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Kim Davis breaks from Democrats, declares herself Republican mere hours before a Family Research Council gala in her honor
Scott Eric Kaufman
To the shock of absolutely no one, the Kentucky homophobe elected to join the party of likeminded souls
This is why they have such hate: Coulter, Trump, Carson and the real history behind right-wing intolerance
Arthur Goldwag
Ann Coulter's tweet -- and the GOP race -- sheds frightening light on the deep archetypes of American conservatism
Gloria Steinem schools Carly Fiorina: Why she’s more damaging for women than Sarah Palin
Sophia Tesfaye
Donald Trump's "greatest damage to women," the feminist icon argued, "was to raise sympathy for Carly Fiorina"
Louie Gohmert opposes nomination of openly gay serviceman for Secretary of the Army because sexual abuse exists
Scott Eric Kaufman
It's not that the Texas Republican will do anything to curtail LGBTQ rights -- no, actually, he will
Ed Klein’s hysterical new Clinton fiction: The right’s least reputable “journalist” imagines a Hillary/Obama shouting match
Simon Maloy
Lying fraud Ed Klein's new book features a dramatic, overacted showdown between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
8 reasons white America falls for demagogues like Donald Trump
Chauncey DeVega
The Donald is not a riddle, a monster or a mystery. He's merely a product of our broken political culture
Joe Biden surges: New poll shows wide open Democratic race
Sophia Tesfaye
The veep is just 8 points behind Clinton -- and edges Bernie Sanders -- in latest Bloomberg poll
Watch Stephen Colbert confront Donald Trump’s birtherism head on — and win
Scott Eric Kaufman
He didn't quite shut the real estate magnate up, but Colbert came closer last night than believed humanly possible
Carly Fiorina’s post-truth politics: Even her most delusional defenders admit she’s fudging the facts
Gary Legum
Defending Fiorina's Planned Parenthood claims, Jonah Goldberg says sure, she's fibbing -- but that's not the point!
“Everything is personal”: How Donald Trump manipulates the media to expand his empire
Elias Isquith
The Donald has been famous since the '80s. That's no accident, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael D'Antonio tells Salon
Barack Obama just gave the most important racial justice speech of his presidency. Here’s why
Brittney Cooper
Over the weekend, the president gave an unprecedented speech addressing the plight of black women
Stephen Colbert dismantles Ted Cruz’s anti-gay bigotry & tax cut fanaticism
Sophia Tesfaye
"The Late Show" host quizzed Cruz on the Constitution, while the audience booed the presidential hopeful
Colbert’s Ted Cruz (calm and fair) smackdown: How “The Late Show” is triumphing with even-handed intelligence in these polarized times
Scott Timberg
Last night, Colbert and Cruz sparred over Reagan and gay marriage
Conservatives who hate the pope rush to his defense: White House’s papal guest list like “an open bar at Alcoholics Anonymous meeting”
Scott Eric Kaufman
Megyn Kelly and Mike Huckabee make it seem like the pope will personally greet all 15,000 guests on the list
The looming threat to democracy: How congressional inaction could put your vote at risk in 2016
Elias Isquith
If lawmakers don't do something soon, 2016 could be a repeat of 2000, Brennan Center for Justice expert tells Salon
5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Sarah Palin targets Ahmed Mohamed
Janet Allon
The former Alaskan governor suspects the Texas teen of terrorism, while Ben Carson endorses Trump's pseudoscience
Muslims need not apply: Ted Cruz argues that U.S. should only take in Christian refugees
Scott Eric Kaufman
The Muslim refugees should go to wealthy Arab countries, because some of them may be terrorists
“This is the year 2015!”: Bernie Sanders rips Ben Carson’s Islamophobic remarks as being un-American
Scott Eric Kaufman
"This is the year 2015," Sanders said, before listing other groups the GOP thought were "unfit" to be president
Ben Carson’s Islamophobia: “I would not ever advocate putting a Muslim in charge of this nation”
Scott Eric Kaufman
Islam "is not consistent with the Constitution" and doesn't fit "within the realm of America," he argued
The right’s dumbest birther meme: Hillary Clinton started it!
Gary Legum
With Donald Trump's response to a questioner reviving the conspiracy theory, a laughable canard rears its head
Cookie Lyon is a national treasure — but Taraji P. Henson shouldn’t win an “Empire” Emmy just yet
Shannon M. Houston
I never thought I'd see a character like Cookie on prime-time TV, but her true greatness is yet to come
The media’s big Bernie Sanders myth: Here’s how we build the coalition that shatters Clintonism, neoliberalism
Anis Shivani
Hillary-bots argue that Sanders only appeals to white Iowa & New Hampshire voters. Here's how he proves that wrong
Glenn Beck vs. Donald Trump: Why the wing-nut icon’s new war on the billionaire really matters
Matthew Pulver
When one iconic conservative provocateur calls out another, it isn't just a feud — it's a civil war
Congress is a confederacy of dunces — and its Republicans should be made to sit in the corner
Michael Winship
After all the damage the last government shutdown wrought, our elected officials are gearing up for a sequel
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