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There's something in the air in New Hampshire. It just ain’t civility, competence and experience
Sunday, Mar 6, 2016 10:58 AM UTC 0Elections Elections 2016, Editor's Picks
There's something in the air in New Hampshire. It just ain’t civility, competence and experience
Rick Perlstein, Washington Spectator Sunday, Mar 6, 2016 10:58 AM UTC 0Bernie stands alone: He has proven the power of economic populism, but to a party still deaf to what he has shown
Rick Perlstein, Washington Spectator Saturday, Mar 5, 2016 2:29 PM UTC 0Trump is the product of the GOP's politics. Now they want to kill their Frankenstein? Good luck with that
Rick Perlstein, Washington Spectator Friday, Mar 4, 2016 6:15 PM UTC 0Reality has never had much to do with conservative cult that extols firepower as the answer to all of life's issues
Rick Perlstein, Washington Spectator Friday, Feb 5, 2016 10:57 AM UTC 0He sought common ground and to get past red states and blue states for too long. Free of that, look at the progress
Rick Perlstein, Washington Spectator Wednesday, Jan 20, 2016 7:53 PM UTC 0I spent days with Sanders fans across red states. They watch Fox, live in the heartland, and are voting for Bernie
Rick Perlstein, Washington Spectator Monday, Oct 12, 2015 8:58 PM UTC 0Previous right-wing leaders had a healthy fear of the rage they unleashed from their base. Not this one
Rick Perlstein, Washington Spectator Wednesday, Oct 7, 2015 4:59 PM UTC 0When Carter was correct, he nailed it. When the right is wrong, they stay wrong -- forever
Rick Perlstein, Washington Spectator Saturday, Sep 5, 2015 3:00 PM UTC 0Campaign journalism isn't just the worst -- horserace nonsense actively obscures how the rich bought the system
Rick Perlstein Thursday, Jul 30, 2015 9:58 AM UTC 0Take down the rebel flag and then Trump's anti-immigration flag goes up. Such hatred is the GOP's only strategy
Rick Perlstein, Washington Spectator Thursday, Jul 16, 2015 12:32 PM UTC 0Ford let Nixon off 40 years ago today. That launched Iran-Contra, "too big to fail" -- and proved power trumps law
Rick Perlstein Monday, Sep 8, 2014 11:44 AM UTC 0From Cliven Bundy defeating the cops to "open carry" movement's menace, the left's timidity has spawned a nightmare
Rick Perlstein Monday, Jun 23, 2014 11:44 AM UTC 0Listen up, Democrats: Obama didn't win by promising a compromise on entitlement reform. He won despite it
Rick Perlstein Thursday, Nov 8, 2012 10:00 PM UTC 0First Wisconsin. Then Occupy. Now Chicago. The teachers' strike is the next chapter in the fight against plutocracy
Rick Perlstein Tuesday, Sep 11, 2012 11:45 AM UTC 0Like any good Southern conservative of his generation, he ignores the entire bad faith stew in which he was raised
Rick Perlstein Wednesday, Dec 22, 2010 1:01 PM UTC 0The author of "What's the Matter With Kansas?" discusses the corrosive relationship between conservatives and business, liberal bias and his new book about Republican misrule.
Rick Perlstein Thursday, Aug 7, 2008 10:33 AM UTC 0Pundits say if the party gets too tough with Bush, it will be blamed for "losing" Iraq. But the real political risk is going too easy on Bush, and losing the trust of war-weary voters.
Rick Perlstein Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 12:32 PM UTC 0He was a true believer who moved the country divisively to the right. But compared to the current president, Ronald Reagan looks like a moderate.
Rick Perlstein Monday, Jun 7, 2004 9:33 PM UTC 0Rick Perlstein is the author of "The Invisible Bridge," "Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America" and "Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus." He is also the national correspondent for the Washington Spectator.