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Topic: Reihan Salam

(AP/Reuters/Stephan Savoia/Brian Snyder/Joshua Roberts/Photo montage by Salon)

How Trump conquered the GOP

Elias Isquith
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Elon Musk will not save us

Elias Isquith
Ted Cruz, Jim DeMint, Rand Paul (Reuters/Gary Cameron/Sean Gardner/Larry Downing)

You call these "moderates"?!

Heather Digby Parton
(AP/Scott Sady)

Slate's silly Amazon defense

Elias Isquith
Paul Ryan (AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

"Blame the victim" disease

Elias Isquith
Rand Paul (AP/Stephan Savoia)

Tea Party's embarrassing irony

Elias Isquith
John Boehner, Mitch McConnell (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP's unemployment chutzpah

Simon Maloy
Dick Cheney, George W. Bush (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Neocons are back, still awful

Freddie deBoer
Ted Cruz, Newt Gingrich, Rand Paul (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Tami Chappell/AP/Ed Reinke)

GOP's healthcare self-delusion

Brian Beutler
Josh Barro (Michael Seto)

My party is crazy and awful

Josh Eidelson