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Catholic hospitals net billions in government aid. They should not be able to deny their employees contraceptive coverage.

Sheldon Adelson

How can it be that the “richest Jew in the world” can buy the foreign policy of a major party’s presidential contender and “the Jews” have somehow escaped the blame?

Anti-gay marriage proponents should think twice before asking the US Supreme Court to take this case.

Pinkwashing

The controversy provided a long-overdue spotlight on the difference between feminism as a brand and feminism as a political movement.

How can it be that a party with nearly limitless financial resources has such paltry human resources?

The GOP's New Southern Strategy

Republicans are using the redistricting process to undermine minority voting power and ensure their party's dominance.

Newt Gingrich

No single person bears more responsibility for how much Americans hate Congress than Newt Gingrich. Here’s what he did to it.

Will the state's Republicans respond more to Gingrich's social conservative act, or Romney's businessman persona?

The populism of the right is coalescing around the race-bating extremism of Newt Gingrich—and Citizens United is greasing the wheels.

Blogs

Conservative lawmakers aren't the only facing a demographic crisis: The GOP's favorite network has also suffered a significant loss of trust among its core conservative audience.

February 7, 2013

Republican strategists, here's your gameplan. 

February 5, 2013

The latest proposal being floated in Pennsylvania for redistributing electoral votes has the same goal as the last plan: allowing a Republican loser to "win" the presidency.

February 5, 2013

Be very, very careful about the proliferating arguments that demographics show that Republicans are on their way out for good.

February 4, 2013

Republicans lose it when challenged on their make-believe consensus.

February 4, 2013

Perhaps it’s time to revise the old saw that the ivory tower breeds liberals, and the “real world” makes them conservative.

January 30, 2013

Since House Republicans from gerrymandered districts need only worry about pandering to their hardcore base, real change probably won’t happen anytime soon.

January 29, 2013

As the Republican party comes to terms with its own obsolescence, the forward-thinking coalition that elected Barack Obama must tackle economic inequality.

January 29, 2013

The Senator who interrogated Hillary Clinton thinks we’re living in an Atlas Shrugged moment, and that he’s a lot like one of Rand’s “heroes.”

January 29, 2013

A group of libertarian investors wants to turn Detroit’s Belle Isle into a private city-state with its own laws, customs and currency.

January 28, 2013
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