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Ted Cruz
April 6, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Reminder to conservatives: Ted Cruz would be a terrible general election candidate!
April 6, 2016
Jeet Heer
When You’re a Trumpkin, You’re a Trumpkin All the Way
Ted Cruz won big in Wisconsin, but the staying power of Trump's base is the real story of the night.
April 6, 2016
Meaghan Murphy
Ted Cruz is so confident he’s “uniting” the GOP that he quoted JFK.
April 6, 2016
Laura Reston
The Republican establishment can breathe easy: We’re headed toward a brokered convention.
April 6, 2016
Jeet Heer
Wisconsin is do-or-die for Ted Cruz.
April 5, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Ted Cruz’s favorite cheese is “all of them.”
April 5, 2016
Jeet Heer
The Default Messiah
Ted Cruz has become some establishment Republicans' last, strange hope. But can he knit together a coalition of purists and pragmatists?
April 1, 2016
Laura Reston
Ted Cruz Is a Damn Good Actor
As Wisconsin TV viewers are discovering this week, nobody’s better at the “talking directly to you” ad than the Texas senator and former thespian.
March 31, 2016
Alex Shephard
This phallic anti-Ted Cruz ad is the stuff of nightmares.
March 31, 2016
PodcastPrimary Concerns
Primary Concerns Episode 8: R@tfucking, How Does It Work?
March 30, 2016
Alex Shephard
The GOP loyalty pledge is dead.
March 25, 2016
Alex Shephard
Trump: I hope the National Enquirer, which often gets things right, is wrong about Ted Cruz, who is a liar.
March 25, 2016
Jeet Heer
Ted Cruz is such a gentleman that he calls his enemies rodent-copulators.
March 25, 2016
Alex Shephard
Did Donald Trump plant a Ted Cruz adultery allegation in The National Enquirer?
March 25, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Why no one likes Ted Cruz, in one 30-second clip.
March 24, 2016
Alex Shephard
Why does Donald Trump keep going after Heidi Cruz?
March 24, 2016
PodcastPrimary Concerns
Primary Concerns Episode 7: The Democracy of Blame
What will the Trump candidacy mean for the Black Lives Matter movement? And if he is indeed the nominee, who's to blame?
March 23, 2016
Adam Peck
Turning the GOP primary into a two-man race maybe isn’t such a good idea.
March 23, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
6 quotes from The American President we’d like to hear Ted Cruz say.
March 23, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Even Mitt Romney is making crass jokes about people’s wives now.

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