2016-election

The GOP's Biggest Losers Debate Was a Glorious Car Crash

Jordan Sargent · 08/07/15 02:30PM

The Republican debate held at 5 p.m. last night, which featured the current 11th through 17th most popular GOP candidates in the 2016 field, was perhaps the least consequential national debate in American history. This is, of course, exactly why it was so uniquely satisfying to watch.

Huckabee On Trans Soldiers: "The Military Is Not a Social Experiment"

Jordan Sargent · 08/06/15 10:12PM

In tonight’s debate, Fox’s Brett Baier directed a question about the Obama administration potentially allowing transgender soldiers to serve openly in the military to Mike Huckabee, who gave the exact grotesque answer you would expect, saying that the military is “not a social experiment” and that is instead around to “kill people and break things.”

Trump's New, Super-Official Net Worth Exaggeration: Over $10 Billion

Jay Hathaway · 07/22/15 04:45PM

The Federal Election Commission Wednesday released the 92-page personal financial disclosure of one Donald J. Trump, a $4 billion puddle of tinted moisturizer haphazardly garnished with hair and eyebrows who wants to be the next president. The Trump-puddle, who oozed slowly down an escalator last month and (inaccurately) declared he was worth $8.7 billion, has increased his claim by more than a billion since then.

A "Flat Tax" Is Just a Giveaway to the Rich 

Hamilton Nolan · 06/18/15 12:10PM

Libertarian-esque wet dream Rand Paul is still considered a “serious” candidate for president, in part because people have not had time to fully digest his policy prescriptions. For example: today he proposed a massive tax cut for the rich!

Jon Stewart Announces His Presidential Pick for 2016

Jay Hathaway · 01/06/15 10:15AM

The Daily Show is back, providing a palliative balm for the lingering itch where the Colbert Report used to be. But poor Jon Stewart has returned to 2015 only to find the news cycle has already moved on to 2016 (or backward to 1992) with a Clinton vs. Bush race for the White House. Better endorse someone!

The Dream That Never Was: Black Millennials and the Promise of Obama

Vann R. Newkirk II · 12/01/14 11:10AM

I'm not prepared to paper over the faults in my perceptions of politics. I'm not ready to confront whatever comes after post-race. I'm not ready to eulogize whatever vestiges of Black Camelot remain. And I don't know if I'm equipped for the world After Obama.