France’s Republican Party has chosen a new leader, Laurent Wauquiez, who did not hesitate to divide the party in order to conquer it. Now, having expelled his erstwhile comrades of the center-right, he has no alternative but to try to poach voters from the extremist Front National.
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Simplifying the Tax Code, or Simply Trickle-Down Economics?
The Senate’s tax bill drives up the deficit, which could enable the same tax-cutting Republicans to inflict drastic cuts to the social safety net.
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Roy Moore Proves the Moral Bankruptcy of the Religious Right
If there were any doubt that leaders such as Tony Perkins and Sandy Rios are more about the politics than Christian love, their respective silence on or defense of Moore lays that doubt to rest.
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Your Guide to Where Republicans Stand on Roy Moore
It all depends on which constituency they serve.
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Could Alabama Be Next?
Doug Jones’s uphill battle against Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race
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The Top-Sideways Revolt of the Anti-Trump Republicans
Some eminent Republicans may have repudiated Trump, but absent audible rumblings from the GOP base, they’re not likely to add to their ranks.
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In Flake, Bannon Claims Another Victim
The white nationalist virus is infecting major segments of the U.S. body politic and the institutions that maintain democracy.
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How Republicans Imperil Their Own Tax Cuts
Their House and Senate budget resolutions are miles apart—which endangers reconciliation, which endangers tax cuts, which endangers what’s left of the GOP agenda.
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National Police Union Mum on Brutality Concerns
The Fraternal Order of Police, the country’s largest and most powerful police union, has had little to say about recent cases of police brutality or white supremacist violence.
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The Allure of the Far Right Demands Immediate Action
To dismiss the attraction of Bannon’s dystopian nationalism is folly.
