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Bernie Sanders vs. the 1 percent’s propaganda machine: Can he convince Americans to stop voting against their self-interest?
Conor Lynch
For a generation, working class Republicans have been undermining themselves. This is Bernie's biggest challenge
We might really elect a loon: Ben Carson, Ted Cruz and a GOP gripped by wingnut fever
Bill Curry
Democrats always believe the GOP will sober up and nominate someone sensible. There is zero guarantee this time
Quit with the “PC” hysteria: College kids are not trying to steal your freedom of speech
Amanda Marcotte
Well, that didn't take long: The Missouri protests kick off another round of hysteria over "political correctness"
They still can’t win next year: Bigots and Tea Party wingnuts prevailed yesterday, but that doesn’t equate to President Carson
Paul Rosenberg
Yes, the know-nothings prevail when no one else comes out. The presidential race remains unwinnable. Here's why
How the GOP almost forced a Social Security disaster: Everything you need to know about their disgraceful hostage-taking
Nancy Altman
Prior to last week's budget deal, the GOP was doing everything it could to dismantle Social Security. Here's how
CNBC did ask substantive questions. That’s why Republicans are mad
Amanda Marcotte
The GOP claims that CNBC didn't ask substantive questions. In reality, substantive questions angered conservatives
Bye bye, Boehner: Paul Ryan elected 62nd Speaker of the House
Alan Fram
John Boehner's 4.5-year tenure as speaker comes to a close as the fractious GOP turns to Paul Ryan
The grim lesson of Boehner’s budget deal: American democracy is broken
Elias Isquith
The outgoing speaker did the right thing by "cleaning the barn" before he left. But what about the next mess?
“This is what GOP surrender looks like”: Right-wingers lose it over budget deal between Congress and White House
Sophia Tesfaye
The U.S. government just avoided economic calamity. Naturally, the extreme right is unhappy
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
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