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Jim Newell

Jim Newell covers politics and media for Salon.

The RINO-ing of Megyn Kelly: Has Trump made it okay for all candidates to blow her off?

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The reignited Donald Trump-Fox News “feud”: A cynical show that serves all parties’ interests

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Scott Walker and Jeb Bush try Trumpism: Unsurprisingly, they just look like dopes

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This could be how Trump’s momentum ends: Why his flip-flop on self-funding undercuts his appeal

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Scott Walker (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

Scott Walker’s stunning implosion: Can this dope’s campaign be saved?

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Bill Kristol (AP/Janet Van Ham)

Bill Kristol’s best idea yet: Sam Alito for president!

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Fear the Cruz: The ultra-conservative senator is stronger than he appears

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Chuck Schumer, U.S. Senator, who hails from Brooklyn (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

No Chuck Schumer, no problem: The Iran deal is surviving despite the influential senator’s protest

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Jeb’s doomed Trump strategy: Bush tries to play mean — but there’s no way he wins an insult contest with The Donald

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Plutocrats love Jeb, but voters don’t: Bush’s “electability” argument is getting even weaker

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GOP’s Obamacare replacement nightmare: Even Scott Walker is a RINO squish now

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Donald Trump is tearing conservative media apart: How his candidacy sparked a right-wing civil war

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The GOP’s birthright citizenship test: The simple way to tell who actually wants to win the White House

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Scott Walker’s sad comeback strategy: A halfhearted Donald Trump imitation

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Non-politicians seize control: Trump, Carson & Fiorina are surging — but how long will it last?

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Rand and Ron Paul (Reuters/Jim Young)

How desperate is Rand Paul? He’s calling in Daddy for help

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Scott Walker’s in big trouble: The danger of peaking in Iowa too early

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The Hillary bed-wetters: “Acela-corridor allies” are freaking out, because that’s what useless people do

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GOP hawks are all the same: Jeb Bush is hardly the only candidate with an Iraq war problem

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Trump the indestructible: Not even his bizarre Planned Parenthood defense will do him in

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Jeb Bush (AP/John Raoux)

Jeb Bush spotlights a major Obama foreign policy failure — just not the one he meant to

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John Kasich is Jeb’s worst nightmare: Why his New Hampshire gains should terrify Bush

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Rick Perry (AP/Pat Sullivan)

Rick Perry’s campaign is broke: Fortunately his plutocrat-funded super PACs are not!

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FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2015 file photo, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. The rich aren’t taxed enough and the middle-class is taxed too much. As for your taxes, you probably think they’re too high as well. Those are the results of a new Associated Press-GfK poll, which found that most Americans support President Barack Obama’s proposal to raise investment taxes on high-income families. The findings echo the populist messages of Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, two liberals being courted by the progressive wing of the Democratic Party to run for president in 2016. The findings also add weight to Obama’s new push to raise taxes on the rich and use some of the revenue to lower taxes on the middle class. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) (AP/Susan Walsh)

Third Way Dems’ new war on Elizabeth Warren progressives: Why their centrist pitch is a political loser

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