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Election 2016
January 28, 2016
Ryan Kearney
Bernie Sanders’s blood pressure is exactly what you’d expect it to be.
January 28, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
The Washington Post editorial board’s attack on Bernie Sanders is an embarrassment.
January 28, 2016
Laura Reston
Republicans are starting to air negative ads about Donald Trump—is it too little, too late?
January 28, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
Donald Trump repeatedly asked New York City government to get veterans off Fifth Avenue because they were aesthetically displeasing.
January 28, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Jeb Bush bet $20 that Trump will show up at the debate, which makes me think he won’t.
January 28, 2016
Jeet Heer
Trump, Fox News, and the End of “Fair and Balanced”
Trump's challenge to journalistic objectivity goes well beyond one network.
January 28, 2016
Brian Beutler
Donald Trump Has Become the GOP’s Indispensable Man
By withdrawing from the debate, he demonstrated who's in command and who is not.
January 27, 2016
Laura Reston
No wonder people have taken to calling the Republican race a “circular firing squad.”
January 27, 2016
Rebecca Leber
Bernie Sanders’s Radical Environmental Proposal
Hillary Clinton keeps adopting his positions, but not this one.
January 27, 2016
Jeet Heer
Mike Huckabee’s new ad is an Adele parody because he has nothing left.
January 27, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
It’s okay to go negative, Bernie.
January 27, 2016
David Dayen
Sanders, Clinton, and the Big Lie of the “Possible”
Pushing big ideas can lead to tangible results, in ways that cautious centrism cannot.
January 27, 2016
Brian Beutler
The Republican Establishment Needs a Miracle to Stop Trump
Prayer would be a safer bet than the strategies the party is actually employing.
January 27, 2016
Alex Shephard
Watch these Trump bros bro out about Trump.
January 27, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
The GOP primary is in chaos and that’s how Donald Trump likes it.
January 27, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Donald Trump drops out of Thursday’s GOP debate, and takes his war with Fox News to a new level.
January 26, 2016
Rebecca Leber
Donald Trump’s argument for conservation of public lands is pretty liberal.
January 26, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
While you were distracted, the Prince of Light was inching up the New Hampshire polls.
January 26, 2016
Brian Beutler
The GOP’s Conception of the Republican Primary Is Laughably Wrong
And they can't seem to shake it.
January 26, 2016
Jeet Heer
Can the GOP’s Big-Business Brand Survive Donald Trump?
While corporate America embraces diversity, Trumpism is moving the Republican Party in the opposite direction.

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