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Mitt Romney
June 30, 2016
Alex Shephard
What’s wrong with Mitt Romney’s children?
June 23, 2016
Brian Beutler
Donald Trump Is Too Chaotic to Attack Hillary Clinton Effectively
Trump’s anti-Clinton speech reads like a manic opposition-research dump.
June 20, 2016
Jeet Heer
Trump’s ideas about “well-educated blacks” are squarely in the Republican mainstream.
June 13, 2016
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump’s Obama-Orlando conspiracy theory is nuts, but not too nuts for the GOP.
June 3, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Is the press getting sick of Trump?
June 1, 2016
Brian Beutler
Trump University Is a Devastating Metaphor for the Trump Campaign
And if Democrats use it effectively, it will be his undoing.
June 1, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Why doesn’t Bill Kristol run for president himself?
May 3, 2016
Nathaniel Rakich
What Makes a Presidential Nominee ‘Presumptive’?
Clinton and Trump have just about sewn up their respective races. But the media isn't using the p-word.
April 13, 2016
Brian Beutler
Either Paul Ryan Means It, or He’s Lost His Mind
What all the speculation surrounding his potential nomination missed.
March 23, 2016
Alex Shephard
Regrets, Paul Ryan has a few.
March 23, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Even Mitt Romney is making crass jokes about people’s wives now.
March 18, 2016
Clio Chang
Mitt Romney thinks a vote for John Kasich is a vote for “Trumpism.”
March 15, 2016
Brian Beutler
OK! We relent! White people can be losers, too.
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
Elizabeth Bruenig
Can Donald Trump Beat the Con-Man Rap?
As Thursday night's debate showed, it all depends.
March 3, 2016
Adam Peck
Mitt Romney suddenly has a problem with Trump’s extreme rhetoric.
March 3, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
Mitt Romney and Donald Trump both need to lay off the sexual innuendo.
March 3, 2016
Alex Shephard
What does Mitt Romney think he’s doing?
March 3, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Is Mitt Romney about to become the next Jeb Bush?
March 1, 2016
Brian Beutler
Surely the GOP’s newly avowed antiracism will extend to fixing the VRA, not just to attacking Trump, yes?

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