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Republican Primary 2016
January 21, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Are you a fan of the Eagles? You might be a Republican.
January 21, 2016
Jeet Heer
Stephen Colbert agrees that Sarah Palin is a poet.
January 21, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
Is Ted Cruz a faux-Evangelical?
January 21, 2016
Jeet Heer
The Classier of Two Evils
How hated is Ted Cruz? Many in the GOP establishment prefer Donald Trump.
January 20, 2016
Jeet Heer
Yes, there’s a connection between My Little Pony, Donald Trump, and white identity politics.
January 20, 2016
Jeet Heer
Sarah Palin: The Walt Whitman of Wasilla
Donald Trump's new sidekick belongs to a noble American poetic tradition.
January 20, 2016
Steven Cohen
Is there anything Barack Obama can’t be blamed for?
January 20, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
The roots of Ted Cruz’s attack on Donald Trump’s “New York values” run deep.
January 20, 2016
David Dayen
Rubio to Flint: Drop Dead
Republican candidates can’t be bothered with the mass contamination of an American city—not when the public is potentially, hypothetically endangered by ISIS.
January 20, 2016
Brian Beutler
How the Bernie-Hillary Fight Over Obamacare Is Putting the GOP to Shame
The very existence of the Democratic debate over health care indicts the Republican Party's near-total indifference to the issue.
January 20, 2016
MagazineAndy Kroll
Ted Cruz’s Howitzer
Equal parts drill sergeant, data junkie, brawler, and entrepreneur, Jeff Roe will do anything to win. Just watch.
January 20, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
The saddest part of Sarah Palin’s bonkers speech endorsing Donald Trump.
January 19, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
The GOP has only itself to blame for Donald Trump, and Sarah Palin proves it.
January 19, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Is Ted Cruz likable enough? Donald Trump hopes not.
January 19, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Mike Huckabee has never tasted beer.
January 19, 2016
Jeet Heer
John Wayne would have loved Donald Trump since both men are racists.
January 19, 2016
Jeet Heer
Bully Pulpit
Donald Trump's tribalist brand of Christianity, trumpeted on Monday at Liberty University, is winning votes but dividing the faithful.
January 15, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Ted Cruz was good last night. But he wasn’t that good.
January 15, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Who won the GOP debate?
January 15, 2016
Rebecca Leber
The Republican Candidates Can’t Say How Obama Wrecked the Economy
Fear-mongering about ISIS is just so much easier.

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