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Election 2016
May 19, 2016
Jeet Heer
Trump’s “fascist” roots lie in the Republican Party.
May 19, 2016
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Donald Trump Is America’s Racist Uncle
Calling him out on his bigotry is futile.
May 19, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Donald Trump is going to make sure we hear a lot about that old rape allegation against Bill Clinton.
May 19, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump jumped to conclusions about EgyptAir flight MS804.
May 19, 2016
PodcastPrimary Concerns
Primary Concerns Episode 14: Two Republicans Duke It Out Over Trump
Not every fight has to end with broken friendships.
May 18, 2016
Jeet Heer
When It Comes to Losing Ugly, Bernie Has Nothing on Hillary
The Democratic primary could be worse: It could be 2008 all over again.
May 18, 2016
Gwyneth Kelly
All 11 of Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominees are white.
May 18, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Bernie Sanders is starting to get the “everybody hates Ted Cruz” treatment.
May 18, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
Can Megyn Kelly Become the Taylor Swift of TV News?
Her Donald Trump interview was her latest play for mainstream success—and she's got something Katie Couric doesn't.
May 18, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
It’s surprisingly hard to attack Donald Trump.
May 18, 2016
Alex Shephard
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are basically tied in Kentucky.
May 18, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump doesn’t read books.
May 18, 2016
Alex Shephard
Some Democrats are getting very antsy about Bernie Sanders.
May 17, 2016
Adam Peck
Donald Trump is one of those people who thinks The Onion is a real newspaper.
May 17, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Bernie Sanders’s response to pandemonium at the Nevada Democratic Convention: *shrug*.
May 17, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Why Trump will have trouble attacking Hillary from her left.
May 17, 2016
Jeet Heer
How Donald Trump Plans to Crash Through the Media’s Gatekeepers
He's poised to mainstream the most lurid anti-Clinton conspiracy theories you can (or can't) imagine.
May 16, 2016
Adam Peck
The GOP’s most dependable sugar daddies might be putting away the checkbook.
May 16, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Donald Trump is the ultimate test of negative partisanship.
May 16, 2016
Brian Beutler
The Wackiest Donald Trump Conspiracy Theory Yet
Did the media sit on damaging revelations until they'd helped him secure the GOP nomination?

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