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“Ignoring The Reality To Pursue The Myth”: “Sanctuary Cities” And Violent...
If you’ve been watching the rhetorical (Dondald Trump) and even legislative (the U.S. Congress) Republican effort to exploit the killing of Kathryn Steinle on a San Francisco pier by a recidivist...
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“The Republican Party Can’t Escape Its Past”: Trapped At The Center Of A...
A lot can happen through three hours of political debate, enough to carry multiple headlines and just as many different analytical perspectives. Even before the main-stage debate Thursday night, a...
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“Shoulda Listened, GOPers”: You Were Warned The Party Needed To Embrace...
I don’t know if Greg Sargent has been saving his told-you-so for a particularly propitious moment. Probably not, since he sincerely wanted Republicans to do the right thing, and held out hope for it...
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“Republicans Still Pandering To Voters’ Worst Instincts”: Appealing To The...
Not so long ago, leaders of a chastened Republican Party issued a report urging a new way forward for a GOP spurned by voters of color. Following Mitt Romney’s unfortunate language about...
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“When Representation Fails, Demagogues Thrive”: How America’s Political And...
“Trump talks about Mexicans the way anti-Semites talk about Jews.” There’s a lot of truth in that Christopher Hayes tweet from the night of the first Republican debate. Ominous (and unsubstantiated)...
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“Polarized Congress Will Ignore Pope’s Plea”: We Are Living Through A Deeply...
In a more generous political climate, an adorable little girl who gave a letter and a hug to Pope Francis could make a difference. In an era with a more pragmatic Congress and a less Balkanized...
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“Comprehensive Immigration Reform”: Rubio’s ‘Biggest Weakness’ Goes...
As the race for the Republicans’ presidential nomination started to take shape, there were plenty of reasons to be skeptical of Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) chances. For example, he’s a career...
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“Trump’s ‘Operation Wetback’ Delusion”: No, Donald, Most Americans Want...
I don’t know about you, but I think it says something interesting that in the eight presidential campaigns I’ve covered and written about, this is the first time I’ve seen the need to weave The Daily...
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“Let Us Help With You With That Non-Problem”: GOP Comes Up With A Non-Problem...
It looks like Mitt Romney’s self-deportation immigration reform plan is working out better than anyone expected. More Mexican immigrants have returned to Mexico from the U.S. than have migrated here...
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“The Rubio-Schumer Gang Of Eight Bill”: How Ted Cruz Will Try To Destroy...
Imagine you’re Ted Cruz. Things are proceeding according to plan — you’re in second place nationwide and ahead in some polls in Iowa, you’re consolidating the support of evangelicals, most of your...
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Questions About Why Rubio Is So Soft On Immigrants”: The Irony In Marco Rubio...
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are for now the only real candidates with a chance to become the Republican nominee for president (granting that Donald Trump, whatever his chances, is an utterly unreal...
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“The GOP’s Dead End On Immigration”: GOP Candidate Don’t Know The Issues,...
The debate over immigration has become a huge problem for the GOP. Donald Trump started things off earlier this year when he promised mass deportations for those who had entered the country illegally,...
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“Graham Snubs Rubio Over Immigration ‘Cut and Run’”: His Snub Was Personal....
Just a few weeks after ditching the presidential race, Lindsey Graham tried to shake it up Friday by snubbing a close Senate colleague. The South Carolina senator and Sunday show perma-guest endorsed...
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“Rubio Recycles Romney’s Risible Rubbish”: Shockingly “Uninformed” About...
Marco Rubio used to consider immigration his signature issue. When that didn’t turn out well, the Florida senator decided national security would be his new area of expertise. Maybe he should keep...
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“Ted Cruz’s ‘Flat Out Lie’ On Immigration”: How Do You Say Hypocrite In...
For Latino Republicans who have known Ted Cruz over the last 15 years, the candidate stumping across the country on an anti-immigration platform is not the rising talent they once worked with on the...
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“Proved Spectacularly Wrong”: The GOP’s ‘2012 Autopsy Report’ Is Now...
It’s hard to think of an official political-party document more thoroughly repudiated by its intended audience than the March 2013 “Growth & Opportunity Project” of the Republican National...
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“Hardly Unprecedented”: On Immigration, Law Is On Obama’s Side
The legal controversy surrounding the Obama administration’s immigration enforcement policies will soon come to a head when the Supreme Court justices hear the case United States v. Texas on Monday....
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“The Problem With Donald Trump’s Fact-Free ‘Instincts'”: Lack Of Basic...
Donald Trump has a handful of core issues that help define his political identity. Indeed, one need not be a political news junkie to be able to rattle off the list: the New York Republican wants to...
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“Platitudes And Rhetorical Nonsense”: How Trump Has Managed To Dumb Down The...
New evidence sugggests Donald Trump’s ignorant and devisive rhetoric on immigration parallels the political discourse on Twitter, suggesting that the bloviating of the presumptive GOP presidential...
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