for.
December 16, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Fear of terrorism, kind of like climate change and Obamacare, is turning into another polarized issue.
December 16, 2015
Laura Reston
Ted Cruz is wilting under fierce attacks from Marco Rubio.
December 16, 2015
Bijan Stephen
John Kasich apparently has no sense of time.
December 16, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Maybe Donald Trump can rally Silicon Valley nerds to change ISIS’s wifi password!
December 16, 2015
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Jeb Bush calls Donald Trump the “chaos candidate.”
December 16, 2015
Emma Foehringer Merchant, Gwyneth Kelly, Laura Reston
Highlights from the Fifth Republican Debate
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