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What You Need to Read in the RNC Election-Autopsy Report
It's an astonishingly frank document that calls for major changes in how the party addresses minorities, women, and its own campaign processes.
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It's an astonishingly frank document that calls for major changes in how the party addresses minorities, women, and its own campaign processes.
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Nearly five months after his loss, conservatives say he was just not the right man for the times.
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Facing an audience of conservative activists, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul let loose with a little China- and Egypt-bashing.
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Obama and House Republicans met yesterday. It looked real fun.
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The state's new law restricting abortions to the first 12 weeks is blatantly unconstitutional -- and not that different from what a lot of European nations have in place.
Uncle Sam's older, classier sister Columbia fell out of favor after women got the vote. Maybe it's time to bring her back.
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According to a new study, the answer is no -- not by a long shot.
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What Obama's really proposing is a massive ramp-up in programs to help the children of the poor and lower-middle class, not something for everyone.
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O tempora, o mores! The Washington Examiner rounds up the senator's other awkward rehydration moments.
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There's no clear path to a minimum-wage hike in today's Congress. So why did the president surprise members of his own party and bring it up in the State of the Union?
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Human moments from the ridiculous to the heart-rending lept from the boilerplate at the State of the Union address and the GOP response to it.
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The Florida Republican's efforts to situate himself within his immigrant community make him sound both more regional and more grounded than the average U.S. Senator.
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Tidbits from the prepared for delivery version of Obama's speech.
Nobody loves workmanlike laundry lists, but four former presidential speechwriters say there's little hope for shorter speeches any time soon.
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He's posed as a pirate and toiled on the funerals beat. Now he's taking over the task of writing the president's major addresses.
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An impressive array of movement leaders rallies to defend Brent Bozell after American Crossroads spokesman Jonathan Collegio calls him a "hater."
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A Super Bowl advertisement for Ram Trucks featuring excerpts from a Carter-era address to the Future Farmers of America Convention struck a chord with its religious imagery.
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The same day The New York Times published a story on growing questions around whether Obama actually shot skeet, the White House released photographic proof.
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Sometimes art and life collide in ways that make your head spin, as in Nancy Pelosi's tweeting of the final episode of 30 Rock.
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Decades after the left and Democrats went through wrenching debates about language and respect, the Republican Party is struggling to rein in its sharper tongues.
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A group founded in 1998 to promote women in politics and help one win the presidency quietly folded, citing the fundraising environment.
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This city is full of flies. Sometimes Obama can knock one off with his bare hands. Sometimes a fly wins the day.
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Despite progress, the circumstances that gave rise to the rebellion that began the contemporary gay rights movement haven't changed as much as we might think.
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A grayer, grimmer, more experienced Obama kicks off his second term by bringing back the Hope.
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In July 1992, he sat down for Booknotes to talk about his reporting method.
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All you people trying to yoke the 1991 feminist movie to the fiscal-cliff negotiations seem to have forgotten that it's a vigilante fantasy about rape culture -- and ends badly.
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Handwritten messages on coffee cup sleeves in Washington, D.C., are urging residents to "Come Together" to address the fiscal cliff and national debt.
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The CEO president of the gun industry lobbying group's call for the placement of armed guards in schools followed a well-worn sales script.
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A stark video with echoes of "Yes We Can" stars an impressive array of boldface names in a spot for Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Reuters (Rice); Associated Press (Clinton)
Sure, everyone loves Clinton now. But first she had to survive a decade and a half of right-wing attacks.
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