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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Worst of All Worlds
What could be worse for a creaky, cancerous political system than a match between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump?
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Drew Angerer / Stringer / Getty How Can the U.S. Shrink the Influence of Money in Politics?
Campaign finance is at the very heart of complaints about elections. Let’s look at some of the claims about money’s role, and proposals to change it.
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Phelan M. Ebenhack / AP What Americans Don’t Get About Nordic Countries
When U.S. politicians talk about Scandinavian-style social welfare, they fail to explain the most important aspect of such policies: selfishness.
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Joe Skipper / Reuters The Final Stage of Republican Grief
With Donald Trump's hold on the nomination strengthening, some in the GOP establishment believe it’s time for acceptance.
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Joe Skipper / Reuters Donald Trump Has a Huge Tuesday
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Joe Skipper / Reuters A Very Good Night for Trump
The Republican front-runner drew closer to the nomination, as Hillary Clinton added to her mounting lead in pledged delegates.
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Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters As Trump Moves Toward the Nomination
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Rubio Campaign Ends Where It Began
The Florida senator suspended his campaign at home in the Sunshine state, after voters there swung decisively in favor of Donald Trump
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Ben Earp / AP How North Carolina Explains Trump's Rise
Despite the disapproval of top state conservatives, the outsider exploited the same tensions that gave Republicans control of the Old North State’s government.
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Sean Rayford / Getty Bernie's Rage Against the Machine
Sanders’s candidacy has beaten back elite, establishment corporate centrism, offering his party a viable progressive alternative. That’s why he has already won.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Gaffe Track: Clinton's Benghazi Amnesia
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters Can Bernie Win Over the Establishment?
Fans of the presidential candidate, and his campaign, hope to reach the party elite.
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Carlos Osorio / AP Donald Trump, Wrestling Heel
The Republican candidate’s political rise is an inversion of his story arc on Monday Night Raw.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters The Stakes Are High in Ohio and Florida
A Trump loss in either state would be heartening for the establishment hoping to beat him.
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Ben Earp / AP The Resentment Powering Trump
His supporters believe he is the only one who understands their marginalization.
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Chris Keane / Reuters Trump Can't Tell the Truth About Violence at His Rallies
The Republican frontrunner fancies himself a bold truthteller, but he acts more like a peddler of escapist fantasies.
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Chuck Burton / AP Circling the Drain with Trump
Americans need to come up with a better way to disrupt the status quo—before it’s too late.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Gaffe Track: Hillary's Employment Plan for Coal Miners
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Reed Saxon / AP Voting While Elderly
The 102-year-old Florida woman who waited three hours to vote in 2012 inspired her son to action. Now he’ll wait in line and help older voters.
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Joe Skipper / Reuters Trump Supporters Make Their Case
