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Selling Out the Constitution and Main Street on Trade
This “free trade” legislation will allow companies to export jobs and import cheap goods at the expense of the American worker.
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Few Conservatives Take Police Abuses Seriously
There is overwhelming evidence of widespread civil-rights violations and unlawful brutality. Yet the movement's reflex is still to ignore or deny the problem. By Conor Friedersdorf
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Anthony Kennedy’s Same-Sex Marriage Opinion Was a Logical Disaster
It was the correct ruling, but John Roberts's dissent completely outmatched him.
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Scott Walker Joins Race as Fighter for the Right
In joining the 2016 presidential campaign, he promises to bring to the U.S. the brand of tough-minded conservative politics that drove his rise in Wisconsin.
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“They Don’t Give a Damn about Governing” Conservative Media’s Influence on the Republican Party
A new paper by Jackie Calmes, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Spring 2015) and national correspondent for The New York Times, examines the increasing influence of conservative media on the Republican Party’s agenda.
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Saving Speaker Ryan
When the clock strikes midnight tonight, it may well toll the end of the best day in the speakership of Paul Ryan... By John Lawrence.
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Private memo lays out how the GOP would deal with Trump as its nominee
Official working on Senate campaigns advises tapping Trump’s tactics, tone and look — but not getting too close. By Robert Costa and Philip Rucker.
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The War Inside the Republican Party
How a group of radical conservatives ousted John Boehner—and pushed Congress to the right. By Ryan Lizza.
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The Great Republican Revolt
Will the GOP as we know it survive 2016? By David Frum.
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How Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio Are Battling for the Future of GOP Foreign Policy
While he has very little support among party elites, Cruz seems to believe that Republican voters are hungry for a candidate who will challenge their party’s foreign policy at the ideological level. By Jonathan Chait.
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What Went Wrong With Rand Paul?
A year ago, Trump was a joke and Paul was rising. But now that their fortunes have flipped, is it fair to say libertarianism is finally dead? By Nick Gillespie.
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One year, two races: Inside the Republican Party’s bizarre, tumultuous 2015
In their own voices, a tale of a bizarre beginning to the Republican presidential race. By Dan Balz, Philip Rucker, Robert Costa and Matea Gold. (Jan. 3)
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Here’s what Machiavelli would have to say about the Republican primaries
On inherited power, wealthy patrons, religion and politics, populism, and more. By Alissa Ardito.
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Trump’s angry white men – and why there are more of them than you think
Statistics point to conspiracy theories, mediocre wages and a deeply held belief that this group is anything but racist. By Mona Chalabi.
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Rand Paul: My Dad’s Supporters in Iowa Won’t Go for Ted Cruz
Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul dismisses Ted Cruz's effort to win over his father Ron Paul's 2012 supporters, saying that group of libertarian-minded voters aren't "very excited about making the sand glow in the Middle East." By Reid J. Epstein.
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Why Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Want Your Vote
On the road with a man so angry he scares Democrats, too. By Jonno Rattman.
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Here are the 9 best moments from Thursday’s GOP debate
Birthers, internet commenters, and the "mantle of anger" take their places on stage. By Pema Levy and Patrick Caldwell.
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“Neoliberalism” is it?
What are we talking about exactly, and why is this causing so much discussion? By Jeremy Fox.
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Declassified Documents: U.S. Military Bombed the Nazi Germany Oil Refinery That Fred Koch Helped Build
Among the revelations in Dark Money, Jane Mayer’s expansive new book on the Koch brothers and the rise of contemporary American conservatism, is that Fred Koch, the billionaire duo’s father, once helped build an oil refinery in Nazi Germany. The New York Times broke that item last week, but left out a key detail from the book: allied forces bombed the refinery during World War II.
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Sarah Palin’s son was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend and possessing a gun while intoxicated
Track Palin was arrested hours before his mother formally endorsed Donald Trump for president.
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