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Election 2016
March 23, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Even Mitt Romney is making crass jokes about people’s wives now.
March 23, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
With Jeb Bush’s endorsement of Ted Cruz, the GOP is caught between a rock and a hard place.
March 23, 2016
Navneet Alang
Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore, But We Should Still Make Fun of Him Online
March 23, 2016
David Dayen
Is Retaking the House a Democratic Pipe Dream?
If Trump drags down the GOP candidates, there's a chance. But there are also a lot of obstacles—of the Democrats' own making.
March 23, 2016
Eric Sasson
The Human Rights Campaign Is Proving Bernie Right
By endorsing a Republican senator, the LGBT advocacy group has stirred deep resentment even among its supporters.
March 22, 2016
Brian Beutler
Donald Trump reveals the GOP playbook on terrorism and most other things.
March 22, 2016
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump’s Huge Problem With Women
The Republican frontrunner can't handle being mocked by the opposite gender. Hillary Clinton is surely taking note.
March 22, 2016
Steven Cohen
Why Bernie’s Foreign Policy Is More Important Than Ever
Sanders has a new responsibility to drive the politics of national security in a better direction.
March 21, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
Look, Donald Trump seriously doesn’t care what you say about his hands, he doesn’t, honestly, it’s just that you mentioned it, and...
March 21, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
A middle-schooler’s hand-drawn Ted Cruz campaign poster asks the most important question about stopping ISIS: “How?”
March 21, 2016
Brian Beutler
The Right’s Unimaginative Effort to Escape Blame for Trump
#ThanksObama?
March 21, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
The anti-Trump plan to launch a third-party bid has one fatal flaw.
March 21, 2016
Daniel Benaim, Perry Cammack
How Trumpism Went Global
The U.S. isn't the only country grappling with the rise of a demagogue.
March 18, 2016
Clio Chang
Mitt Romney thinks a vote for John Kasich is a vote for “Trumpism.”
March 18, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
“What the f--k were we thinking?” asks the head of Jeb’s super PAC.
March 18, 2016
Adam Peck
Stephen Colbert bids adieu to Marco Rubio and his jokes about Donald Trump’s small hands.
March 18, 2016
Eric Sasson
Who Is the Hillary Voter?
The media is obsessed with the Sanders voter and the Trump voter. Yet it is the Hillary voter who may have the last laugh.
March 18, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
David Brooks is standing athwart history, yelling, “Never Trump!”
March 18, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
#NeverTrump is starting to look like #MaybeTrump.
March 18, 2016
PodcastPrimary Concerns
Primary Concerns Episode 6: Super Twosday, Supreme Wednesday
The aftermath of the week's primaries, and a special discussion of Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.

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