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    Sanders Claims 2016 Primary Was Rigged, Won’t Commit to Supporting Winner“Some people say that maybe if the system was not rigged against me, I would have won the nomination.”
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Trump, McConnell, Putin, and the Triumph of the Will to PowerTrump’s supporters in government were willing to put the system at risk in order to win, and Clinton’s supporters were not.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    The 2016 Election Is a Disaster Without a MoralGreat events do not always have great causes.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Sane, Competent Official Uncovered on Trump Transition Team, and Is FiredMike Rogers fired for not being a nut, is replaced with certified nut.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Republicans Won Power, But They Didn’t Win AmericaThe Electoral College decided. The voters didn’t.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Forget Canada. Stay and Fight for American Democracy.A period of darkness in American life.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Paul Ryan Truly Supports Donald Trump, But the Media Refuses to Believe HimWhen your choirboy-image campaign is too successful.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Donald Trump Predicted His Own Defeat 4 Years AgoTrump is Nostradamus! Except he can’t remember his own predictions and he keeps changing them.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Republican Party Now So Diverse It Includes White Guys Wearing CamoTrump’s party looks like America, if you only hang out in gun shops.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Donald Trump Is Not Going to Win MichiganAs a native of the state, I am frankly offended by the notion.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Rudy Giuliani Cracks, Confesses After Merciless Interrogation by Steve DoocyYou can’t handle the truth! Okay, fine, I’ll say it.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Bridgegate Would Have Destroyed a Normal CandidacyFive reasons why it shows we’re all living in Trump’s insane world now.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Final Answer: Trump or the Republic?A political farce turned deadly serious.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    By the Way, a Trump Presidency Would Also Cook the PlanetA possibly significant footnote to the election you may have missed.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    How Donald Trump Outsmarted George WillThe conservative intellectual class is streaking alone.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Why Republican Kooks MatterTrump has proven that the freak show is not a sideshow.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Why Republicans Won’t Let Clinton Appoint a Supreme Court Justice If She WinsTomorrow’s constitutional crisis today!
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Peter Thiel and the Authoritarian-Libertarian Alliance for TrumpWhy their alliance against democracy makes sense.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    James Comey’s Blunder Could Make Donald Trump PresidentA breach of law-enforcement protocol stands to benefit a lawless candidate.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    The Republican Party Gave Its Data to a White Nationalist. What Could Go Wrong?Maybe they should have asked Jesse Pinkman how that partnership was going to work out.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Republicans Already Have a Plan to Make Clinton’s Presidency a Living HellWe will yearn for the cooperation and love they showed Obama.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    The Oddly Snobbish Anti-Intellectualism of Donald TrumpHe loves the poorly educated, and he attended the best schools.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Donald Trump Is Not Like Al GoreA deconstruction of the latest Republican rationalization.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Donald Trump Confirms at 3rd Debate He Is a Domestic InsurrectionistHe is working against the stability of American democracy.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    The Rigged 2000 Florida Recount and the Path to Donald TrumpWe’ve forgotten what true rigging looks like.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Religious Right Now Judgment-Free, Thanks to Donald TrumpThe moral majority is now the immoral minority.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Why Are Senate Democrats Letting Marco Rubio Win?A choice they might regret in four years.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    McCain Vows Supreme Court Blockade Will Continue Through Clinton’s PresidencyConstitutional crises everywhere.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Donald Trump Might Not Be Running for PresidentIt’s possible he just wants his own television network.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Donald Trump’s Locker Room Is the Entire World“Who is doing the raping?”
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Trump Ad Targets Crucial Hillary Clinton–Loving, Tim Kaine–Hating ConstituencyFinally, a message for people who love Hillary but fear she might die.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Would You Vote for a Sexual Predator?The personal, the political, and Donald Trump
    By Jonathan Chait
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    At Second Debate, Donald Trump Was the Perfect RepublicanFamiliar, comforting lies to soothe a rattled party.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Russia Conducted Wiki-Hack, Says U.S. IntelligenceIt’s neo-McCarthyism!
    By Jonathan Chait
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    The Myth of the ‘Change Election’A fable of conventional wisdom that comforts Republicans.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Mike Pence Lost the Debate Because He Lied About the Wrong StuffNever lie about statements that are on video.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Mike Pence Would Have Done Great at the Debate If Donald Trump Didn’t ExistAn evening of escapist fantasy for conservative intellectuals who like to imagine their party has nominated a qualified, normal person for president.
    By Jonathan Chait
  38. Potty Mouth Mike Pence Says ‘Sh*t’ at a Campaign EventTrump’s habits appear to be rubbing off on his buttoned-up Evangelical running mate.
    By Adam K. Raymond
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    How Pivot Became the Euphemism of the Trump CampaignA term has been abused into meaninglessness.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Hillary Clinton Can’t Let Donald Trump Win the Corruption Issue“Follow the money,” says candidate who won’t let you follow his money.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Republicans in Denial That the Debate Exposed Donald Trump As Unfit for OfficeEverybody is to blame except the candidate who is obviously too ignorant and lazy to be president.
    By Jonathan Chait
  42. Fat-Shamed Miss Universe Was Once Accused of Participating in Murder PlotShe was never charged. “I’m not a saint girl,” she says now.
    By Adam K. Raymond
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    How Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Made Alicia Machado the New Khizr KhanClinton set the perfect trap, and Trump walked right into it.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Ranting Bully Donald Trump Came Unglued in First Presidential DebateA draw on economics, a total slaughter on character.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Why Debate Moderators Shouldn’t Be Fact-checkersRepublicans aren’t going to participate.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Should You Panic Over the Polls? Yes, You ShouldThe presidential election is legit extremely close.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Obama’s Climate Plan Will Survive Legal ChallengeThere’s only one remaining Republican who can destroy life as we know it.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Donald Trump Is a Lazy Idiot, Trump Campaign Tells New York TimesIs it possible to set expectations too low?
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Trump Endorsed by Populist Democrat, Money Launderer Andrew SteinA few key biographical facts did not make it into the endorsement column.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    The Abnormalization of Hillary ClintonThe notion that Clinton’s email scandal is disqualifying requires a suspension of any rational standards or historical memory.
    By Jonathan Chait
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