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Stop validating nuts like Alex Jones: Mainstream conservatives give credence to conspiracy theories about Obama and guns
Amanda Marcotte
Obama isn't coming for your guns, but mainstream pundits like to wink at the conspiracy theory
NRA: The president cried in order “to create the illusion that he’s doing something to keep people safe”
Scott Eric Kaufman
Chris Cox has no interest in meeting with Obama, because "what are we going to talk about? Basketball?"
Obama’s tears, America’s tragedy: Behind Fox News mockery lies uncomfortable truth about our failed politics
Andrew O'Hehir
American masculinity is built on maudlin sentiment -- but Obama's tears reflect a deep grief with no clear remedy
Now you can worry: Trump’s in it to win it, so it’s time to drop fantasy that his campaign is all for show
Elias Isquith
With two bold new moves, Trump's campaign shows once and for all that it is no joke. The Donald wants to win.
GOP primary built on bias: Cruz, Trump apparently competing in “most-racist candidate” contest
Amanda Marcotte
Trump and Cruz are pandering to the base by getting more blatant with the racism, a sign for what's to come in 2016
Obama breaks twenty-year lull on gun regulation: A look back at gun control history
Peter Cooper
President Obama announces executive actions on gun control & we look back at U.S. gun control through the ages
How White America’s fear of Barack Obama has made us all worse off
Matthew Pulver
A shockingly large segment of the population only hates a policy once our president's name is on it
Noam Chomsky: The problem with US politics is the spectrum is “center to extreme — way off the spectrum — right”
Scott Eric Kaufman
There's no such thing as American exceptionalism, he argued, it's just normal imperial practice
We have a race on our hands: Bernie breaks fundraising records ahead of the primaries
Steven Rosenfeld
Hillary should be looking over her shoulder. Sanders has received more individual donations than Obama in 2012
12 things you need to know about Trump’s bullet-bedecked spokeswoman Katrina Pierson
Janet Allon
Before her zany CNN interviews, before she began stumping for the Donald, the Tea Party nut voted for Obama in 2008
They created our Bundy/Trump hellscape: Fox News’ angry white audience will destroy us yet
Sophia A. McClennen
47 percent of Fox viewers get all their news there. They are horribly misinformed. And we wonder why Trump leads?
More proof that Donald Trump is poison to the GOP: His first-ever campaign ad
Gary Legum
Trump's first foray into TV spots follows a long and not very successful GOP tradition
How America’s anti-immigrant hysteria just hit an unprecedented new low
David Dayen
By way of a harsh (and previously rare) new deportation tactic, the government is putting people in real danger
Donald Trump has made us all a**holes: How 2016 has coarsened us all into Fox News jerks
Sophia A. McClennen
Trump is polarizing, yes, but the real problem is that he's making us all obnoxious. Don't let the terrorist win
Marilynne Robinson talks religion, fear and the American spirit: “The left, at a basic level, lost courage, because they don’t know how to deal with the proclaimed religiosity of the other side”
Michael Schulson
Exclusive: The brilliant American writer and thinker on God, capitalism and our fearful democracy
Donald Trump cites Israel’s illegal separation wall to justify banning Muslims
Ben Norton
Israel's barrier in the occupied West Bank defies international law, and is called an "apartheid wall" by critics
We weren’t ready for a black president: Race, hate, Donald Trump, guns, Fox News, terror and our tragic American condition
Tom Gogola
Right-wing pseudo-statesmen haven't changed, grown up or dropped the race-baiting, even as Obama has delivered
He’s getting desperate: Trump’s campaign used to be confident, but Cruz has gotten him feeling downright thirsty
Amanda Marcotte
Trump used to campaign on his self-confidence and arrogance, but lately his run has the stink of desperation
Jerry Seinfeld gets Obama to confess that “a pretty sizable percentage” of world leaders are “just completely out of their minds”
Scott Eric Kaufman
The pair also discussed the "toxic" effect of privilege and wealth on people -- and how to avoid it
Warren Buffett is a phony: Every liberal’s favorite billionaire is actually cut-throat, not cuddly
David Dayen
Buffett's brand is progressive, and Democrats love to bask in his endorsements. The reality is very different
America is complicit in a new Middle Eastern tragedy: Saudi Arabia is obliterating Yemen — with our help
Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Riyadh has ramped up its aerial assaults in recent months, and the U.S. government is supplying its weaponry
“I’ve had my fill of f**king intellectuals”: Why the non-intellectual candidate fills this Trump supporter with hope
Dan Sinykin
In Iowa, Cruz draws the zealots; Rubio, the disillusioned Trump-haters; and Trump, well, people love a celebrity
5 ways Bernie Sanders is gaining ground as the primaries begin
Steven Rosenfeld
Bernie has bested Obama's Iowa benchmarks, and Hillary is beginning to realize she could well lose the nomination
The right-wing beard revolution: Look out, hipsters, here come the counterculture Christians
Christopher Oldstone-Moore
The newly sprouted beards of American evangelicals are a social rather than a religious statement
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