Ed Kilgore wonders if Rand Paul can actually become the mainstream candidate for 2016 he wants to be when his past is so deeply intertwined with the Paul Revolution.
Happy Hobby Lobby Day! As the birth control mandate is argued before the supreme court, take a minute to read our explainer on the cases, what the bigger (and worrisome) implications of the decision could be — including that it could open the floodgates to more anti-gay legislation — and how Justice Scalia will have to reckon with his past on religious liberty.
“The Daily Show” was back last night after a week off, and Jon Stewart took the chance to mock CNN’s insane coverage of the missing Malaysian airplane. Watch it.
A press call touting a new pro-Rick Scott ad got cut short when reporters kept asking questions about an ex-finance chair who allegedly quit over staffers mimicking cartoonish Mexican accents.
Sahil Kapur looks at what Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once said about the role of religious liberty, and how he’ll have to jump through some jurisprudence hoops to attack Obamacare’s birth control mandate.
Chris Christie’s own investigation finds that he did nothing wrong in the Bridgegate scandal.
Sarah Erdreich: “This attempt to legislate the private lives and choices of others ignores the reality that giving women and men greater control over their reproductive health is good public health policy.”
Remember the Democratic freakout over Obamacare that was supposed to happen following the Republican win in the Florida special congressional election earlier this month? Weeks later, it still hasn’t happened.