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Republican Primary 2016
December 21, 2015
Suzy Khimm
Lindsey Graham, one of the only presidential candidates who seemed to enjoy campaigning, is dropping out of the 2016 race.
December 18, 2015
Jeet Heer
Who Will Stop Republican Islamophobia?
Democrats should make a convincing case against it, but change must come from within the GOP
December 18, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Do 30 percent of Republican primary voters support bombing an imaginary Disney country?
December 18, 2015
Brian Beutler
Democrats Should Squash the Ginned-Up Right-Wing Panic
Saturday's debate is a chance for Clinton, Sanders, and O'Malley to deflate the Republicans' politics of paranoia.
December 18, 2015
Steven Cohen
We kill people, Russia kills people, and that’s just “the way it is”: Donald Trump explains why it’s really all just relative.
December 17, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Tough guy Chris Christie didn’t follow through on his anti-refugee rhetoric.
December 17, 2015
Brian Beutler
The Rubio-Cruz Clash Has Donald Trump Laughing All the Way to the Bank
December 17, 2015
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Minnesota nice no longer applies to Donald Trump.
December 17, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
Trump’s favorite insult is to call someone man’s best friend.
December 16, 2015
Brian Beutler
There’s Nothing Radical About Republicans’ Foreign Policy
Only xenophobia and blustering rhetoric set their ideas apart from Hillary Clinton's.
December 16, 2015
Ryu Spaeth
Curious who won the Republican debate? Let’s ask Politico’s “GOP Insiders.”
December 16, 2015
Jamil Smith
How Rand Paul Proved His Usefulness
While the other Republicans spent debate night measuring their manhood, the senator from Kentucky provided the lone voice of reason.
December 16, 2015
Ryu Spaeth
Read Donald Trump’s stirring soliloquy on the senselessness of war.
December 16, 2015
Ryu Spaeth
Who won the GOP debate?
December 16, 2015
Suzy Khimm
Jeb Bush’s Empty Triumph Over Donald Trump
He landed a lot of punches, but also exposed the Republican Party's lack of a credible alternative to the front-runner's bellicosity.
December 16, 2015
Ryu Spaeth
Donald Trump’s Jedi mind trick is his pledge to the Republican Party.
December 16, 2015
MagazineJeet Heer
The GOP is the Party of Fear
How did fear come to loom so large in Republican rhetoric?
December 16, 2015
Rebecca Leber
If you blinked, you would have missed the only time the Paris climate talks came up in the GOP debate.
December 16, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Fear of terrorism, kind of like climate change and Obamacare, is turning into another polarized issue.
December 16, 2015
Laura Reston
Ted Cruz is wilting under fierce attacks from Marco Rubio.

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