A 50-state strategy wouldn’t work in the ’90s and it wouldn’t work now.Â
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Does the Iowa Caucus Still Matter?
Why the Ames Straw Poll is not the bellwether it once was.Â
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Scott Walker’s Long Crusade
Walker’s road to the White House has been years in the making.Â
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How Big Money Lost in Philly’s Mayoral Race
Support from unions and public-education advocates won Jim Kenney the primary election, despite $7 million in outside spending for his opponent.
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Now It’s Time For Hillary Clinton to Answer Some Questions About the Iraq War
View image | gettyimages.com Jeb Bush has now been bludgeoned into submission on Iraq, a development that is remarkable when you step back and look at how quickly the Republican consensus on that topic has changed. Two weeks ago you wouldn’t have predicted that most of the Republicans would now say the war should never […]
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The Myth of ‘Faulty Intelligence’
View image | gettyimages.com The Iraq War, both how it began and how it proceeded, is now an active topic in the 2016 presidential campaign, which I think is a highly salutary development. But it does mean that we need to be on guard for the kind of distortions, misleading statements, and outright lies that […]
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Women as the Loyal Opposition
When the outsider battles her way in, a corrective voice is heard.
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What Really Matters in 2016
View image | gettyimages.com So over the weekend, Rick Perry reminded Republicans of what’s really at stake in this election: “Something I want you all to think about is that the next president of the United States, whoever that individual may be, could choose up to three, maybe even four members of the Supreme Court,” […]
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Should We Relitigate the Iraq War in the 2016 Campaign? You Bet We Should
The question isn’t so much whether candidates will admit what a disaster Iraq was, but what they’ve learned from the experience.
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Should We Relitigate the Iraq War in the 2016 Campaign? You Bet We Should
View image | gettyimages.com If all goes well, in the 2016 campaign we’ll be rehashing the arguments we had about the Iraq war in 2002 and 2003. You may be thinking, “Jeez, do we really have to go through that again?” But we do-in fact, we must. If we’re going to make sense of where […]
