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the national interest
Oct. 2, 2015
House Conservatives Finally Got Boehner’s Scalp The Planned Parenthood videos brought down an unintended target.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Dec. 15, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Dec. 12, 2014
Why Do Republicans Defend Torture? The allegation that the Bush administration used torture had gone from outrageous smear to tired news without ever having passed through the stage of acceptable topic of discussion.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Dec. 9, 2014
The Long, Overdue Death of the Southern Democrats Building your liberal party around America’s most conservative region never made sense.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Dec. 2, 2014
Republicans Back to Raising Taxes on the Poor Because of immigration. It all makes sense, kind of.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Nov. 26, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
Republicans Hand Obama an Immigration Political Triumph “We shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger — we were strangers once, too.”
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Nov. 20, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Nov. 18, 2014
Can Obama Trade Keystone for Something? Minimum-wage hike? Confirm a judge? Some leftover Chinese-delivery soy-sauce packets?
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Nov. 12, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Nov. 10, 2014
Yes, the Republican Obamacare Strategy Will Kill People Man points out repealing Obamacare will kill him; conservatives enraged.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Nov. 5, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
Republicans Trying to Woo, or at Least Suppress, Minority Vote We’re trying to keep you from voting, but if you do vote, please choose us.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Oct. 13, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Sept. 9, 2014
Ted Cruz’s Obamacare Nightmare Comes to Life It’s like a bad dream, if your bad dreams involve sick people getting to see a doctor.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Sept. 5, 2014
A Southern GOP Can’t Be the Party of Lincoln American politics in its natural historic state.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 27, 2014
Obama’s Climate Deal Doesn’t Need the Senate Somebody has to save the planet, and it won’t be Mitch McConnell.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 27, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 20, 2014
The Republican Party’s Geriatric Trap Socialism for the old, capitalism for the poor.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 12, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 2, 2014
House Republicans Want President Hillary Clinton Or they’re just really dumb. Okay, it’s probably that.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 31, 2014
Ted Cruz Punks John Boehner Again, This Time on Immigration World’s saddest leader of a legislative body loses once more.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
June 22, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
June 9, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
May 22, 2014
Why Republicans Love Taxing the Poor A tiny snag in the conservative reform plan.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
May 21, 2014
Republicans Warn of Secret Obamacare Heretics Another healthy sign of intellectual vitality in the GOP.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
May 20, 2014
The Politics of Climate Change This Summer Will Be Worse Than Obamacare’s The scientific consensus is stronger and more urgent than ever, while the political consensus is weaker than ever.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
May 2, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Apr. 10, 2014
Paul’s GOP Hostile Takeover Gets More Hostile An audacious, heretofore successful plot meets its first resistance.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Mar. 4, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Feb. 21, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Feb. 19, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Feb. 6, 2014
The Lonely Death of the Republican Health-Care Plan Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Feb. 4, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Jan. 7, 2014
How Democrats Can Force Republicans to Help the Unemployed Republicans hate helping the jobless, but they do like giving cash to farmers.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Jan. 3, 2014
By Jonathan Chait