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Election 2016
March 4, 2016
Laura Reston
John Kasich is sure he’s going to a brokered convention.
March 4, 2016
Adam Peck
Donald Trump snubs CPAC.
March 4, 2016
Jeet Heer
The Presidential Penis: A Short History
An obsession with the president's phallus is a feature of American history long pre-dating Donald Trump.
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
David Dayen
Chuck Grassley in the Crosshairs
With a strong Democratic challenger to his Senate seat—and President Obama vetting an Iowa judge for Antonin Scalia’s Supreme Court seat—the Iowa senator is starting to crack.
March 4, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Highlights from the 11th Republican presidential debate.
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
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
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
Jeet Heer
The GOP debate is a great lesson on the dangers of toxic masculinity.
March 3, 2016
Adam Peck
Mitt Romney suddenly has a problem with Trump’s extreme rhetoric.
March 3, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Chris Christie is denying that Trump is holding him hostage, which is exactly what a hostage would say.
March 3, 2016
Adam Peck
Donald Trump settles on another answer for why he refused to disavow the KKK: He thought Jake Tapper could have been talking about Jewish philanthropy.
March 3, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Donald Trump’s most interesting opponent at tonight’s debate will be Megyn Kelly.
March 3, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Is Mitt Romney about to become the next Jeb Bush?

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