The 2016 RNC is set to showcase a deeply divided party.
Election 2016
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Sanders Activists Already Agitating in Philadelphia
The Democratic National Convention is more than a week away, but progressive organizers and Bernie Sanders enthusiasts are already staging demonstrations around town.
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Convention Cash More Controversial Than Ever
For this year’s conventions, the political parties are collecting bigger checks under more relaxed rules, even as voter anger mounts over special-interest corporate money.
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Bernie, Hillary, and the Ghost of Ernst Thalmann
In campaigning for Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders will be making sure his voters don’t suffer from the blind spot that plagued Nazi-era Communist leader Ernst Thälmann, who argued that the Social Democrats posed a greater threat than Adolf Hitler.
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Q&A: The Abortion Battle’s Next Phase
NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue reflects on how the Supreme Court’s historic ruling to reject restrictive clinic mandates will impact abortion policy and politics.
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Why 2016 Could Be a Turning Point on Guns
Could recent tragedies mark a shift in the nation’s gun control debate?
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Arizona’s Blue Horizons
With increasing Latino activism, once-Republican Arizona is becoming contested terrain, though registration still lags. Will this be the year?
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Donald Trump’s Star of David
How the GOP enables the rise of dog-whistle anti-Semitism
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Why the Democrats Need to Sink the TPP
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, coming before the party’s platform committee on Friday, is a nightmare for Hillary Clinton.
