Marco Rubio is the latest to evade the question of whether he ever smoked pot.
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Gray Matter: ‘Bush’s Brain’ Short-Circuits
Isn’t it about time we stopped considering Karl Rove a political genius?
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Dally Meme: Delusion and Moxie, Rove and Jindal
Politics may not be for the faint of heart, but it’s often for the deluded of mind. Today’s meme is about those who are deluding either themselves or others, and will inevitably have their hopes dashed by cruel reality. We start with Karl Rove, who went on Fox News Sunday and said that despite all […]
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Rebels Without a Cause
In a Republican primary, everybody has to pretend they just want to fight the power, even more so than being a good Republican partisan.
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Daily Meme: Strange Doin’s in Dixie
No subject tends to confound political pundits-or national Democrats and liberals in general-quite like Southern politics. And if you don’t believe it, take a gander at the oft-cited 2006 manual for Democratic Dixie-bashing, Tom Schaller’s Whistling Past Dixie, which bizarrely recommended that the party abandon the nation’s largest and fastest-growing region (not to mention its […]
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Sorry, Right-Wing Media, Unionization Is Good for Liberal Publications
Conservative outlets are saying organizing workers “destroys diversity,” but that’s simply not true.
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Who Do You Hate?
Some politicians merely annoy us, while others we truly despise. What produces the difference?
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Fast Food, Slow Movement
The movement to raise the minimum wage has been built slowly, and that could be to its great advantage.
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Daily Meme: The Ugliness of Being a Woman Boss
Yesterday, the New York Times fired its executive editor, Jill Abramson, the first woman to lead the paper in its 163 years of publication. When a woman finally reaches this pinnacle-perhaps the single most important position in journalism in America, if not the world-then gets shown the door after just two and a half years, […]
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Liberal Republicans—They’re Alive!
The fractures in the GOP aren’t just about tactics, they’re also about issues.
