1. dear leader
    What Kim Jong-un Said During His Trip to the ZooWe made up some things.
    By Dan Amira
  2. 2012
    Fox News Made One Hell of an Anti-Obama Ad [Updated]So fair, so balanced.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  3. the national interest
    Why Romney Decided to Stick With TrumpHe has his reasons. Sort of.
    By Jonathan Chait
  4. oopsies
    See All the Barack Obama Tweets That Were Too Hot for the WebMove over, Anthony Weiner.
    By Noreen Malone
  5. the circus
    Frank Rich on the National Circus: Mitt’s Bleach-Bottle BimboDonald Trump isn’t a politician: He’s a pure self-promotion machine that’s sucked up Mitt Romney.
    By Frank Rich
  7. early and awkward
    The Best Part of Illinois Lawmaker’s TiradeSlow motion makes everything better.
    By Dan Amira
  8. the national interest
    Republicans to Spend More Money Than GodMo’ money, fewer problems.
    By Jonathan Chait
  9. early and awkward
    Majority of Michiganders Don’t Agree That the Trees Are the Right HeightOnly 38 percent agree with Mitt Romney that they are.
    By Dan Amira
  10. first lady
    Michelle Obama on The Daily Show: Barack Is ‘Vegetables’“Is it hard to raise a kid around Joe Biden?” Stewart asked.
    By Brett Smiley
  11. trump
    Blitzer Finds Trump’s Birther Argument ‘A Little Ridiculous’The Wolf meets The Donald.
    By Jake Moore
  12. drone wars
    Obama’s Self-Serving Drone PolicyOr at least every “military-age male.”
    By Dan Amira
  13. early and often
    Cory Booker’s Communications Director Resigns After Nauseating WeekThe mayor’s Bain nausea, that is.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  14. imaginary conversations
    Donald Trump Prefers the Phrase ‘Place of Birth Movement’ NowNot birther.
    By Dan Amira
  15. scandals
    Andrew Cuomo’s Ethics Committee Chair Accused of Acting UnethicallyShe may have improperly helped her maid receive welfare.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  16. stuck in the mittle
    Donald Trump’s Birtherism Not a Dealbreaker for Mitt Romney Romney is still refusing to distance himself from the Donald’s big mouth.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  17. battleground states
    Long-Term Unemployment Benefits Ending Early in Some Battleground StatesNinety-nine weeks of unemployment is a thing of the past.
    By Brett Smiley
  18. politics
    Veterans Prefer Mitt Romney to President Obama Polls: Memorial Day edition.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  19. memorial day
    Here Is John McCain Calling a Heckler a JerkDuring a Memorial Day speech.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  20. human gaffe-machines
    Mitt Romney Once Said War Vets Should Be Taught How to Milk CowsHe later apologized for it.
    By Andre Tartar
  21. stuck in the mittle
    Rudy Giuliani Had a Little Cory Booker Moment Blame the “ego.”
    By Caroline Bankoff
  22. political groupies
    Meet Mitt Romney’s 69-Year-Old Pipe-Smoking Head GroupieHe also carries a fish-skinning knife.
    By Andre Tartar
  23. twitter president
    President Obama Not Actually a ‘Twoosh Master’Yeah, we didn’t know what that was either.
    By Andre Tartar
  24. early and awesome
    South Dakota’s Jeff Barth on His Viral Campaign Ad, Riding Animals, and Chess“I actually want to talk to my creative guy about maybe doing something in a canoe.”
    By Dan Amira
  25. the national interest
    Romney’s Big Fat Wet Kiss to Keynesian EconomicsHello, Republicans, shouldn’t you be furious? Hellooo …
    By Jonathan Chait
  26. early and awful
    Marion Barry Offers Heartfelt Apology for Using an Ethnic Slur“I misspoke: I should have said, Polish.”
    By Dan Amira
  27. the donald
    How Much Longer Can Mitt Romney and Donald Trump Stay Pals?Trump, an increasingly prominent campaign surrogate, is also still a hard-core birther.
    By Dan Amira
  28. the national interest
    Marco Rubio, FlopperFor a professional politician, political arguments make him awfully sad.
    By Jonathan Chait
  29. things that happened a long time ago
    Barack Obama Was a Stoner BullyAccording to a new book, he used to grab joints out of turn and yell “Intercepted!”
    By Dan Amira
  30. stuck in the mittle
    In Rare Glimpse of His Human Side, Romney Says He’s ‘Haunted’ by GaffesHe wrote about it in his iPad journal.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  31. early and awful
    Marion Barry Makes New Racial Gaffe While Apologizing for Old Racial GaffeThis time, it was about Polish people.
    By Dan Amira
  32. eye of newt
    Newt Gingrich Describes His Favorite Zoo AnimalsFavorite snake — go!
    By Sarah Frank
  33. goode vibrations
    Constitution Party Candidate Virgil Goode Not Worried About Being a SpoilerBut he might be one anyway!
    By Dan Amira
  34. the national interest
    Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney’s Long GameRun on the economy, claim a mandate for the Ryan plan.
    By Jonathan Chait
  35. 2012
    John Heilemann on Morning Joe: How Did Obama Lose Wall Street Donors?“Wall Street as an ATM for the president is pretty much gone.”
    By Sarah Frank
  36. crimes and misdemeanors
    N.J. Mayor Arrested for Hacking, Deleting Recall WebsiteHe was also threatening his rivals.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  37. close misreadings
    Bill Clinton Wants to Meet UpHe just e-mailed.
    By Noreen Malone
  38. photo op
    Let’s Help Mitt Romney Come Up With an Alliterative Sentence!This is an exercise he did in a Philadelphia classroom today.
    By Dan Amira
  39. the national interest
    How Veep Gets WashingtonThe exact opposite of The West Wing.
    By Jonathan Chait
  40. the national interest
    Romney Can’t Explain What He Learned in BusinessIncredibly, nobody seems to have asked him this before.
    By Jonathan Chait
  41. the death throes of birtherism
    Arizona Secretary of State Decides President Obama Was Born in Hawaii After AllNow onto Romney’s birth certificate, right?
    By Dan Amira
  42. stuck in the mittle
    Mitt Romney Promises to Have Almost No Effect on the Unemployment RateSix percent by the end of his first term is not very impressive.
    By Dan Amira
  43. 2012
    Heilemann: Obama’s Florida ProblemThe Obama campaign is not feeling confident about Florida, Heilemann says.
    By Sarah Frank
  44. early and awful
    Some People Were Impressed by Mitt Romney’s High-School CrueltyOne percent of America, to be precise.
    By Dan Amira
  45. the national circus
    Frank Rich on the National Circus: Booker, Bain, and Bipartisan NarcissismI hope no one is nauseated if I suggest that the Newark mayor was engaged in idle self-promotion.
    By Frank Rich
  46. the national interest
    Wright, Bain, and Nervous Political ElitesRepublicans and Democrats dislike the same stuff.
    By Jonathan Chait
  47. election 2012
    Primary Challenger Uses Orrin Hatch’s Old Tricks Against HimCall it karma.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  48. synonyms
    James Clyburn: Romney and Bain Involved in ‘Raping Companies’A Clyburn spokeswoman says he used the term as “a synonym for rob or plunder.”
    By Brett Smiley
  49. the national interest
    The Conservative Fantasy History of Civil RightsThe GOP’s fashionable revisionist history of how it won the white South — by supporting civil rights!
    By Jonathan Chait
  50. cory booker
    The Problem With Cory Booker’s Twitter FeedIs it really that good?
    By Noreen Malone
  51. behind the slow jam
    Jimmy Fallon Explains How the Presidential ‘Slow Jam’ Went Down“The President booked himself.”
    By Sarah Frank
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