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Dinesh D'Souza became a right-wing campus radical at Dartmouth in the late Carter years. His motives should be recognizable to former campus radicals of the other variety.

Right-wing foundation seeks eligible young women for meaningful,
long-term relationship.

When Len Bias died of a cocaine overdose back in 1986 Tip O'Neill and
Ronald Reagan raced each other to show the world who could punish the
poor quickest and hardest.

Thanks to corporate scandals, conservatives are finally on the
defensive.

They want not just a US invasion of Iraq but "total war" against Arab
regimes.

Although former Vice President Quayle's legacy may not be one for the
history books, he will certainly be remembered for the day he took on
television's Murphy Brown.

Blogs

Karl Rove was at war with grassroots conservatives a few months ago. Now he’s defending them. Why?

May 17, 2013

How do you travel from a tax-exempt “non-political” Tea Party rally to a political one? You walk across a park.

May 16, 2013

The story Washington should be talking about is how the Citizens United decision unleashed a flood of secret spending in US elections.

May 14, 2013

A fundraising letter obtained by The Nation lays out right-wing efforts in Pennsylvania to go after labor unions.

April 23, 2013

On Tax Day, let's consider a right-wing Zombie Idea that won't die despite even being debunked in National Review: that "tax cuts pay for themselves."

April 15, 2013

As predictable as the rising and setting sun, conservative politicians attack basic science with all the maturity of ten-year-old boys.

April 12, 2013

Who needs a majority—or democracy—when you just know that your cause is the most righteous?

April 8, 2013

The hard-right wing exerts an oversized influence on our gridlocked Congress, thanks in part to a Beltway media enamored of them.

April 5, 2013

A new book argues that the media failed to grasp the frightening extremism of the anti-immigrant border patrols of a few years ago—and wraps it in a thrilling true-crime tale.

April 3, 2013

Ultimately, whether a party cements its gains depends not on demographics but performance.

April 1, 2013
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