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Republican National Convention 2016
July 21, 2016
Alex Shephard
The crowd at the RNC is greedy for red meat.
July 21, 2016
Clio Chang
Laura Ingraham went after the pajama boys.
July 21, 2016
Alex Shephard
It only took 10 minutes for the first “Lock her up” chant to start at the RNC.
July 20, 2016
Rick Perlstein
Milo Yiannopoulos does impromptu stand-up on the streets of Cleveland, insists he’s not a “lazy fuck sitting around the keyboard typing horrible, hateful screeds.”
July 20, 2016
Alex Shephard
Ted Cruz is trapped between the past (two months ago), the present (the RNC), and the future (2020).
July 20, 2016
Rick Perlstein
Big Brother Is Wooing You
Orwellian echoes in Cleveland, where two plus two equals five.
July 20, 2016
Jared Yates Sexton
Who Sells These Crude, Misogynistic Trump T-Shirts? Men Like “D.C. Dave.”
July 20, 2016
Brian Beutler
Why Trump’s Convention Is the Worst Show on Earth
The GOP has been gutted. All it can do is reflect Trump’s ugly, erratic id.
July 20, 2016
Alex Shephard
The Trump campaign finally found a fall guy for Melania’s plagiarized speech—sort of.
July 20, 2016
Brian Beutler
Mitch McConnell forgot that the perpetual Supreme Court vacancy is all about high-minded principle.
July 20, 2016
Clio Chang
Day three of the RNC is all about the losers.
July 20, 2016
Jared Yates Sexton
Milo Yiannopoulos’s “Gays for Trump” party in Cleveland was as lame as you’d expect.
July 20, 2016
Alex Shephard
Another member of the Trump family has been accused of plagiarizing part of their RNC speech.
July 20, 2016
Alex Shephard
It’s kind of amazing Saul Alinsky hasn’t come up more often this election.
July 20, 2016
Brian Beutler
#NeverTrump Can’t Hide Behind Coup Fantasies Anymore
Will they actually put higher ideals before power and party?
July 20, 2016
Jeet Heer
The GOP Will Be the Party of Trump for a Long Time
He's not the outsider anymore, but the most important voice in his party.
July 20, 2016
Alex Shephard
Chris Christie wanted to give Donald Trump buyer’s remorse, so he conducted a show trial at the RNC.
July 20, 2016
Steven Cohen
Tiffany Trump is very good at writing a very bad college essay.
July 20, 2016
Alex Shephard
So far, the RNC isn’t about Donald Trump—it’s about Hillary Clinton.
July 20, 2016
Alex Shephard
The businesspeople Trump is trotting out at the RNC are further proof he isn’t the businessman he says he is.
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