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Trump’s Breitbart lackeys: The right-wing outlet isn’t just incompetent — it may also be corrupt
Simon Maloy
Is Breitbart.com accepting payments from Donald Trump for fawning coverage? That would make a ton of sense
Paul Krugman: GOP candidates can’t attack Obama because of party’s disastrous record of predicting his failures
Scott Eric Kaufman
The president's "failure to fail" has left the field scrambling to find an angle the party hasn't already ruined
Donald Trump’s incoherent, megalomaniacal religion: Why his courting of evangelicals reveals the depths of his ignorance
Jeffrey Tayler
As Trump's campaign for the Republican nomination lumbers on, it behooves us to consider his (feigned) faith
The secret history of “cuckservative”: The fetish that became a right-wing rallying cry
Chauncey DeVega
What began as a white supremacist slur, inspired by a genre of porn, has infiltrated the conservative mainstream
It’s still Richard Nixon’s party: How Watergate shaped the modern conservative movement
Heather Cox Richardson
Unfazed by Tricky Dick's resignation, the right doubled down on his politics of grievance and division
Jeb Bush goes full Donald Trump on Obamacare: He’s just as nonsensical as the GOP’s carnival barker
Simon Maloy
Bush is going to supercharge the economy by repealing Obamacare and replacing it with "something"
The big loser in last night’s GOP debates: Our warming planet
Nassir Isaf
Fittingly for a party that doesn't believe it's happening, climate change was virtually ignored last night
GOP undercard debate: Carly Fiorina and Bobby Jindal declared to have won the battle nobody bothered to witness
Scott Eric Kaufman
They may have made great points, but no one was there to witness them doing so
Fox News is half-right about Jon Stewart: How the brilliant satirist of the Bush years has been undone by his BFF in the White House
Andrew O'Hehir
Jon Stewart's late-night fake news sparked a media revolution. But even he couldn't solve the Obama paradox
Bernie Sanders is no Barack Obama: Even if he wins Iowa & New Hampshire, he’s unlikely to dethrone Clinton
Luke Brinker
The Sanders surge is all the rage following another neck-and-neck poll. Let's keep things in perspective here
How Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley spawned Jon Stewart, Bill O’Reilly and all the horrors of TV news
Andrew O'Hehir
A weird 1968 ratings gambit -- two upper-crust intellectuals united in loathing -- led to Fox News and Jon Stewart
The GOP and Fox News have a secret plan to prevent ridiculous candidates from turning debate into a laughingstock
Scott Eric Kaufman
Now that Trump's declared he would "hurt anybody" who attacked him, RNC Chair Reince Priebus is getting nervous
The hideous truth about Donald Trump: Why the “Trump Surge” is here to stay — even if his campaign isn’t
Brittney Cooper
The forces animating the Donald's soaring popularity are omnipresent: The deep-seated anxieties of white America
Elizabeth Warren is the badass America needs: Why her amazing Planned Parenthood speech proves how important she is
Heather Digby Parton
Long after she took herself out of the running for president, Warren keeps making a bigger difference than anyone
“A really disturbing turning point”: Why Bush v. Gore began a devastating new era for American civil rights
Paul Rosenberg
Author Ari Berman tells Salon how and when the GOP began turning the tide on voting rights
The simple question GOP’s Iran naysayers still can’t answer: What’s the alternative?
Simon Maloy
Just like with Obamacare, Republicans hate the Iran deal, but can't seem to agree on what they'd do instead
America’s inequality crisis is about so much more than money: The ugly realities that elude our politicians
David Cay Johnston
The growing chasm between the rich and the poor is a crisis of our own making -- and a threat to our very liberty
Hillary Clinton is becoming the oligarchy’s Public Enemy #1
Heather Digby Parton
It isn't just rich conservatives looking to take Hillary down a peg. Rich Dems are getting in on the action now too
“Daily Show” classics: Jon Stewart celebrated Obama’s 2008 victory the only way he knew how — by mocking CNN
Colin Gorenstein
In 2008, Stewart did a post-election segment recapping some of the weirdest moments in "jazzed-up" news
Jon Stewart changed everything: How “The Daily Show” revolutionized TV & revitalized the Democratic Party
Bill Curry
As Stewart prepares to hang up his proverbial boxing gloves, we would do well to recognize how important he's been
Here’s how we beat the billionaires: The simple campaign reform Sheldon Adelson & the Koch brothers fear
Walter Shapiro
Super PACs have given plutocratic ideologues unprecedented power -- but there's a remarkably easy way to curb them
“We only get one planet”: Obama launches Clean Power Plan on a global note
"This is the single most important step America has ever taken in the fight against climate change."
Donald Trump aide fired over over-the-top racist Facebook posts
Scott Eric Kaufman
"I don't recall writing them," Sam Nunberg said, but insisted he didn't work for Trump at the time that he did
Bayghazi won’t sink Hillary: Michael Bay’s new Benghazi movie has conservatives exploding with excitement
Simon Maloy
Conservatives have faith that Hillary Clinton's presidential hopes will be sunk by the director of "Bad Boys II"
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