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Republican Primary 2016
March 4, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Imagine if Marco Rubio had said he wouldn’t support Donald Trump in a general election.
March 4, 2016
Laura Reston
Hitting Donald Trump Where It Just Might Hurt
Outside groups tried attacking the GOP frontrunner as insufficiently conservative. Now they're going for the gut. Plus: this week's Ad Wars round-up.
March 4, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
Can Donald Trump Beat the Con-Man Rap?
As Thursday night's debate showed, it all depends.
March 4, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Highlights from the 11th Republican presidential debate.
March 4, 2016
Alex Shephard
The 11th GOP debate in two awkward fist bumps.
March 4, 2016
Adam Peck
The Republican field just pledged to support Trump if he’s the nominee.
March 4, 2016
Steven Cohen
Ted Cruz’s alternative history of Detroit.
March 4, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Ted Cruz decided to take a “calmer than you are” approach to Donald Trump.
March 4, 2016
Jeet Heer
Marco Rubio made a funny.
March 4, 2016
Alex Shephard
John Kasich thinks we need to learn to love our country’s homophobes.
March 4, 2016
Steven Cohen
The “release the tape” attacks on Donald Trump reveal the depths of the GOP’s pathology.
March 4, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Donald Trump all but admits he ran for president to spite Buzzfeed.
March 4, 2016
Alex Shephard
Did Ted Cruz just eat something off of his face?
March 4, 2016
Steven Cohen
John Kasich acknowledges the elephant on the GOP debate stage: The only hope to stop Donald Trump is a brokered convention.
March 4, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump thrives in chaos and this Republican debate is chaos.
March 4, 2016
Jeet Heer
The GOP debate is a great lesson on the dangers of toxic masculinity.
March 4, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump just literally made the Republican race about his penis.
March 3, 2016
Adam Peck
Mitt Romney suddenly has a problem with Trump’s extreme rhetoric.
March 3, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
Mitt Romney and Donald Trump both need to lay off the sexual innuendo.
March 3, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Chris Christie is denying that Trump is holding him hostage, which is exactly what a hostage would say.

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