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Donald Trump orders Republicans to unite behind him. Here’s why they almost certainly will

Some Republicans are implying they'll never follow the Donald's lead. Don't believe it for a second

Elias Isquith Monday, Mar 7, 2016 7:14 PM UTC 0
Elections Donald Trump, GOP 2016

“It’s shameless financial strip-mining”: Les Leopold explains how the 1 percent killed the middle class

The "pro-business" model of capitalism is broken — and getting worse, author and activist Les Leopold tells Salon

Elias Isquith Sunday, Mar 6, 2016 6:02 PM UTC 0
Business Les Leopold, Runaway Inequality

Rubio’s doomed attack: Laughable strategy to beat Donald Trump at his own game is DOA

With obvious desperation, the establishment favorite is copying the Donald's shtick. Here's why it won't work

Elias Isquith Tuesday, Mar 1, 2016 10:56 AM UTC 0
Elections Marco Rubio, Donald Trump

David Brooks won’t admit it, but Donald Trump is partially his fault

The star pundit is tired of so-called antipolitics. But before he makes accusations, he should look at himself

Elias Isquith Saturday, Feb 27, 2016 11:30 AM UTC 0
Media David Brooks, Donald Trump

We’re not laughing: Trump reigns in latest, unsettling GOP debate

Final debate before Super Tuesday was the most Trump-centric one yet. Nowadays, though, this show isn't so funny

Elias Isquith Friday, Feb 26, 2016 5:45 PM UTC 0
Elections Donald Trump, Ted Cruz

The flailing, incompetent GOP establishment: Reince Priebus’ new plan to control Trump is pathetic

Republican Party leadership is trying to pretend it hasn't been soundly defeated. It's failing

Elias Isquith Thursday, Feb 25, 2016 6:41 PM UTC 0
Elections Reince Priebus, GOP 2016

“People understand that the game is rigged”: Ice cream icon Jerry Greenfield explains why he’s sweet on Bernie for prez

Sanders' early success shows how serious Americans are about getting money out of politics, Greenfield tells Salon

Elias Isquith Thursday, Feb 25, 2016 12:59 PM UTC 0
Elections jerry greenfield, Inequality

These guys let Trump happen: Why you can blame the cowardly GOP establishment for The Donald’s rise

The party establishment is finally admitting that the Donald is no fluke. Their solution? Run and hide

Elias Isquith Wednesday, Feb 24, 2016 5:35 PM UTC 0
Elections Donald Trump, Koch Brothers

“It’s been used as a weapon”: How right-wing judges have perverted Brown v. Board beyond recognition

Hallowed Supreme Court ruling works today as "roadmap" for "de facto segregated schools," Scott Lemieux tells Salon

Elias Isquith Tuesday, Feb 23, 2016 12:59 PM UTC 0
Elections John Roberts, Antonin Scalia

The last stand of tolerance in the Republican Party: What Trump vs. Rubio would reveal about GOP voters

If the race comes down to Rubio vs. Trump, GOP voters will finally tell us what they think it means to be American

Elias Isquith Monday, Feb 22, 2016 6:50 PM UTC 0
Elections Marco Rubio, Donald Trump

“Something bold needs to happen”: An in-depth look at millennial America

Young Americans are anxious to "disrupt" and upend a broken status quo, Roosevelt Institute expert tells Salon

Elias Isquith Saturday, Feb 20, 2016 11:30 AM UTC 0
Elections Joelle Gamble

Marco Rubio flip-flops on immigration: The GOP’s most “electable” candidate just got even more extreme

The more the GOP establishment commits to Marco Rubio's candidacy, the more unelectable he gets

Elias Isquith Friday, Feb 19, 2016 6:34 PM UTC 0
Elections Marco Rubio, Greg Sargent

Paul Krugman is wrong: Why his case against Bernie Sanders misses the point

The New York Times columnist's defenses of wonkery are well-intentioned. But politics and policy are not the same

Elias Isquith Friday, Feb 19, 2016 12:00 PM UTC 0
Elections Paul Krugman, Bernie Sanders

Bigger talk, smaller stick: Has Donald Trump found a way to sell GOP voters on non-intervention?

The Donald's latest verbal assault on Sen. Lindsey Graham shows him — yet again — doing what other GOPers can't

Elias Isquith Thursday, Feb 18, 2016 12:59 PM UTC 0
Elections Donald Trump

GOP’s desperate Marco Rubio reboot: The #marcomentum narrative is just pathetic and will go nowhere

Why are the GOP establishment and the D.C. press corps trying to revive Rubio 2016? Because he's all they've got

Elias Isquith Wednesday, Feb 17, 2016 6:33 PM UTC 0
Elections Marco Rubio, John Kasich

“Out of this chaos, strongmen will emerge”: Richard Engel sees an authoritarian future in the Middle East

The U.S. must fight "a very strong temptation" to embrace stabilizing dictators, author and journalist tells Salon

Elias Isquith Wednesday, Feb 17, 2016 12:59 PM UTC 0
News Richard Engel, Middle East

The Sanders campaign is flirting with danger: The two big warning signs coming out of last week’s debate

His long-shot bid is still cruising. But two recent errors, one stylistic, the other substantive, recommend caution

Elias Isquith Saturday, Feb 13, 2016 1:00 PM UTC 0
Elections Bernie Sanders, mark kleiman

“Dominated” by the CIA: The national security state is more entrenched than ever — and leakers like Edward Snowden are its only obstacle

We Americans have put "all our faith in the intelligence agencies," author and historian Lloyd Gardner warns Salon

Elias Isquith Friday, Feb 12, 2016 7:12 PM UTC 0
Politics lloyd gardner, Edward Snowden

“People of color … have to be the first thought”: Why it’s time for Democrats to give up on swing-voting whites

Unless Democrats invest in a multiracial coalition, they'll lose, expert and author Steve Phillips tells Salon

Elias Isquith Friday, Feb 12, 2016 12:57 PM UTC 0
Elections steve phillips, Bernie Sanders

Nate Silver is having a bad election: Why he should tell us if he thinks he’s made a mistake

The consummate wonk has made journalism better. But he's at risk of turning into the kind of pundit he hates

Elias Isquith Thursday, Feb 11, 2016 10:59 PM UTC 0
Elections Nate Silver, Donald Trump

“They think the system’s rigged”: Why millennials love Bernie Sanders (and hate Donald Trump)

Millennials are sick of a status quo that leaves them underpaid and indebted, pollster Stan Greenberg tells Salon

Elias Isquith Thursday, Feb 11, 2016 6:31 PM UTC 0
Elections Stan Greenberg, Democracy Corps

“More corporate money in our elections”: Believe it or not, big money is about to get even more powerful

Campaign finance law was already in tatters. But according to expert Richard L. Hasen, it'll soon get even worse

Elias Isquith Wednesday, Feb 10, 2016 11:49 PM UTC 0
Elections richard l. hasen, rick hasen

Trump’s on the rise and The Marcobot is on the fritz: Why Marco Rubio’s New Hampshire disaster could be the beginning of the end

Every pundit's favorite Republican was supposed to be poised to become the anti-Trump. Now he's hanging by a thread

Elias Isquith Wednesday, Feb 10, 2016 12:20 PM UTC 0
Elections Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush

Psychoanalyzing Marco Rubio: After painful gaffes, speculation spreads that his problem isn’t stupidity — it’s anxiety

Rubio has a reputation for letting his anxiety get the better of him — and he can't hide it on the campaign trail

Elias Isquith Tuesday, Feb 9, 2016 6:02 PM UTC 0
Elections Marco Rubio, GOP debate

“They just don’t have any other option”: Why crappy wages are ruining the American dream — and costing taxpayers

Our low-wage economy isn't just immoral. It's inefficient and expensive, too, researcher David Cooper tells Salon

Elias Isquith Tuesday, Feb 9, 2016 12:57 PM UTC 0
Business Economic Policy Institute

The real threat to Wall Street is not Bernie Sanders — it’s Donald Trump

Bankers are worried about Sanders. But Trump's the one whose attacks are increasingly dehumanizing — and dangerous

Elias Isquith Monday, Feb 8, 2016 8:21 PM UTC 0
Elections Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon

“The corrupt are winning”: Why these reformers want to make politicians wear their donors on their sleeves — literally

We know many politicians are owned by their donors. This ballot initiative would make make it impossible to miss

Elias Isquith Monday, Feb 8, 2016 2:06 PM UTC 0
Politics John Cox

Why Chris Christie’s beatdown of Marco Rubio was the only moment from the GOP debate that mattered

Sen. Marco Rubio had to fend off an assault from the Garden State bully. Instead, he nearly self-destructed

Elias Isquith Sunday, Feb 7, 2016 3:37 AM UTC 0
Elections Marco Rubio, Chris Christie

Fighting “corporate control of education”: A millennial education wonk goes to war against neoliberal reform

Refuting reformers is not enough. The left must also offer an alternative, activist/author Nikhil Goyal tells Salon

Elias Isquith Saturday, Feb 6, 2016 11:30 AM UTC 0
Elections

The worst Sanders attack yet? Jonathan Chait charges that Bernie is against “pluralism” — and that’s simply absurd

After latest debate, Chait says Sanders — unlike Clinton — is an enemy of "pluralism." Here's why he's wrong

Elias Isquith Friday, Feb 5, 2016 8:22 PM UTC 0
Elections Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump might actually be right about something: It appears he was “schlonged” by Ted Cruz’s Iowa “dirty trick”

More and more, it's starting to look like the Donald's complaints about the Iowa caucuses have real teeth

Elias Isquith Thursday, Feb 4, 2016 9:01 PM UTC 0
Elections

“Changing your politics is usually traumatic”: Why Republican converts like Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump are so influential — and complicated

Converts show how inseparable our personalities and our politics really are, author Daniel Oppenheimer tells Salon

Elias Isquith Wednesday, Feb 3, 2016 7:13 PM UTC 0
Politics Daniel Oppenheimer

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