Abbreviated pundit roundup: Republican establishment in disarray over Trump's...
Maeve Reston at CNN provides an overview of the Republican dilemma in choosing between Trump and Cruz — two candidates who are both horrible for the long-term branding of the Republican Party:The...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: President Obama's prison reform, the Democratic...
We begin today’s roundup with an op-ed by President Barack Obama explaining his executive action on banning solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons:The United States is a nation of second...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Cruz and Rubio rumble at GOP debate, but Trump...
We begin today’s roundup with Josh Voorhees at Slate who catalogues Ted Cruz's whining and awkward jokes during the debate (with video):Say what you want about Trump—and I certainly have!—but his jokes...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: What a night in Iowa!
We begin today’s roundup with Dana Milbank’s take at The Washington Post on the Republican results in yesterday’s Iowa caucuses:The establishment struck back.The headlines will show that Ted Cruz won...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: A spirited Democratic debate
We begin today’s roundup with analysis on yesterday’s Democratic debate from Anne Gearan and Karen Tumulty at The Washington Post:Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, meeting Thursday night for their...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Rubio still reeling from debate glitch
We begin with The New York Times editorial board:With the Darwinian efficiency that characterizes our modern electoral system, voters representing less than 1 percent of the American electorate may by...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Clinton and Sanders debate the issues
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders took to the debate stage again yesterday in a largely substance-filled debate focused on income inequality, institutional racism and foreign policy. We begin with...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Republicans are wrong in calling on Obama to...
Editorial boards and pundits across the country are calling out Republicans for their complete disregard of the Constitution in the wake of Justice Scalia’s death. We begin with Chris Cillizza at The...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump vs. the Pope
We begin today’s roundup with Lawrence Downes at The New York Times who points out that Republican presidential candidates are courting religious voters with some very un-Christian policies:[T]here is...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: GOP in full panic mode over Donald Trump
Alex Isenstadt at POLITICO gives us a snapshot of the freakout among the Republican Party establishment over Donald Trump’s strength:Establishment Republicans are reckoning with something they thought...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Analyzing the Republican debate
We begin today’s roundup with Philip Elliott and Zeke Miller’s analysis at TIME on last night’s Republican debate brawl:Donald Trump’s history in business and politics is pocked with bankruptcies and...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Republicans brace themselves for Super Tuesday...
We begin today’s roundup with Alex Isenstadt at POLITICO who explains why so many Republicans are dreading tonight’s election results:Donald Trump is poised for sweeping nationwide wins on Super...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The GOP debate, Romney's speech against Trump,...
We begin today’s roundup with Matthew Cooper at Newsweek:This was supposed to be the day the establishment began to rein in Trump. The debate was down to only four candidates. And Mitt Romney entered...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Republicans brace themselves for another Super...
Patrick Reis at POLITICO previews Super Tuesday:On Tuesday, Donald Trump will discover whether his weekend struggles were a speed bump — or the first signs of larger troubles ahead.If the polls are to...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: A calmer Republican debate (still filled with...
Republican presidential candidates engaged in a much more subdued debate last night, refraining from their usual arsenal of snipping and insults and giving them a chance to showcase their substantive...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Rubio's last stand, Trump's violent rhetoric and...
We begin today’s roundup with Jonathan Martin and Nate Cohn at The New York Times and their analysis on today’s primaries:The Republican presidential campaign will not end next week, or even next...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Republicans frantically trying to craft strategy...
We begin today’s roundup with Eugene Robinson at The Washington Post who points out that the movement to stop Trump “its a joke”:The stop-Trump “movement” in the Republican Party has been, thus far, a...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Republican hypocrisy
We begin today’s roundup with this op-ed from Nancy Pelosi calling out Republicans for their hypocrisy on tax cuts and the deficit:President Clinton handed his successor, President George W. Bush, a...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump, terrorism and more
We begin today’s roundup with Eugene Robinson at The Washington Post and his take on Donald Trump’s ignorance of foreign and domestic policy:Donald Trump’s ignorance of government policy, both foreign...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Republican self-destruction
We begin today’s roundup with this excellent piece by Eugene Robinson at The Washington Post:One of the more absurd things being said about the Donald Trump phenomenon is that the media created it. For...
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