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Donald Trump
February 7, 2016
Jeet Heer
Trump asserted his dominance over Cruz early in the debate.
February 7, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
Jeb’s best moment in the whole campaign is this grimace as ABC screwed up announcing the candidates.
February 7, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
Tonight’s debate will have six bullies and one persecuted nerd: Marco Rubio.
February 7, 2016
Alex Shephard
Which Donald Trump will show up to tonight’s Republican debate?
February 6, 2016
Jeet Heer
Ted Cruz confirms that “New York values” is code for “Jewish.”
February 6, 2016
Mikaela Lefrak
Everything You Need to Know about Saturday’s GOP Debate
Donald Trump is beginning to realize he might lose, but the GOP establishment is still on the ropes.
February 6, 2016
Brian Beutler
Will Marco Rubio Finally Be Tested?
His positions are different in kind, and more extreme, than those of recent Republican nominees, but have received no scrutiny. Maybe that will change in Saturday's debate.
February 5, 2016
Laura Reston
Donald Trump no longer looks inevitable, and Republican PACs are stepping in to tank his campaign.
February 5, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
A new science video offers a theory on how Donald Trump was born.
February 5, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
Donald Trump seems to have realized he could actually lose.
February 4, 2016
Sasha Belenky
People are getting tattoos of their favorite presidential candidates.
February 4, 2016
Brian Beutler
Bernie Sanders Will Be Unelectable If He Keeps This Up
His Twitter feud with Hillary revealed a core issue that should dominate Thursday's debate.
February 3, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
Who nominated Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize?
February 3, 2016
Jeet Heer
Who’s the Ugly Loser Now?
Donald Trump can't accept defeat gracefully. That will hurt him at the polls.
February 3, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Donald Trump says Ted Cruz “illegally stole” Iowa, then claims he merely “stole” it.
February 3, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Donald Trump is learning.
February 3, 2016
Steven Cohen
Steve King Is the Happiest Man in Iowa
How the Iowa fire-breather helped drag the Republican Party into nativism.
February 2, 2016
Jeet Heer
New York Values Are at the Heart of the American Political Divide
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have challenged their parties by embodying two sides of the Big Apple.
February 2, 2016
Brian Beutler
Marco Rubio’s path to victory has an underpants gnome problem.
February 2, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Trump-mentum meets truck-mentum.

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