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Paul Ryan caves to the wingnuts: He’s already looking like a hostage of the insanity caucus
Gary Legum
The boy wonk was supposed to tame the hardliners. Instead, they're already setting the terms for his speakership
Let’s call them all lunatics: Fearful “balanced” “journalists” let wingnuts run wild
Paul Rosenberg
The Freedom Caucus has co-conspirator: A compliant media that prints what it's told, no matter how wrong or insane
Ted Cruz’s dangerous game: Is he a power-mad “GoT” Littlefinger, or completely clueless to the damage he’ll cause?
Amanda Marcotte
Ted Cruz seems focused on creating chaos that leads to shutdown. What's scarier, that he has a plan or no clue?
Mitch McConnell’s debt limit bluff: The Senate leader knows he has no leverage, but he has to pretend
Simon Maloy
Mitch McConnell is making fake plans to force cuts to Social Security in exchange for a debt ceiling increase
The real reason the Republican Party is imploding: It’s still all about race
Elias Isquith
What's causing the GOP's slide into complete dysfunction? It's not overheated rhetoric; it's the politics of race
Paul Krugman bursts David Brooks’ fantasyland version of conservatism: “Actually existing conservatism is a radical doctrine”
Sophia Tesfaye
Krugman with a reality check: The Republican Party David Brooks imagines died with Ronald Reagan
Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street problem: She’s still going too easy on the banksters
Wallace Turbeville
The Democratic frontrunner's proposed reforms mark progress -- but could be far tougher
The GOP is ungovernable: What happens when one major party is dysfunctional to the core
Simon Maloy
Republicans have spectacularly failed their "prove we can govern" test, and that's trouble for pretty much everyone
Reminder: Paul Ryan is a wild-eyed, right-wing nut. He’s acceptable to the insane caucus because he is one of them
Amanda Marcotte
Paul Ryan is a popular pick for speaker, but mostly because he wants to turn the U.S. into the Hunger Games
The GOP Congress is a raging dumpster fire with no end in sight
Elias Isquith
With a government shutdown and a debt-ceiling breach potentially on the horizon, here's where the GOP takes us next
GOP’s “anti-corruption” snake oil: The crew that poisoned DC now wants to clean it up
Conor Lynch
GOPers rail against big donors and special interests -- but are too addicted to the K Street trough to do anything
Climate apocalypse is here, now: Science fiction has become our new reality
Michael T. Klare
Climatologists dismissed the science behind "The Day After Tomorrow." Eleven years later, it's not so improbable
The NRA’s favorite myth, demolished: Australia debunks the right-wing narrative that smarter gun policy can’t make a difference
Sophia Tesfaye
Australia got rid of rifles and shotguns and saw their suicide and homicide rates plunge
Rand Paul shreds Ted Cruz over his showboating antics: “He is pretty much done for”
Sophia Tesfaye
Not finding much success hitting The Donald, Paul sets his sights on his colleague from Texas
The GOP is just this mad: Wingnuts who drove John Boehner from office are about to make Kevin McCarthy’s life hell
Gary Legum
The post-Boehner landscape looks a lot like the last 5 years: A dysfunctional GOP, lurching from crisis to crisis
The GOP’s doomsday clock keeps ticking: Why the worst is yet to come in Congress
Conor Lynch
Congress appears poised to avoid a government shutdown this week, but that doesn't mean we're in the clear
Ronald Reagan would hate you all: The real history today’s right wing will never understand
Christopher Parker
House Republicans and Tea Partyers just don't get it: Their idol was actually nothing like them
Jeb! for president never made any sense: Why his precipitous collapse is far from surprising
Sean Illing
Bush's campaign is flagging and donors are getting anxious. Could anyone have seen this coming? Yes, yes we could
Stop calling Ted Cruz a conservative: This self-promoting narcissist is a fraud and a nihilist
Sean Illing
Labeling Cruz a conservative underestimates how dangerous he is. It's time we called out this Messianic crusader
The unexpected upshot of John Boehner’s ouster: The Trans-Pacific Partnership is in danger
David Dayen
Critics on both sides of the aisle were already unhappy with the TPP — and now conservatives are feeling bold
“Crazies have taken over the party”: Why even Republicans are worried about John Boehner’s ouster
Bob Cesca
John Boehner is on the way out, which means the extremist faction of the GOP is on the way up
“Hollywood, I mean, the GOP establishment”: Did Steve Doocy just reveal the depth of Fox News’ antipathy for moderate Republicans?
Scott Eric Kaufman
Was the "Fox & Friends" co-host's remark a Freudian slip or just an inexplicable but honest mistake?
It is time to get very afraid: Extremists, authoritarians now run the GOP — and no one can stop them
Heather Cox Richardson
Boehner and McConnell weren't conservative enough for them. Nor Eric Cantor. Right-wing purists won't stop here
John Boehner’s tears and Pope Francis’ radical challenge: A spiritual leader rises as a political nonentity falls
Andrew O'Hehir
Was the doomed speaker weeping in shame? He should have, because the pope exposed the abject failure of politics
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