It’s economics: Cory Booker’s Wall Street liberalism versus Bill de Blasio’s anti-corporate populism. These divisions will shape the 2016 presidential contest.
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What Have We Learned from the 2013 Elections?
The do’s and don’ts of this year’s races, featuring kittens, sodomy, and pot.
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What This Election Means, Revealed at Last
Sometimes an election is just an election.
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If You Give a Mouse a Vote
This year’s elections were all a bit anti-climatic. Let’s look at some of the craziest write-in candidates instead.
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In Shocking Development, Health Insurance Companies Still Suck
These are the last people we should take at their word, but that’s just what reporters are doing.
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Kentucky’s Health Care Rollout Humming Right Along
Two weeks ago, President Obama thanked the state’s Democratic governor for a smooth implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The state has signed up nearly 30,000 people for Medicaid under a federally funded expansion of that program and 1,000 Kentuckians a day are finding private plans under a statewide exchange.
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Bill de Blasio’s Elements of Style
The Democratic mayoral candidate has run an elegant and successful campaign. But tweaks in the general election have people wondering: How will he lead?
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Two Days until Brief Explosion of Christie Mania
Reporters are eager for him to run for president, particularly given the cast of duds currently looking at 2016.
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How Virginia Ended Up with a Stinker of a Governor’s Race
Terry McAuliffe is poised to become the next leader of the Old Dominion. How did he pull it off?
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Rand Paul: “If Dueling Were Legal…”
Frustrated by accusations that plagiarism in his speeches and book was “intentional,” Paul went on ABC this weekend to vent. He and his staff may have been “sloppy,” he said, but they were not “dishonest.” Could he legally duel them in Kentucky, Paul joked, his accusers would soon receive challenges, “if they keep it up.”