Politics Archive
Archives for December 2015


Where every presidential candidate stands on Trump’s plan to ban Muslims from entering America, in one chart.


Ohio’s attorney general found no evidence that Planned Parenthood was “selling” fetal tissue, but he also made some weird claims that the provider is throwing fetuses in landfills. What’s going on?


Here’s why things look like they’re getting really bad in northern Nigeria.

How terrorism has changed over time, from the French Revolution to ISIS.


The IAEA officially concluded its big investigation. Here’s what it found.


First signs of institutional support for the firebrand Texan.


The second of 12 GOP presidential debates airs on CNN at 8 pm Eastern on Wednesday, September 16, 2015. The 2016 presidential candidates on stage will include Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio and others.


They will tear each other into pieces.


The evening featured a series of clashes between protesters and security guards, egged on by supporters and the candidate himself.


It may sound like a buzzkill, but it’s good for public health.


It’s time for a better conversation on these issues.


Football players changed the university in November. Two legislators introduced a bill to make sure that never happens again.


Trump has made clear that Ted Cruz is far from the worst possible outcome for the Republican Party.


If the president tried this, people would freak out. But it’s the Fed.

He said he had a bomb and that there were radio-controlled explosives stationed throughout the city. He said Sydney was under attack by Islamic State.