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Resistance is futile: “We want Trump!” the RNC crowd yells, as the last whimpers of rebellion are snuffed out
Amanda Marcotte
Huge numbers of Republicans didn't vote Trump, but you wouldn't know it watching the delegates cheer for him
Plagiarism at its worst: What we can learn from Melania Trump’s copycat RNC speech
Sherry Linkon, John Russo
The strikingly similar rhetoric of two very different presidential candidates' wives tells us a lot about Americans
Rudy’s recycled fear and Melania’s plagiarized pablum: The GOP unleashes the goblins
Andrew O'Hehir
On a night of epic ugliness and shocking laziness, Trump’s Republican Party reveals its new face. Be very afraid
The ghouls have won: The first night of Donald Trump’s RNC was a political death cult
Chauncey DeVega
Last night was a clinic in the enduring hold that authoritarianism, racism, and fear has over GOP voters
Trump campaign denies Michelle Obama’s speech was plagarized for RNC before throwing Melania under the bus
Sophia Tesfaye
The best excuse Team Trump could come up with: "Some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking"
Fear and loathing of Clinton: Forget Melania — Hillary-hating took center stage at RNC’s opening night
Heather Digby Parton
Melania Trump's much-anticipated speech was drowned out by hours of unhinged Hillary bashing at the RNC
The RNC’s pop-culture wasteland: This Republican convention is seriously lacking in star power
Scott Timberg
Heavy hitters in Cleveland are Kid Rock and Scott Baio, who pale next to former RNC stars like Clint Eastwood
All hate is not created equal: The folly of perceiving murderers like Dylann Roof, Micah Johnson and Gavin Long as one and the same
Chauncey DeVega
Applying the blanket label of "evil" to mass shooters with vastly different motives obscures more than it reveals
Cop-killer Gavin Long and the danger of the “Sovereign Citizens” movement
Chauncey DeVega
Long was reportedly affiliated with growing anti-government organizations considered as domestic terror threats
The best “worst president”: What the right gets wrong about Barack Obama
Mark Hannah
There might not be a liberal and a conservative America, but there are liberal and conservative ideas of Obama
“He’s a solid, solid person”: Donald Trump officially introduces Mike Pence as his running mate
The Associated Press
"What a difference between crooked Hillary Clinton and Mike Pence," Trump said
Horror in France: At least 80 killed after truck loaded with weapons plows through crowd
The Associated Press
Truck barrels through revelers gathered in Nice, France during Bastille Day celebration
Norman Lear sits down with Salon: “Trump is the middle finger of the American right hand”
Andrew O'Hehir
Archie Bunker wouldn't vote for Trump, insists his 93-year-old creator, now the subject of an irresistible film
How a Trump-Pence presidency would be dangerous for the press
Ben Norton
Donald Trump despises the media. Potential VP Mike Pence has long defended press freedom, but his record has stains
Fox News’ Brit Hume goes after Obama: Claims president “never says anything about” black-on-black violence
Brendan Gauthier
The "America's Newsroom" host this week workshopped various ways of calling Obama a reverse-racist
A guide to the Philadelphia DNC that media won’t show you, from extreme poverty to police misconduct
Bob Hennelly
The extreme poor's fight to be heard and the lost history of a police bombing that destroyed a Philly neighborhood
Sure, celebrate Sanders, but let’s also honor Clinton for her historic accomplishment
Amanda Marcotte
Sanders deserves praise for his campaign and movement, but so does Clinton for doing what no woman has done before
Obama pays tribute to officers shot in racial attack: “Dallas, I’m here to say we must reject such despair”
Darlene Superville
"I'm here to insist that we are not as divided as we seem, and I know that because I know America"
The West escalates with Russia: Make no mistake, a second Cold War is now official NATO policy
Patrick Lawrence
NATO's aggressive posture towards Russia sets a dangerous course for Obama's successor
“I am proud to stand with her today”: Bernie Sanders makes it official, finally endorses Hillary Clinton
Sophia Tesfaye
"I intend to do everything I can to make certain she will be the next president of the United States"
#Javilton mania strikes Broadway as Javier Muñoz replaces Lin-Manuel Miranda as lead in “Hamilton”
Scott Eric Kaufman
The excitement around Miranda's former understudy taking on the role rivals that around the show itself
The blowback from Hillary bashing: Right-wing attacks thwart reasonable criticism of Clinton’s campaign
Sophia A. McClennen
The attacks on Clinton are so excessive, so misogynistic, so mean-spirited, it's impossible to criticize her at all
5 worst right-wing moments of the week: Bill O’Reilly instructs black people to hate Black Lives Matter
Janet Allon
Joe Walsh made a despicable threat toward Obama, while Bill O'Reilly railed against BLM
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