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Presidential checklist: jockeying for position
Calvin Woodward
GOP’s real Ted Cruz problem: Why party’s revenge plot is silly and self-defeating
Simon Maloy
Republicans are in a bad predicament with Cruz -- but it's their own fault, and there's little they can do about it
Disgusting scandal could cost lives in Virginia: How suspected quid pro quo may doom Medicaid expansion
Simon Maloy
GOP lures legislator to quit in return for plum job. Result: GOP regains Legislature, vows to cut health coverage
Ted Cruz’s Reagan strategy: What’s behind his sinister plan for 2016
Heather Digby Parton
By Cruz's telling, the Tea Party of 2016 is like the conservative movement of 1980. There's just one problem
It’s still Santorum’s party: Pro-LGBT Republican group GOProud folds
Elias Isquith
A quixotic attempt to carve out a relevant pro-LGBT space in the modern GOP fails
McConnell’s humiliating conundrum: How he could win a majority but be axed as leader
Jim Newell
When a campaign strategy lunges so far to the right that it eats its own
It’s all a lie: Inside John Boehner’s twisted immigration cowardice
Simon Maloy
Hopes for immigration reform rest on the speaker's self-interested refusal to act. Here's what happens next
Libertarians’ reality problem: How an estrangement from history yields abject failure
Kim Messick
The libertarian tradition fundamentally misunderstands human life. No wonder its adherents get politics so wrong
Jill Abramson was right to get a lawyer: “Pushy” women get paid
Katie McDonough
NYT editor's bringing a lawyer into a pay dispute may have ended her career. But she made the exact right choice
GOP’s empty agenda problem: Party’s poised to take power, but agrees on nothing
Simon Maloy
Intraparty squabbling and ideological rifts leave GOP leadership handcuffed. Here's why they may accomplish nothing
Eric Cantor’s angry new enemy: Why Tea Party wants to take him down
Simon Maloy
A loony extremist's doomed campaign will shift GOP politics even further to the right. Here's how
Cliven Bundy is the face of GOP’s war on the poor
Andrea Flynn
The Nevada rancher's remarks about slavery were horrible, but he speaks to a deeper issue with conservative policy
LA Kings shut down Ducks 3-1, take 2-0 series lead
Greg Beacham
Presidential checklist: preparations in motion
Calvin Woodward
Why whites don’t see racism: Reagan Democrats are Stephen Colbert Democrats now
Sheryll Cashin
With different frames of reference, the perception gap on racial issues is widening -- and affects policy choices
Obamacare will be vindicated by history: From JFK to FDR, here’s how the nation’s memory works
Ronan Keenan
From Gettysburg Address to space exploration, pitfalls of our nation's big moments rarely make the history books
Weibo: We can’t censor our users enough to satisfy the Chinese government
ProPublica
Weibo, "China's Twitter," releases new details about censorship operation in company's regulatory filing
GOP’s purple-state problem: How a Virginia Medicaid battle augurs huge risks for the party
Simon Maloy
The big test for Republicans: Can they really stay opposed to Medicaid expansion -- and still survive politically?
The dumbest thing the right is saying about Sebelius’ replacement
Joan Walsh
As dumb as it is predictable: Conservatives now blame Sylvia Burwell, not Ted Cruz, for the government shutdown
After Colbert: Comedy Central should give Samantha Bee her own show
Sarah Gray
"The Daily Show's" Most Senior Correspondent is wickedly funny. Also: A woman
Tea Partyers in the House plot to overthrow John Boehner
Elias Isquith
Election 2014 is still months away, but hardcore conservatives in Congress are already planning for the future
Jim DeMint: The federal government had nothing to do with emancipating the slaves
Elias Isquith
The former South Carolina senator and current head of the Heritage Foundation is not exactly an historian
Election-year GOP split over home-state projects
Bill Barrow
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