Donald Trump's Ignorant Honesty
Al Drago/CQ Roll Call/AP ImagesRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Racine, Wisconsin, Saturday, April 2, 2016. For a guy so eager to tell you about the...
View ArticleRepublicans Haven't Stopped Digging Their Hole with Latino Voters
(Photo: AP/Wilfredo Lee)GOP presidential candidates Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz stand onstage during the March 10 Republican presidential debate.You might remember how back in March 2012, Mitt...
View ArticleWhy Hillary Clinton Could Be the Kind of President Bernie Sanders Supporters...
AP Photo/Seth WenigDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton listens to a speaker at a rally in the Staten Island borough of New York, Sunday, April 17, 2016. It's frustrating to be a Bernie...
View ArticleWhy Republicans Couldn't Make 2016 Their Version of 2008
AP Photo/Manuel Balce CenetaSupporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, wave as they wait in an airplane hangar in Hagerstown, Maryland, Sunday, April 24, 2016. Parties exist in large...
View ArticleThe Real Stakes in the Veepstakes
This article appears in the Spring 2016 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Sometime in July—assuming nothing derails her nomination—Hillary Clinton will announce to the country...
View ArticleWhy Hillary Clinton May be Doomed to Repeat the Obama Presidency
AP Photo/Paul SancyaDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the NAACP's 61st annual Fight for Freedom Fund dinner in Detroit, Sunday, May 1, 2016. Barack Obama's presidency, we can...
View ArticleDonald Trump Is a New Kind of Dissembler
AP Photo/Ted S. WarrenRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Spokane, Washington, Saturday, May 7, 2016. Most partisans would probably tell you that while their own...
View ArticleSpare a Thought For Those Condemned to Defend Donald Trump
AP Photo/J. Scott ApplewhiteRepublican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus answers questions from The Associated Press about Thursday's face-to-face meeting between Donald Trump, the GOP's...
View Article"Never Trump!" Is Becoming "Go Trump!" in the Blink of an Eye
(Photo: AP/picture-alliance/Chris Kleponis)GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives for a metting with House Speaker Paul Ryan at the National Republican Congressional Committee headquarters in...
View ArticleWhy There Will Be More Violence During This Campaign
AP Photo/Noah BergerA man leaving a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump squares off against protesters following him on Thursday, June 2, 2016, in San Jose, California. A...
View ArticleWhat's Still True in the Wake of the Orlando Massacre
AP Photo/Phelan M. EbenhackOrlando Police officers direct family members away from a fatal shooting at Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Sunday, June 12, 2016. Whenever there's a terrorist...
View ArticleThe Question Gun Advocates Should Have to Answer
AP Photo/John LocherHandguns are on display at the Smith & Wesson booth at the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show, Tuesday, January 19, 2016, in Las Vegas. As we have yet another round of our...
View ArticleThe Last Berniebro?
Senator Bernie Sanders delivers his "Where We Go From Here" speech on Friday, June 24, 2016, in Albany, New York. “I've got this thing,” said the politician on a secretly recorded phone call, “and it's...
View ArticleEnough With the 'Optics' and the 'Narrative'
AP Photo/Julio Cortez, FileIn this June 7, 2016, file photo, former President Bill Clinton, left, stands on stage with his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, after she spoke...
View ArticleWhy 2016 Could Be a Turning Point on Guns
Chelsea Purgahn/Kalamazoo Gazette via APAdriana Echols, center, at a July 9 vigil in Kalamazoo, Mich., held in response to recent violence across the nation.I've been a gun control pessimist for about...
View ArticleTrumpapalooza Should Be One Hot Mess of a Convention
Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx/AP ImagesDonald Trump with Ivanka Trump announces Mike Pence as his VP pick, July 16, 2016. In most election years, you can count on at least a few pundits to lament that...
View ArticleWhy Tim Kaine Is the Progressives' Dream
The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP ImagesHillary Clinton and Tim Kaine appear for the frst time together on the stage in Miami, Florida, on July 23, 2016.The vice presidency tends to be vastly overrated during...
View ArticleDonald Trump's Fight With the Parents of a Fallen Soldier Is Just What His...
AP Photo/Evan VucciRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally, Wednesday, July 27, 2016, in Toledo, Ohio. Donald Trump is no professional politician, that's for sure....
View ArticleWould Liberals Support a Donald Trump of the Left? In the End, They Probably...
AP Photo/Evan VucciRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Friday, August 5, 2016, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. We all like to think of ourselves as principled,...
View ArticleThe Article Trump Wishes the Dishonest Media Would Write
(Photo: AP/Evan Vucci)Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, on August 13, 2016.Donald Trump has been complaining loudly in recent days that...
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