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03.18.15 | 12:23 pm
He’s Right

Ed Kilgore explains how 2016 just became a wildly high-stakes election, with a big chance for the GOP to win it all.

03.18.15 | 12:10 pm
Your Israeli Election Explainer

How did the polls in Israeli manage to get it so wrong? I explain.

03.18.15 | 9:49 am
House GOP Still Going After Social Security

New House GOP budget pretty much same as old House GOP budget — except for explicitly targeting Social Security.

03.18.15 | 9:44 am
Unspoken

Behind the on-going wars over abortion, birth control, clinic access, transvaginal ultrasounds and more, the hidden history of miscarriages.

03.18.15 | 9:11 am
Mickey Kaus Out At Daily Caller

Mickey Kaus column at Daily Caller gets yanked for critiquing Fox — for not being Fox enough! Kaus quits.

03.18.15 | 9:03 am
Well Done, Everyone

Liz Mair resigns from Scott Walker political org over those basically true and defensible (albeit snarky … gasp!) tweets about Iowa.

03.18.15 | 2:12 am
Your Israel Election Results, WTF Edition

As you may have seen, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scored a clear victory in last night’s Israeli election that looks all but certain to keep him as Prime Minister in the next government. It is important to note that Netanyahu scored not one but what amounts to two major upsets last night.

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03.17.15 | 4:44 pm
More Israeli Election Details

A scattering of new details from the Israeli election results. And to be clear, we only have exit polls so far – though Israeli exit polls have a better record than American ones.

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03.17.15 | 4:12 pm
Bibi’s Big Comeback

Polls just closed in Israel and a raft of exit of polls show a big comeback for Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud, who closed the last two days with a round of racist, anti-Arab Israeli appeals to consolidate the right wing vote in Likud. It seems to have worked. The exit polls don’t all agree. But most show a virtual tie between Labor and Likud in the high 20 seat range. In other words, both major parties seem to have over-performed their numbers.

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03.17.15 | 2:18 pm
Schocker!

Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) resigns.