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June 4, 2015
Rick Perry Isn't Telling You the Real Reason Texas Cut Carbon Pollution
May 6, 2015
Why Texans Freaked Out Over an Army Exercise—and Ted Cruz Validated Their Fears
March 5, 2015
Why Conservatives' Prison Reform Plans Won't Work
February 27, 2015
Rick Perry Is an Unemployment-Rate Denier
February 27, 2015
Rick Perry: I Care About "Real" Pollution, Not Climate Change
January 26, 2015
Rick Perry Thinks the Unemployment Rate Is "Doctored." Haven't We Heard This Before?
October 16, 2014
Republicans Want You to Be Terrified of Ebola—So You'll Vote for Them
October 6, 2014
What Rick Perry Understands About Ebola That Ted Cruz Doesn't
Experts say travel bans won't help—and might actually hurt.
August 25, 2014
Rick Perry 2016 Will Be Even More Disastrous Than Rick Perry 2012
August 20, 2014
Not So Fast: Don't Write Off the Case Against Rick Perry
August 17, 2014
The Charges Against Rick Perry Are Thin. But They Are Also Clarifying.
July 29, 2014
Rick Perry's Decision to Send the National Guard to the Border Still Makes No Sense
July 25, 2014
Obama Understands the Border Crisis Better Than Rick Perry. His Child-Migrant Plan Proves It.
July 9, 2014
QEDaily: Welcome to Texas, Mr. President
Obama doesn't need information. He needs political partners.
June 16, 2014
It's OK to Choose to Be Gay
Rick Perry said homosexuality is like alcoholism. He's wrong, but the LGBT movement could learn something from his ignorance.
April 15, 2014
The GOP's Jeb Bush Flirtation Is a Big Rebuke of the GOP
April 8, 2014
Jeb Bush Joins a Long List of Conservatives Who Got in Trouble for Saying Compassionate Things About Immigrants
March 7, 2014
Texas Republicans Keep Moving Right
Think the radicals lost on primary day? Look who they're about to elect.
November 11, 2013
The Huge Obamacare Story You Aren't Reading
October 14, 2013
Rick Perry Just Boosted His Intellectual Reputation

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