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The Big Idea
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Beating Guns the Bloomberg Way
The New York mayor, not Obama, knows how to defeat the NRA.
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Why Did Romney Overpay His Taxes?
It’s dumb. Also, he swore he would never do it.
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Julian Castro vs. Marco Rubio
Who made the better case that Latinos should vote for his party?
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Chicago Style
Romney is accusing Obama of practicing “Chicago-style politics.” Apparently, he has no idea what that means.
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Obama Outfoxes Romney
The president’s agility on gay marriage and immigration is making his rival look stodgy and unprincipled.
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Romney Is Kerry. Or Maybe Gore.
He’s too handsome, too rich, and too pompous to win the hearts of ordinary Americans.
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Face It: Romney’s the Nominee
The media will desperately try to persuade you there is still a Republican race. Do not pay attention.
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Is Newt Nuts?
Consider the symptoms: Bouts of grandiosity, megalomania, irritability, impulsiveness, spending sprees …
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Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party: Compare and Contrast
One looks cooler. The other smells better. Do they agree on anything?
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Mitt’s Unlikely Victory
It’s the most conservative GOP in decades. So why will a moderate like Romney win the presidential nomination?
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Don't Believe Ron Suskind
His book about Obama is as spurious as the ones he wrote about Bush.
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"Let Him Die"
A debate question exposes the incoherence—and cowardice—of the Republican candidates' opposition to Obamacare.
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Republicans vs. Economics
Does the GOP oppose Obama's jobs plan for ideological reasons or political ones?
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Lessons of the Crisis
The debt-ceiling debacle revealed that politics is broken in every possible way and there's no point in explaining complicated matters to the American people.
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The Ryan Reaction
How Paul Ryan's flawed budget plan has improved the debate over our fiscal future.
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Tech Revolutionaries
The Arab Revolt shows that Google's and Twitter's corporate values are better than Facebook's.
