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The Wendy Davis Scouting Report
AP Images/Nick WassAP Images/Nick Wass The 2014 political season is just beginning to ramp up, and, for fans and the professionals, it’s time to start gauging which races to watch—and guessing which...
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Coverage of 2012 Campaign Disappointingly Unbiased
Fox News shows its blatant pro-Obama bias.Everybody thinks the media are biased against their side, and conservatives are particularly likely to believe it. They themselves would say "That's because...
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Double Down to Dullsville
I suppose we should be pleased that every couple of months, a book , that old-fashioned communication form in which ideas are related at considerable length, is able to captivate official Washington...
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"Double Down" Was Written for Morning Joe—Not Posterity
AP Images/J. Scott ApplewhiteThe week Game Change was published in early 2010 coincided with my own version of journalistic martyrdom —watching my brain cells peel off like dandruff from enduring 60...
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Conservative Billionaires Selflessly Provide Economic Stimulus
Don't worry - they still have plenty left.It's sometimes said that you can stimulate the economy by burying a bunch of money, then paying people to go dig it up. It may not be all that productive or...
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New Documentary Threatens to Make You Like Mitt Romney
A scene from the Netflix documentary "Mitt."During the 2012 campaign, I, like every liberal writer whose job it is to comment on politics every day, wrote many unkind things about Mitt Romney. Much of...
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Campaigns and the Human Condition
An image from "Mitt," taken at the moment when Mitt Romney realized he had lost the 2012 election.Over the weekend I watched the Netflix documentary "Mitt," and true to its billing, it humanized Mitt...
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The Brothers Koch: Family Drama and Disdain for Democracy
AP Photo/Damian DovarganesNot long ago, a pal of mine asked whether I’d heard the latest scoop about Charles and David Koch, the right-wing billionaires currently overseeing capitalism’s final solution...
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Why the Fight Over Executive Authority Will Define the Rest of Barack Obama's...
Official White House Photo by Pete SouzaIt's axiomatic to the point of cliché that in their second terms, presidents turn their attention to foreign affairs, where they have latitude to do what they...
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Welcome to Cleveland, GOP! Now Let Me Tell You Where to Go
Shaun MalinowskiYou’ll be forgiven if, what with all the prodigal-son- pardoning that Cleveland was doing at the end of last week, you’ve already forgotten that the city also locked down the 2016...
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The Money Behind Big Oil's Win On Atlantic Drilling
AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, FileThis article originally appeared on Facing South , the website published by the Institute for Southern Studies. In a controversial move, on July 18, the Obama...
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A Question of Character: Craig Shirley's Scurrilous Attack on Liberal...
(craigshirley.com)In a recent article about attacks on the character of historian Rick Perlstein, the New York Times dropped the ball of responsible journalism by giving equal weight to the claims of...
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Sex, Lies and the Secret Service
MSNBCPaul Waldman talks with MSNBC's Chris Hayes about the likelihood that someone either in or close to the Secret Service leaked the story of a White House volunteer's alleged dalliance with a sex...
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Biggest Midterm Winner Wasn't on the Ballot: Chris Christie
(AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)On Tuesday, Republicans won big in races for offices at all levels of government. But the biggest winner of all is a politician who wasn’t even on the ballot: New Jersey governor...
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Spare a Thought For Those Condemned to Defend Donald Trump
AP Photo/J. Scott ApplewhiteThere's a perfectly logical reason why any Republican would decide that getting behind Donald Trump is the least bad option they face. If you genuinely care about...
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