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Election 2016
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
Brian Beutler
Prediction!
Prediction!
February 7, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
Tonight’s debate will have six bullies and one persecuted nerd: Marco Rubio.
February 6, 2016
Jamil Smith
Why Bernie Sanders Needs to Talk About Voting Rights
As the first primary approaches, the Vermont senator has a chance to own an issue that is essential to his "revolution."
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
Jeet Heer
We Need Agatha Christie in New Hampshire, Not Chris Christie
The animosity among the remaining Republican candidates would make a perfect murder mystery.
February 5, 2016
Michael Tracey
Should Hillary Clinton Be Basking in Henry Kissinger’s Praise?
Her team thinks so. Bernie Sanders's campaign has a different take.
February 5, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Barbara Bush’s family values, then and now.
February 5, 2016
Adam Peck
Bernie Sanders supporters are getting guys’ hopes up on Tinder.
February 5, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
A new science video offers a theory on how Donald Trump was born.
February 5, 2016
Laura Reston
Jeb! is bringing out the big gun: His brother.
February 5, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
Donald Trump seems to have realized he could actually lose.
February 5, 2016
Mikaela Lefrak
Why is America’s most popular governor endorsing Chris Christie?
February 5, 2016
Laura Reston
Ad Wars 2016: Can John Kasich Score by Going Positive?
While the other Republicans assail each other in New Hampshire, the Ohio governor tries a radical experiment. Plus: This week’s ad round-up.
February 5, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Barbara Bush thinks Jeb is “relatively funny.”
February 5, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
That’s it for the fifth Democratic debate. Here’s what you missed.
February 5, 2016
Jeet Heer
Bill Clinton’s Legacy Haunts the Democratic Debate
In Thursday's debate, the Sanders-Clinton squabble over the progressive future was rooted in a dispute about the past.
February 5, 2016
Steven Cohen
Bernie Sanders can do better on foreign policy than bringing up Hillary Clinton’s Iraq War vote.

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