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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
John Boehner was really bad at his job. Now things are about to get epically worse
Paul Rosenberg
The right was never controllable. Boehner's enduring shame will be having not reached across the aisle to govern
Carly Fiorina’s despicable Planned Parenthood lies have gotten even worse
Heather Digby Parton
The GOP upstart made news with her absurd claims about reproductive health at the last GOP debate. It gets worse
John Boehner’s legacy of failure: He resigns with few admirers and fewer accomplishments
Simon Maloy
Speaker Boehner steps down after four years of gridlock and toxic political fighting. Don't expect much to change
John Boehner’s shutdown secret: Why he might allow the government to go dark to save his job
Simon Maloy
It'd be disastrous, but John Boehner may see a government shutdown as the best way to secure his speakership
Lindsey Graham’s new mission: Troll the hell out of Ted Cruz
Simon Maloy
Languishing at the bottom of the 2016 GOP polls, Lindsey Graham is preparing to declare war on a Senate colleague
Sorry, Ted Cruz: Defunding Planned Parenthood would actually increase government spending
Sophia Tesfaye
CBO report warns Republicans' budget-busting defunding plan would cost $130 million by shifting burden to Medicaid
“Right-wing Marxists”: The looming shutdown has Republicans at each others’ throats
Simon Maloy
An influential Republican whacks his conservative colleagues as de facto allies of Nancy Pelosi. He's not wrong
Ted Cruz’s diabolical shutdown strategy: Why the GOP senator wants to watch the world burn
Heather Digby Parton
The government is hurtling towards yet another shutdown this fall. The man with the most to gain: Ted Cruz
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