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“At The Top Of The To-Do List For 2017”: Here’s What Will Happen On Taxes If...
The Tax Policy Center has released an analysis of Marco Rubio’s tax plan, which, like their analyses of Jeb Bush’s plan and Donald Trump’s plan, shows that it would result in a staggering increase in...
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“Sanders’ ‘Medicare For All'”: The Devil Is In The Details
Bernie Sanders is a proud and self-described socialist, a veteran Vermont senator who wants to bring some European ideas to the United States. One of those ideas is a single-payer health care system: a...
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“A Pledge He Can’t Keep”: Bernie’s Prison Promise Is Too Good To Be True
Democrats’ embarrassment of riches was on display last night in Milwaukee. Watching the two candidates, the choice between Hillary Clinton’s pragmatism and Bernie Sander’s idealism feels less like a...
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“Never As Consistently Anti-Intervention As Advertised”: Vetting Bernie: He...
The only topic that preoccupies Bernie Sanders more than income inequality is his vote against authorization of war in Iraq, which he mentions at every debate and whenever anyone questions his foreign...
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“That 1992 Clip Of Biden Is Very Misleading”: No, Joe Biden Is Not A Supreme...
It’s a mighty thin reed that Republican leaders hang onto when they selectively cite then-Sen. Joe Biden’s remarks from 24 years ago as evidence to deny any Obama appointee to the Supreme Court a fair...
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“Gaming Election Laws”: Donald Trump’s Right That The Game Is Rigged—For Him...
Win or lose, Donald Trump appears poised to come out ahead financially from his run for the White House thanks to campaign finance laws that, as he has pointed out, were not written with candidates of...
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“They Haven’t Learned Yet”: Republican’s Love Affair With Voodoo Economics
In a moment of sanity, George HW Bush once called Ronald Reagan’s proposal for tax cuts “voodoo economics.” The idea was that tax cuts for the wealthy would somehow “trickle down” to the rest of us and...
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“An Outdated Myth — An Illusion”: How The Media Created, And Then Killed,...
Feel The Bern! Trump Train! Cruz-mentum! There’s so much talk in the 2016 presidential race about momentum — the “Big Mo,” as it’s been dubbed for a quarter century. But here’s the truth: The power of...
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“Dear Bernie Sanders; Black Votes Matter”: In The South, Black Votes Matter —...
African Americans in the South can’t get a break when it comes to voting, as history can’t deny. After all they’ve endured through slavery, Jim Crow and the fight for civil rights, their voices are...
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“Republicans Souring On Their Own Party”: America Hasn’t Disliked The...
A shocking new poll suggests that Donald Trump may actually be hurting the image of the Republican Party. While most assumed that the GOP’s embrace of an openly misogynistic, proudly ignorant...
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“Cheney Hates Trump, Endorses Him Anyway”: He’s Just Fine With Trump Leading...
Dick Cheney’s presidential pick is a man he once suggested was a 9/11 truther. Cheney reportedly told CNN on Friday he intends to support the GOP nominee in 2016, just as he has every prior cycle. This...
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“Delivering Remarks On All Four Nights”: Trump Is Going To Make The GOP...
Earlier this week I made the case for abolishing national political party conventions on the grounds that they serve no real function and follow entirely archaic patterns that no longer make much...
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“The Hysteria Of The Hillary Haters”: An Exaggerated Animosity Lacking Any...
Over the past few weeks, Republican politicians and party officials have begun the dreary and demoralizing work of reconciling themselves to the prospect of Donald Trump serving as the GOP’s...
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“Keeping The Jackasses Out Of Power”: Trump’s Unique Ability To Help Clinton...
One of the most common questions in Democratic politics is obvious, though it’s not easy to answer: Once the primaries are over, how will Hillary Clinton unify progressive voters ahead of the general...
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“Trump’s Delusions Of Competence”: Running A National Economy Is Nothing Like...
In general, you shouldn’t pay much attention to polls at this point, especially with Republicans unifying around Donald Trump while Bernie Sanders hasn’t conceded the inevitable. Still, I was struck by...
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“Serial Husbands”: A Trump-Gingrich Ticket Would Make A Mockery Of Family Values
If, as some pundits are speculating, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald John Trump picks Newton Leroy Gingrich as his running mate, the two will go down in history as a presidential...
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“Every Republican’s Stench”: Trump’s White Supremacist Tweets Aren’t The...
We get worked up about a lot of silly stuff in presidential campaigns, micro-controversies driven by faux outrage that are inevitably forgotten in a couple of days once the next micro-controversy comes...
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“The Final And Most Powerful Advantage”: Hillary Clinton Has A Secret Weapon....
Hillary Clinton is crushing Donald Trump. In the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, she thumped Trump 51 percent to 39 percent among registered voters nationwide. That’s an almost inconceivable...
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“Politically Inconvenient Truths”: Gingrich Shows How Far He’ll Go To Be Vice...
One month ago today, Newt Gingrich was asked to comment on Donald Trump’s racist remarks about Judge Gonzalo Curiel, and the former House Speaker was surprisingly candid. “This is one of the worst...
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“The Bandwagon Effect”: How Trump’s Dog Whistles Work
The headline from an article by Jill Colvin and Matthew Daly caught my eye: Trump: ‘A Lot Of People’ Feel That Black Lives Matter Is ‘Inherently Racist.” Here’s the context: Trump also had harsh words...
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