1. campaign ads
    Senate Candidate’s Campaign Ad Features Shot of James Foley Execution Video“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it,” says the New Mexico Republican.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  2. the national interest
    Paul Ryan’s List of 6 Favorite Books Has One Huge OmissionWorld’s Most Honest Man suffers strange memory loss.
    By Jonathan Chait
  3. encounter
    Zephyr Teachout on Reddit, Wanting to Be Governor, and Her Running Mate, Tim Wu“I’m a real underdog, but I can still see a path to victory.”
    By Joe Coscarelli
  4. the national interest
    Rand Paul Offers Free Eye Exam With DeportationTrust him, he’s a doctor.
    By Jonathan Chait
  5. the national interest
    Iraq: Boy, That Escalated QuicklyA mountain rescue is turning into something more like a war.
    By Jonathan Chait
  7. stuck in the mittle
    Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan Want Each Other to Run for President in 2016They’ve stumbled on an adorable, noncommittal response!
    By Margaret Hartmann
  8. the national interest
    How Obamacare Violates the Conservative Cleanliness FetishA strange, revealing slip of the tongue.
    By Jonathan Chait
  9. Why Beheading Videos Are Back With ISIS, and Why They Went AwayJames Foley is the first American executed this way since the mid-aughts.
    By Katie Zavadski
  10. the national interest
    Bill Kristol Demands War, Has Not Been Informed It’s Already HappeningForeign-policy strategists can’t be expected to know everything.
    By Jonathan Chait
  11. the national interest
    ‘Youngsters Love Rand Paul’ Is a Fake TrendStop trying to make Rand Paul happen.
    By Jonathan Chait
  12. the national interest
    Paul Ryan: I’m Keeping Tax Cuts for the RichA blunt stand against Republican modernizers.
    By Jonathan Chait
  13. the national interest
    The Republican Party’s Geriatric TrapSocialism for the old, capitalism for the poor.
    By Jonathan Chait
  14. politics
    Here’s Rick Perry’s Mug ShotThe Texas governor turned himself in at the Travis County Courthouse on Tuesday.
    By Jessica Roy
  15. The Summer of 2014 and the Return of the Politics of RacismA shift in the attention of the American left, away from economic inequality.
    By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
  16. the national interest
    Paul Ryan Is Sorry the Takers Feel Offended By His Word ChoiceHe will stop calling them that.
    By Jonathan Chait
  17. 2016
    It’s Starting to Look Like Hillary Clinton Is Running for President, Part XXVIShe’s attending the annual Iowa steak fry.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  18. the national interest
    No, the Founders Were Not Tea PartiersA 200-year-old lie.
    By Jonathan Chait
  19. Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Really Have a Mitt Romney ProblemHillary Clinton: heartless, out-of-touch, Gulfstream-demanding one percenter?
    By Annie Lowrey
  20. politics
    President Obama Is Taking a Little Break From His Vacation For “unspecified” meetings in Washington. 
    By Caroline Bankoff
  21. messing with texas
    Rick Perry Responds to Indictment David Axelrod and Alan Dershowitz have both questioned the charges against the Texas governor. 
    By Caroline Bankoff
  22. the national interest
    This Indictment of Rick Perry Is Unbelievably RidiculousI have never seen anything so frivolous in my (admittedly nonexistent) legal career.
    By Jonathan Chait
  23. the national interest
    Joe Scarborough, Mike Allen Form Journalistic Axis of EvilYoung punk reporters don’t obey nothing these days.
    By Jonathan Chait
  24. bill de blasio’s new york
    The City Paid for de Blasio’s Chauffeured Mercedes in Italy Even the People’s Mayor gets some perks.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  25. hillary watch
    The Meaning of Hillary’s Promise to ‘Hug It Out’As Ari Gold taught us, the point is to show the world that you are aggressively getting along.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  26. talking heads
    NBC Puts David Gregory Out of His MiseryThe network has reportedly made its final decision.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  27. ferguson
    Obama Delivers a Very Careful Statement About Ferguson“I’d like us all to take a step back and think about how we’re going to move forward.”
    By Joe Coscarelli
  28. the national interest
    The Nation’s Stephen F. Cohen Denies Existence of UkraineWorld’s craziest Russia analyst? Or world’s worst Risk player?
    By Jonathan Chait
  29. the national interest
    Police Frisking Finally Goes Too Far for Matt DrudgeThe latest liberal police-state outrage: golfer profiling.
    By Jonathan Chait
  30. the national circus
    Frank Rich on the National Circus: Iraq Air Strikes, American ApathyThe U.S. public seems scarcely to have noticed our latest foreign policy emergency.
    By Frank Rich
  31. politics
    Cuomo Kicks Off Israel Tour With Press Conference“We want to stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel.”
    By Jessica Roy
  32. early and awkward
    NRCC Creates Fake News Sites to Attack DemocratsTheir haters keep them relevant.
    By Jessica Roy
  33. the national interest
    How Libertarians Snookered The New York Times MagazineAnatomy of a journalistic train wreck.
    By Jonathan Chait
  34. early and awkward
    The Conservative Choice for Congress Is This Giant Horse DickArizona Republican congressional hopeful Gary Kiehne is a real American.
    By Jessica Roy
  35. the national interest
    Have House Republicans Extended the Economic Recovery Into 2016?When economic sabotage backfires.
    By Jonathan Chait
  36. early and awkward
    Obama Reportedly Called Criticism of His Syria Policy ‘Horseshit’He was talking to a senator, not Hillary.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  37. the national interest
    National Review Flips ‘Days Since Last Racist Rant’ Sign Back to 0What’s a good comparison for this black kid? How about a monkey? Okay, cool.
    By Jonathan Chait
  38. the national interest
    Obama’s Immigration Plan Should Scare Liberals, TooCrossing a Rubicon of presidential authority.
    By Jonathan Chait
  39. The Puzzling Metaphysics of John R. MacArthur’s Internet HateQuestions for America’s foremost internet skeptic.
    By Jonathan Chait
  40. war in iraq
    The U.S. Is Arming Kurdish Forces in Iraq While Waiting for a New GovernmentThe Pentagon won’t say where the weapons are coming from.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  41. hillary watch
    Hillary Clinton Criticizes Obama’s ‘Don’t Do Stupid Stuff’ Foreign Policy And “failure” to arm the moderate Syrian rebels.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  42. the national interest
    National Review Still Angry Obama Won’t Aid YazidiThe greatest victims of this tragedy: columnists with unfortunate deadlines.
    By Jonathan Chait
  43. the national interest
    Is Zionism a Feeling, or an Idea?A response to an inadvertently revealing New York Times op-ed.
    By Jonathan Chait
  44. early and awkward
    Plagiarizing Senator John Walsh Drops OutHe’s no longer running in November. 
    By Joe Coscarelli
  45. No, America Is Not Turning LibertarianPut down that copy of Atlas Shrugged and slowly back away.
    By Jonathan Chait
  46. bill de blasio’s new york
    Dante and Chiara de Blasio Landed City Hall InternshipsNo summer slacking allowed for the mayor’s kids.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  47. The Heat Is on for Cuomo — But Also for BhararaThe governor is enduring political embarrassment at a bad time. But the US Attorney has set up some high expectations.
    By Chris Smith
  48. the national circus
    Frank Rich: Echoes of Watergate Summer A familiar bleakness has settled on Washington.
    By Frank Rich
  49. inversion aversion
    Walgreens Decides Not to Anger PresidentGood call!
    By Kevin Roose
  50. spy games
    The U.S. Government Has a New Edward Snowden on Its HandsGlenn Greenwald’s the Intercept has a national security source with access to classified documents.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  51. the national interest
    Rand Paul Flees in Terror From Mexican ImmigrantRand Paul plus Steve King plus Dreamer equals hilarity.
    By Jonathan Chait
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