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Election 2016
May 11, 2017
Moira Donegan
Trump’s “voter fraud” commission is being led by the GOP’s self-deportation architect.
Kris Kobach of Kansas is set to lead the new "Election Integrity" commission. That should terrify everyone.
May 11, 2017
Alex Shephard
By firing James Comey, Donald Trump torpedoed his own presidency.
May 10, 2017
Alex Shephard
The Republican response to James Comey’s firing has been pathetic.
May 9, 2017
Graham Vyse
Donald Trump won because white people felt frightened.
May 9, 2017
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump can’t get over Michael Flynn.
May 9, 2017
Alex Shephard
James Comey was extremely careless in his testimony about Hillary Clinton’s emails.
May 8, 2017
Alex Shephard
Republicans are running interference for Trump on the Flynn-Russia scandal.
May 8, 2017
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump is terrified of Sally Yates.
May 3, 2017
Graham Vyse
Trump’s Ignorance Is Radicalizing U.S. Historians
They're in great demand by the media. But will many Americans even believe what they’re saying, or accuse them of partisan bias?
May 3, 2017
Alex Shephard
David Axelrod is still schooling Hillary Clinton.
May 2, 2017
Graham Vyse
Hillary Clinton doesn’t know what cost her the presidency.
April 28, 2017
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump’s presidency is almost 100 days old, and he is not having fun.
April 28, 2017
Primary Concerns
Does Glenn Greenwald Owe Brian Beutler a Coke?
You decide!
April 24, 2017
Alex Shephard
Trump’s Wall won’t stop the flood of drugs into the United States.
April 24, 2017
Scott Lemieux
The 2016 Election Could Have Killed the Death Penalty
Instead, our broken system may well be entrenched for more than a generation.
April 21, 2017
Alex Shephard
This is the most damning anecdote from the Clinton campaign tell-all Shattered.
April 21, 2017
Graham Vyse
Why Bernie Sanders’s Unity Tour Failed
The independent senator hit the road with Democratic national chairman Tom Perez—and highlighted everything that's tearing the party apart.
April 21, 2017
Brian Beutler
When Donald Trump Needs a Win, America Loses
His ego is driving life-and-death decisions. The results could be disastrous.
April 20, 2017
Brian Beutler
The Democrats’ Existential Crisis Won’t Resolve Itself
The party will have to fix it—and here's how they might do so.
April 19, 2017
Jeet Heer
Stop Obsessing Over Hillary Clinton. It’s Pointless.
Democrats need to understand what went wrong in 2016, but focusing on Clinton is a dead end.

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