In the state’s Senate primary, an establishment progressive faces a more progressive outsider. Sound familiar?
Election 2016
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Chaotic Primaries Signal Voting Trouble Ahead
American elections are still plagued by budget shortfalls, bad planning, restrictive state laws, and a federal agency that makes voting harder, not easier—a recipe for disaster on Election Day.
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Is Pope Francis a Bernie Bro?
The Vatican’s invitation to Sanders isn’t the first time a papal confidante undermined a woman candidate in a U.S. presidential race.
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The Strange Silence about Sanders’s Tax Proposals
Bernie Sanders has proposed tax increases that ought to give Democrats pause, but hardly anyone is talking about them.
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Does Wisconsin’s Right-to-Work Law Expose a Fatal Flaw?
Labor advocates may have found a legal strategy for combating the anti-union laws, and eyes turn to the New York primary.Â
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Sanders, Trump, and the Hassles of Regular People
It’s hardly a surprise that the elite doesn’t empathize with the struggles of ordinary people—because the elite doesn’t experience them.
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Republicans Haven’t Stopped Digging Their Hole with Latino Voters
Remember the Etch A Sketch? It’s going to be awfully hard to shake up in the fall.
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The Climate Counts
Environmental concerns—bolstered by more precinct walkers and political spending—loom large in this year’s election.
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“The Full Spectrum of the Republican Party”
In his victory speech Tuesday night after winning the Wisconsin primary, Senator Ted Cruz pointed to his endorsements from former GOP presidential candidates former Texas Governor Rick Perry, Senator Lindsey Graham, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, as proof that he has the “full spectrum of the Republican Party […]
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The GOP’s Primary Lesson: Be Careful What You Wish For
The Republican Party and movement conservatives are victims of their own success, argues E.J. Dionne in his new book.
