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Republican Primary 2016
January 5, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
FDR is now to blame for Donald Trump.
January 5, 2016
Jeet Heer
Republican Intellectuals Still Don’t Get Donald Trump
He's winning the voters that GOP reformers yearn for—but with racism and xenophobia, not policy ideas.
January 4, 2016
Brian Beutler
Ted Cruz Won’t Be Burned Twice by the Bundys
Cruz was once eager to embrace their cause. Now he's just as eager to disavow them. What happened?
January 4, 2016
Brian Beutler
The logistics of “taking” ISIS’s oil seem pretty hard.
January 4, 2016
Brian Beutler
Donald Trump’s new ad echoes the anti-immigrant campaign that doomed the California GOP.
January 4, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Is Donald Trump too scared to say that to your face?
January 4, 2016
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump’s first campaign ad promises blood for oil.
December 31, 2015
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump is the new Reagan.
December 31, 2015
Suzy Khimm
Trump’s strongest supporters are the older, white voters that Democrats have lost.
December 31, 2015
Ryu Spaeth
Someone forgot to inform Jeb Bush that Hurricane Katrina isn’t funny.
December 31, 2015
Alexander Hurst
Donald Trump and the Politics of Disgust
The Republican presidential front-runner is disgusted by a lot of things. And it's resonating with voters.
December 28, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Donald Trump might not be featured in ISIS propaganda, but Rick Santorum is.
December 28, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Donald Trump ties with Pope Francis for second-most admired man in the world; Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama take first in their categories.
December 28, 2015
Alex Shephard
Ben Carson is good enough, strong enough, and gosh darnit he really is strong enough, stop calling him weak.
December 23, 2015
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Jeb Bush’s campaign just got a little sadder.
December 23, 2015
Ryan Kearney
Rand Paul’s #festivus tweetstorm is amusing but also a tad desperate.
December 22, 2015
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump might be a putz, but he’s not meshuggeneh.
December 22, 2015
Alex Shephard
Here are the most notable Donald Trump quotes of the past 15 hours (or so).
December 22, 2015
Dennis Jett
Donald Trump and Ben Carson Would Be Historically Inexperienced Presidents
Neither major party has ever nominated a candidate without government or military experience.
December 21, 2015
Brian Beutler
Byron York is old enough to remember that Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have remarkably different immigration records.

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