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Now that we've seen the barely controlled chaos that was Thursday's Republican debate -- a CNN closed-captioner aptly pegged one exchange as "unintelligible yelling"...
Farthest right
Matthew Yglesias writes at Vox that the candidate with the most extreme message is not Donald Trump — but the establishment favorite, Marco Rubio himself.
Racing forward
No one...
Lion's den
A 16-year-old flew from Toronto to Missouri to confront Monsanto's CEO Hugh Grant about the risks of genetically modified organisms. Rachel Parent described the...
Four angry men are leading the Republican pack: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Chris Christie.
If the Republican debates are an exercise in...
Complicated history
The complicated history of Nikki Haley met up with the complicated history of Barack Obama to take on the Donald's not so complicated history. Via The...