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Secrets, lies and the iPhone: A CIA whistleblower talks about Obama’s bizarre secrecy obsession — and why Hillary and Bernie won’t talk about it
Andrew O'Hehir
This isn't about Apple vs. the FBI — it's about a "progressive" president with a dismal record on civil liberties
“America is not Texas”: This is why Ted Cruz’s cynical Southern evangelical strategy is doomed to fail
Lou Dubose
Cruz has been waiting for primaries to turn south. Trump's nabbing his votes, but the joke may be on us
What Mitt Romney’s impotent attack on Trump really proves: The GOP is totally screwed
Gary Legum
Donald Trump seems nigh unstoppable, and Republicans are in a panic. So they've enlisted the help of...Mitt Romney?
GOP falls into Obama’s trap: Vetting a Republican for the Supreme Court was crafty — and confirmed the right cares about power above country
Amanda Marcotte
Obama's trial balloon proved that the GOP will not bend on their obstruction strategy
Hispanics are still anti-GOP: Poll shows how little progress Republicans have made with Latino voters
Simon Maloy
Trump's a disaster with Latino voters, and neither Ted Cruz nor Marco Rubio do better than past GOP nominees
Ted Cruz is the GOP’s loneliest a-hole: His campaign is sinking because literally nobody likes him
Gary Legum
Once seen as the strongest challenger to Donald Trump, Cruz now finds himself fighting for second for one reason
This is what political insanity looks like: The idea of a Clinton-Kasich “dream ticket” is rooted in fantasy and confusion over what the candidates stand for
Amanda Marcotte
Talk about Clinton picking Kasich as VP assumes she's less liberal and he's less conservative than they really are
Democrats are afraid to speak the truth about Hillary: She’s the embodiment of white privilege, while Sanders has earned his success
H.A. Goodman
The strongest example of white privilege is placing more emphasis on war than the plight of struggling Americans
Bernie Sanders has led Hillary Clinton in this major national poll nearly all month
Sophia Tesfaye
Since Iowa, Sanders has overtaken Clinton for the majority of the month in the Reuters daily tracking poll
“It’s all sanctimonious bullsh*t”: Trevor Noah unloads on GOP’s Supreme Court obstructionism
Brendan Gauthier
"The Daily Show" gets it, until Trevor Noah strikes an embarrassing, dumb note of false equivalence
The price of obstruction: Republicans gamble that blocking Obama’s SCOTUS nominee won’t hurt them too badly
Simon Maloy
Republicans understand the benefits of Supreme Court obstruction and hope that they outweigh the political cost
Obama must fulfill his Gitmo pledge: Eight years is far too long to make campaign promise of closing prison a reality
Ben Norton
Obama has executive authority to close Gitmo. If he's serious about closing it, he'll stop making excuses
“It’s the corruption, stupid”: Hillary’s too compromised to see what Donald Trump understands
Bill Curry
The key 2016 issue is outrage over a rigged system by special interests. There's a reason Hillary doesn't get it
25 “facts” that really aren’t: You’ve heard them all your life and they just aren’t true
Larry Schwartz
Carrots improve your vision, bats are blind & there's a 5-second rule when food falls on the floor, right? Well, no
Hillary’s about to get away with a stiff-arm: She needs to fundamentally rethink her policies — and we need to demand it
Paul Rosenberg
This was the year to demand more than someone marginally better than the GOP, and to push to build on Obama years
GOP’s Constitution hypocrisy: Supreme Court drama proves top Republicans are only loyal to the “law of the land” when it’s convenient
Cody Cain
The GOP claims faithful observance to the Constitution, but was quick to toss it out the window when Scalia died
Trump insists tweet that Obama would’ve attended Scalia’s funeral “if it were held in a Mosque” was just a joke
Scott Eric Kaufman
"It was a joke," he said, "I did that in fun"
Watch a 106-year-old woman meet Barack and Michelle Obama — you can thank me for it later
Scott Eric Kaufman
Politics is often joyless — but when it isn't, it really, really isn't
Why Bernie Sanders won the Democratic primary — even if he loses
Bob Cesca
While Hillary Clinton has the inside track to the nomination, Sanders has nonetheless made his mark on history
Good riddance, Bush Dynasty! Why Jeb’s disastrous campaign is a fitting end to a poisonous history
Gary Legum
Jeb Bush left the 2016 campaign not with a bang, but a whimper, hopefully ending for good a sad chapter for America
The right’s SCOTUS unreality: Republicans are justifying obstructionism by just making stuff up
Simon Maloy
Conservatives invent new facts and "traditions" to support the unprecedented blocking of a Supreme Court nominee
Democrats who backed Iraq now dare slime Sanders’ foreign policy experience?
Paul Rosenberg
The hawkish Hillary team paints Sanders as a foreign policy naif. His views may be smarter and tougher than hers
America’s shameful state of decay: Sanders is campaigning on rebuilding the country’s infrastructure — will it work?
James Luchte
Sanders is promising an FDR-style public works program to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. Here's how
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