1. midterm madness
    Florida Gubernatorial Debate Delayed Due to FanIn one of the weirdest and most Floridian moments in debate history.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  2. early and awkward
    Bishop Asks Voters to Write In Dead CatholicsAs always, it’s about abortion.
    By Katie Zavadski
  3. islamic state watch
    U.S. Settles for ‘Kind of Bleh’ Name in Ongoing Operation Against ISISInherent Resolve, which had already been rejected by the Pentagon.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  4. the national interest
    Debt Scolds Sorry-Not-Sorry for Making the Recession WorseHistorical revisionism time.
    By Jonathan Chait
  5. the national interest
    Paul Ryan: Yes, I Am a NutGlad you asked.
    By Jonathan Chait
  7. early and often
    Grimes-McConnell Debate Not Quite a Game-ChangerThe Democratic challenger got a bit looser, but ultimately stuck to her script.
    By Chris Smith
  8. Liberals Get Illiberal on Campus Rape [Updated]You’re either for us or you’re for the rapists.
    By Jonathan Chait
  9. politics
    Both Democrats and Republicans Are Trying to Politicize EbolaThough it’s not clear either side is at fault.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  10. the national interest
    Obama Environmental Plan Tainted by Association With EnvironmentalistsA modern Washington scandal.
    By Jonathan Chait
  11. kids today
    Memo to the White House: Here’s How You Use Emoji :smile:
    By Katie Zavadski and Jessica Roy
  12. the national circus
    Frank Rich on the National Circus: The GOP’s Inane Attack on ‘President Ebola’Conservatives are stoking Ebola hysteria for pure political gain.
    By Frank Rich
  13. the national interest
    Football and Moral Panic, a Case StudyARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL in-depth statistical disputes?
    By Jonathan Chait
  14. kids today
    White House Knows Kids Hate Words, Plans Emoji-Based Campaign Discussing “capped [graduation hat] loan payments” is all the rage with millennials.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  15. scandals
    White House Accused of Colombia Scandal Cover-UpThough members of the Secret Service and military were fired for the same behavior.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  16. the national interest
    Debt Scolds: Pay No Attention to the Falling Deficit!Extremely wrong people with extremely short memories.
    By Jonathan Chait
  17. equal rites
    Gay Marriage Blocked, Just for the Moment, in Idaho and NevadaJustice Anthony Kennedy granted a temporary stay at the last minute.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  18. equal rites
    New Gay-Marriage Decision Has a Perfect FootnoteOn sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  19. the national interest
    Washington Bipartisanship Nostalgia Is EternalThe centrist fantasy that facts cannot kill.
    By Jonathan Chait
  20. ebola
    Obama Says U.S. Will Beef Up Airport Ebola ScreeningsBut there won’t be a flight ban.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  21. the national interest
    Why Rush Limbaugh Can’t Stop Talking About SlaveryHe’s like Ta-Nehisi Coates, except right wing instead of left wing, and really dumb instead of really smart.
    By Jonathan Chait
  22. equal rites
    Supreme Court Gives Gay Marriage Another Big WinBy declining to take seven different appeal cases.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  23. the national interest
    California’s Radical College-Sex-Law ExperimentThe dangers of “affirmative consent.”
    By Jonathan Chait
  24. De Blasio Adviser Did Not Disclose Ex-Con BFChirlane McCray’s chief of staff reportedly failed to disclose her partner’s criminal convictions.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  25. the national interest
    WSJ Picks Terrible Day to Call for BushonomicsJobs day was right there on the calendar.
    By Jonathan Chait
  26. security breaches
    Someone Pretending to Be a Congressman Just Strolled Backstage With the ObamasMore stories of Secret Service mistakes continue to creep out.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  27. the national interest
    Is Republican Climate-Science Denialism a Mental Block?A second opinion.
    By Jonathan Chait
  28. GOP Politicians’ Scariest Ebola WarningsDespite what the CDC says, you might want to start panicking.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  29. Tech Billionaire Larry Ellison to Host Fund-raiser for Ayn Rand Fever DreamIt will cost $1,500 a person.
    By Jessica Roy
  30. early and awkward
    Hillary Clinton Wished Al Sharpton a Happy Birthday; He Alerted the PressBy sending out a press release about the call.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  31. comings and goings
    Secret Service Director Resigns Over Terrible Protection of the PresidentJulia Pierson had one job …
    By Joe Coscarelli
  32. the national interest
    Maybe the Boston Herald Cartoonist’s Dumb Watermelon Joke Was Just a MistakeScratch one item off the list of things you’re outraged about today.
    By Jonathan Chait
  33. the national interest
    Mitt Romney Figures Out How Secret Recordings WorkThey catch you saying things you believe but would never admit publicly.
    By Jonathan Chait
  34. security breaches
    Secret Service: White House Now Has Auto-LockJulia Pierson is sorry about that breach.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  35. bill de blasio’s new york
    Mayor de Blasio Expanding Living Wage Law With Executive OrderUp to $13.13 an hour for some workers.
    By Katie Zavadski
  36. international intrigue
    What’s Happening in Hong Kong? Protest ExplainerExcessive force by police has helped a student sit-in explode.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  37. the national interest
    Tom Cotton Is Now the Perfect RepublicanArkansas once again provides a glimpse of a party’s future.
    By Jonathan Chait
  38. international intrigue
    Governor Cuomo Is Spending the Weekend in AfghanistanAlong with some other governors. 
    By Caroline Bankoff
  39. bill de blasio’s new york
    Mayor De Blasio Stands by Aide, Despite Boyfriend’s Sketchy Past Chirlane McCray’s chief-of-staff, Rachel Noerdlinger, is in a longtime relationship with a convicted felon. 
    By Caroline Bankoff
  40. the clintons
    Chelsea Clinton’s Baby Is Here, and She Didn’t Name It Liam [Updated]Clinton and husband Marc Mezvinsky went with Charlotte.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  41. islamic state watch
    Britain Agrees to Start Bombing ISIS As WellThe campaign could take “not months but years,” David Cameron warned.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  42. the national interest
    Today in ‘Paul Krugman Is Definitely Not Arguing With David Brooks’The world’s most awkward debate continues.
    By Jonathan Chait
  43. comings and goings
    Eric Holder Is Just About Done Being Attorney GeneralHe’ll step down as soon as a successor is in place.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  44. the national circus
    Frank Rich on the National Circus: Obama Has Gotten Us Into a QuagmireThe ISIS campaign is a “dumb war.”
    By Frank Rich
  45. the national interest
    How a Gawker Rant Portended the End of Freedom in AmericaFirst they came for the cell-phone hurlers.
    By Jonathan Chait
  46. islamic state watch
    U.S. Continues to Bomb ISIS Ahead of Obama’s Case to the U.N.More air strikes overnight in Syria and Iraq.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  47. the national interest
    Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Reason Not to Retire Makes No SenseShe may understand the law, but she doesn’t understand the Senate.
    By Jonathan Chait
  48. obama’s revenge
    Dinesh D’Souza Avoids Jailtime Despite Letter From Estranged Wife Claiming AbuseHe’ll spend eight months in a “community confinement center” for campaign-finance fraud.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  49. the national interest
    Paul Ryan Declares War Against MathIt has long been known to harbor a liberal bias.
    By Jonathan Chait
  50. political ads
    Cheating Congressman Declares He’s Blessed to Have a ‘Wonderful Christian Wife’In 2014’s skeeziest political ad.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  51. the national interest
    Saul Alinsky Secretly Controls Hillary Clinton, TooThe attack that worked so well against Obama in 2008 that Republicans may use it against Hillary Clinton.
    By Jonathan Chait
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