Flickr/Rob Chandanais The emphatically old-timey presidential candidacy of Mike Huckabee has spurred an interesting discussion among some liberal commentators about the status of America’s culture war, beginning with this piece by Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig which all but declared the culture war over, leading to thoughtful responses from Ed Kilgore and Heather Digby Parton. When you […]
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Republicans Are Thoroughly Freaked Out by Clinton’s Immigration Move, but Should They Be?
View image | gettyimages.com While the substance of what Hillary Clinton actually proposed to do in her immigration event on Tuesday may be a bit less than it first appeared (see my colleague Greg Sargent for more on that), there was one thing she said that was absolutely clear: Whatever Republicans might try to convince […]
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Photo of the Day, Ordinary Bloke Edition
View image | gettyimages.com That’s British prime minister David Cameron, helping out with some bricklaying ahead of tomorrow’s election, like a regular chap would do. Man of the people and all that, wot wot.
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Don’t Sweat the Iowans, Jeb
View image | gettyimages.com So Quinnipiac has a new poll out showing Jeb Bush with ongoing problems among Republicans in Iowa, but I don’t think he should be worried. I’ll let Ed Kilgore explain: What do the internals say about Jeb Bush’s basic standing among Iowa Republicans? They really don’t much like him, though not […]
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Why Hillary Clinton Can Move Left on Immigration
View image | gettyimages.com Back in 2008, I tried (without much success) to convince everyone that John McCain’s reputation as a “maverick” was built on a fundamental misconception. It isn’t that he didn’t sometimes go against the prevailing Republican position on a given issue, because he did, even if those occasions were actually quite rare. […]
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Photo of the Day, Across the Pond Edition
View image | gettyimages.com I thought of posting a photo of Mike Huckabee announcing his presidential candidacy, but this one is just so much more fun. Britons go to the polls this week, and that’s George Osborne of the Conservative Party, who is currently Chancellor of the Exchequer, visiting with some hard-working constituents to tell […]
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Some More Radical Ideas for Hillary Clinton
If the Democratic frontrunner wants to show that she’s a fighter, let her pick some good fights.
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The Ridiculous Lure of the Amateur Politician
View image | gettyimages.com All the news stories about yesterday’s entrants into the Republican presidential field, Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson, mention they are extremely unlikely to win. Yet the fact that they decided to run at all, and that many in their party will consider them carefully and give them money and attention, testifies […]
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Bernie Sanders’s Presidential Bid Represents a Long Tradition of American Socialism
Long deployed by the right as an epithet, this form of left-wing populism is as American as apple pie.
