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Barry Goldwater
Ted Cruz (Mistakenly) Touts His 2024 Presidential Odds The senator noted that “historically the runner-up is almost always the next nominee.” It’s a common but untrue hypothesis.
By Ed Kilgore
republicans
Oct. 26, 2021
A Short History of Conservative Trolling On the laughing emptiness at the center of the Republican Party.
By Rick Perlstein
the national interest
Feb. 25, 2021
By Jonathan Chait
capitol riot
Feb. 16, 2021
The Bozell Family Tradition of Right-Wing Extremism Brent Bozell IV, arrested after the Capitol Riot, seems to have followed in the footsteps of his media critic father and his Francoist grandfather.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Nov. 15, 2020
How Georgia Became the Ultimate Battleground State Georgia Democrats have slowly come back after brief successes under Carter and Clinton. But in the January Senate runoffs, they have their big chance.
By Ed Kilgore
past is prologue
Sept. 15, 2020
The Reasons To Not Like Ike As the new Eisenhower Memorial opens, a more measured examination of the 34th president and his legacy is appropriate.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 6, 2020
Does Labor Day Mark the Beginning of the Real Presidential Race? Legend aside, most presidential races are largely decided before Labor Day, with partisan polarization and early voting contributing to that reality.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Feb. 11, 2020
New Hampshire Can Be Upsetting The Granite State has a history of nasty surprises for expected presidential primary winners.
By Ed Kilgore
Racism Has Thwarted American Ideals From the Beginning, and Still Does Instead of complaining about greater recognition of racism in American history, conservatives should realize it has been their enemy, too.
By Ed Kilgore
orange county
Aug. 7, 2019
Republicans Are Now Outnumbered in Conservative Bastion of Orange County Ronald Reagan once called Orange County, California, “where all good Republicans go to die.” Now demographics and Trump are turning it blue.
By Ed Kilgore
historical revisionism
Apr. 9, 2019
Yes, Candace, the Southern Strategy Is Real In an egregious statement of historical revisionism, right-wing controversialist Candace Owens denies some very basic facts.
By Ed Kilgore
Does Bolton Represent an Unhinged ‘Cheney/Trump Wing’ of the GOP? Maybe Bolton — like Cheney and Trump — doesn’t represent any school of foreign-policy “thinking,” but instead pure bellicose action.
By Ed Kilgore
Endangered California Republicans Feuding Over Ideology Having fallen to a historic low point, California Republicans are still fighting over conservative purity and loyalty to an unpopular president.
By Ed Kilgore
Clinton Campaign Releases Sequel to Famous Anti-Goldwater Ad In 1964, lifelong Republican Bill Bogert told television viewers why he couldn’t bring himself to support the GOP nominee. In 2016, Bogert is back, to do the very same thing.
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
Jan. 16, 2015
By Jonathan Chait