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“Tom Cotton’s Whopper”: A Circular...
I’ve generally operated under the assumption that we’re living in an age where lies, even the most obvious and outrageous of them, need to be challenged or they become tomorrow’s “facts.” So I’m glad...
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“The Right’s Scary Ebola Lesson”: How Anti-Government Mania Is Harming America
If not for serial budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health, we would probably have an Ebola vaccine and we would certainly have better treatment, NIH director Dr. Francis Collins tells the...
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“Straight To ‘Hell No'”: The Rapid Radicalization Of The Republican Party By...
This is a blog, not a history lesson. But I can’t resist trying to make some sense of the current Republican desire for self-immolation. Where has this so-called “Hell No Caucus” come from? Whether it...
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“It’s Always 1938″: The Right’s Lazy, “Ridiculous Neville Chamberlain Obsession”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) turned to a familiar comparison to condemn international nuclear talks yesterday. “I believe we are hearing echoes of history,” the senator said. “I believe we are at a moment...
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“The Beating Heart Of The Republican Party”: Right-Wing Extremism; Not Just...
On Sunday, it will be 20 years since the morning a bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and took 168 human lives. Nineteen of those lives belonged to children. Maybe it...
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“Bad For The Party, Bad For The Country”: The GOP’s Clamorous,...
Another day, another trio of new candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. A brain surgeon with no particular feel for politics. A business executive who lost the only election she ever...
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“Don’t Cry For John Boehner”: An Old King Who Couldn’t Keep Up With The...
Don’t cry for John Boehner, Washington. Oh, no, the Ohioan doesn’t want to stay another day in the Capitol. The House speaker, who announced his resignation on Friday, had brought Pope Francis to...
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“On Behalf Of The Inner Circle”: Earning The Contempt Of The Foreign Policy...
Whenever I see an article by James Poulos, I have to admit that I approach it with a certain amount of disgust. That’s because, back in 2012 he wrote what I consider to be the most misogynist column...
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