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“A Telling Shift In Dynamics Of GOP Politics”: Why 2016 Is Different For The...
Billions of pixels have been spilled about Trump, Fiorina, the radical extremism of the GOP base and the fecklessness of Republican establishment candidates. But while numerous ad hoc explanations...
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“Badly In Need Of Some New Talking Points”: Rubio Needs A New Excuse To...
As recently as two years ago, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) made his favorite case for doing absolutely nothing about the climate crisis. First, the far-right senator argued “government can’t change the...
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“How Change Happens”: Don’t Let Idealism Veer Into Destructive Self-Indulgence
There are still quite a few pundits determined to pretend that America’s two great parties are symmetric — equally unwilling to face reality, equally pushed into extreme positions by special interests...
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“A Gift For America’s Future”: To Get America Moving, Tax Financial Transactions
The financial transaction tax is not an idea whose time has just now come; it simply has returned. From 1914 to 1966, our country taxed all sales and transfers of stock. The tax was doubled in the last...
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“As Confused As Goats On Astroturf”: The Clueless GOP Establishment Is...
Elites tend to be… well, elite. As in, “clueless” about what your everyday working stiff is thinking. This is not a problem for most hoity-toities, for they don’t deal with the great unwashed. But...
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“Courting With Disaster”: GOP Elites Think Stealing The Nomination From Trump...
The Republican presidential primary is settling into one of history’s most familiar grooves: Failing elites confront an internal rebellion by doing their absolute utmost to change nothing whatsoever....
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“Trump Drives Spike Into Culture War Politics”: Trump’s Second-Best...
Days before the Indiana primary, Ted Cruz paraded his two young daughters in matching pink dresses and spoke darkly of “putting little girls alone in a bathroom with grown men.” This was a visual that,...
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“The Id That Ate The Planet”: At This Point Donald Trump’s Personality...
On Tuesday the political arm of the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of America’s most influential environmentalist groups, made its first presidential endorsement ever, giving the nod to Hillary...
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“A Tale Of Two Parties”: Only One Party’s Establishment Was Already Dead Inside
Do you remember what happened when the Berlin Wall fell? Until that moment, nobody realized just how decadent Communism had become. It had tanks, guns, and nukes, but nobody really believed in its...
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