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January 13, 2016
Jeet Heer
Obama continues to argue that Trumpism is driven by economic insecurity.
January 12, 2016
Jeet Heer
Nikki Haley Will Be Responding to Trump, not Obama
The South Carolina governor is the GOP's answer to Trumpism—but it's not enough.
January 12, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
What Explains the Trump-Sanders Crossover Vote?
They speak to the same American anxieties—even though they offer radically different solutions.
January 12, 2016
Jeet Heer
David Brooks decries Ted Cruz’s “tribalist” politics but engages in some of his own.
January 12, 2016
Brian Beutler
The First Speech of Obama’s Post-Presidency
Tuesday’s State of the Union is an opportunity for him to begin writing the next chapter.
January 12, 2016
Jeet Heer
Iowa Will Not Be Donald Trump’s Waterloo
Despite the pundits' almost universal predictions, the mogul and his white identity politics can weather a few losses.
January 11, 2016
Brian Beutler
Will the GOP’s Identity Politics Doom Marco Rubio?
The Republican base is old, cantankerous, and white. Senator Rubio is not.
January 9, 2016
Jeet Heer
The Republican Party is running the first X-rated presidential primary in American history.
January 8, 2016
Brian Beutler
Republicans have weird ideas about what’s good and bad about Donald Trump.
January 8, 2016
Meaghan Murphy
Jeb Bush has reached a new level of unpopularity.
January 8, 2016
Adam Peck
Guns, guns everywhere in Donald Trump’s America.
January 7, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Ted Cruz birtherism is tearing the conservative movement apart.
January 7, 2016
Brian Beutler
John McCain’s gone full birther!
January 7, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
After Trump’s Burlington rally this evening, Sanders aides say they’ll shovel “what the cow leaves on the barn floor.”
January 7, 2016
Jeet Heer
Ted Cruz Is All Alone
Now that he has fallen out of favor with Donald Trump, the Texas senator is left to fend for himself.
January 7, 2016
Brian Beutler
Ted Cruz Is Exactly What the Political System Needs
Why Republicans and Democrats alike should welcome his nomination.
January 6, 2016
Suzy Khimm
Muslims are on track to become America’s second-largest religious group before 2040.
January 6, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Can Donald Trump win Iowa and win his beef with Samuel Jackson at the same time?
January 6, 2016
Bijan Stephen
A warlock in Mexico has predicted that Donald Trump will not be the 45th president of America.
January 6, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
Why Do We Keep Comparing Trump and Sanders?
Their politics are poles apart. But they're stirring similar emotions among alienated voters and anxious establishmentarians.

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