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The GOP’s spineless Trump appeasement: How a tough-talking party showed its cowardly true colors
Heather Digby Parton
In a field of candidates who "shoot from the hip," you would expect to find someone who'd stand up to Trump
“Star Wars” got us ready for Reagan: “You suddenly have permission to think in very juvenile terms about how history works”
Scott Timberg
Salon talks to historian Rick Perlstein about the period when the U.S. went from reflective to shallowly triumphant
The media needs to stop telling this lie about Donald Trump. I’m a Sanders supporter — and value honesty
Alberto A. Martinez
Trump's words on Mexicans have been misconstrued by all sides. This liberal, Puerto Rican professor says enough
Is this how World War III begins? Religion, end times, terror and the frightening new Middle East tinderbox
Émile P. Torres
Apocalyptic worldviews and non-state actors make the wars in Syria and on terror all the more dangerous
The United States is scarier than the Islamic State
Émile P. Torres
Even our closest allies fear that we are a menace militarily and environmentally. The threat is lethal and real
Sanders butts heads with Clinton in debate, condemning her hawkishness, proposing “a new foreign policy”
Ben Norton
Sanders said "Clinton is too much into regime change," criticizing her role in the disastrous wars in Iraq & Libya
Marco Rubio is pretty bad at this whole “campaigning” thing
Heather Digby Parton
In his latest scrap with Ted Cruz, Rubio has managed to draw even more attention to his biggest political weakness
The 10 most bald-faced lies from the final Republican debate of 2015
The GOP is almost entirely post-truth at this point, and if you call them out, you're part of the liberal media
GOP’s national security hysteria: We’re not in World War III, so stop trying to petrify everyone
Simon Maloy
World War III, Nazis everywhere — the Republican rhetoric on national security is distorting the policy debate
The GOP debate’s weirdest twist: That one moment where it was almost possible to like Rand Paul
Gary Legum
In an event filled with saber-rattling histrionics, it was hard not to appreciate Paul's vaguely contrarian stance
The bizarre, rage-filled spectacle of another GOP debate: Why Republican militarism has never been so incoherent
Heather Digby Parton
None of the other candidates even tried to take down Trump. Instead we got violent military one-upsmanship
Bernie just might pull this off: What the latest poll numbers really mean
Steven Rosenfeld
While the media fixates on Trump's every utterance, the Vermont senator has pulled neck and neck with Hillary
Tonight’s GOP debate will be the schtick-measuring contest from hell
Heather Digby Parton
Who can be the most hawkish? The most violent? The most antagonistic to Muslims? We're about to find out!
Sorry, but Ted Cruz isn’t going to win the Republican nomination
Bob Cesca
Pundits have been atwitter recently about polls showing Cruz gaining strength. But there are some problems
Ross Douthat should look in the mirror: He’s got medieval beliefs, but has the gall to lecture Muslims on how to modernize
Amanda Marcotte
Ross Douthat pulls a Sean Hannity, lecturing Muslims about being "illiberal" while giving Christians a pass
We’re not beating ISIS like this: America has no easy solution to its Middle Eastern crisis — and maybe none at all
Peter Van Buren
Conservatives bellow for troops on the ground. The center-left wants our allies to fight. Neither plan will succeed
He wasn’t always a xenophobe! How Trump made a fortune doing business with crooked tyrants
Robert Hennelly
Before he wanted to lock the rest of the world out, Trump was eager to do business with shady international figures
Are they serious? Donald Trump is nothing like Jimmy Carter: Here’s why the right-wing meme about the Muslim ban is complete lunacy
Sean Illing
Absurd right-wing meme charges that Jimmy Carter tried to ban Muslims just like Donald Trump. Here's the truth.
Meet the “British Bernie Sanders”: Now this is how you push back against the right
Ben Norton
New UK Labour leader outlines strong leftist platform in first US TV interview, criticizing war, xenophobia, & more
How Trump gets away with his 9/11 lies: The disturbing truth about Islamophobia in America
Daniel Denvir
The Donald has been making dubious claims about U.S. Muslims celebrating 9/11. Why do so many people buy it?
“Ideological self-confidence and ruthless power politics”: Neo-conservatives, Charles Krauthammer and the real legacy of Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy
John Bew
Ascendent neo-cons battled with Kissinger-ian "realists" for the soul of a romantic. How things have changed
Let’s get the old gang back together: The big lie America never grapples with, as we consider more war post-Paris
Paul Rosenberg
America's ready to freak out again, this time about ISIS. Here's what we need to remember
One yuuuuuge mistake: Donald Trump just delivered an anti-Semitic speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition
Scott Eric Kaufman
The GOP front-runner prattled off a series of offensive stereotypes about Jews before a room full of nothing but
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