Tag: Commentary

Combined, the six contests will award 30 percent of the delegates needed to win the GOP nomination. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

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Guide to the GOP’s March 15 delegate rules

Jason Russell · March 15, 2016 4:00 am

In the decade since the Duke Lacrosse rape hoax, members of the media have not learned anything when it comes to stories that confirm their pre-existing narratives. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)

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Ten years after Duke Lacrosse rape hoax, media has learned nothing

Ashe Schow · March 14, 2016 9:37 pm

Trump, Clinton and Sanders' proposed reforms show an eye to ideals of the past. (AP Photos)

Will the politics of nostalgia trump the politics of the future?

Michael Barone · March 14, 2016 8:54 pm

Two super PACs affiliated with Ted Cruz, Stand for Truth and Keep the Promise I, spent in the most recent week of available data more against Rubio than Trump. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

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Cruz’s super PACs spent more against Rubio than Trump in last week

Jason Russell · March 14, 2016 8:51 pm

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is drawing a huge following from voters angry about the direction of the country. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Trump’s reckless attitude toward violence

Washington Examiner · March 14, 2016 5:50 pm

Emma Sulkowicz made national news when she began carrying her mattress around campus to protest the fact that the man she accused of brutally raping her was found "not responsible" by Columbia University.

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Student accused of rape by ‘Mattress Girl’ has lawsuit dismissed

Ashe Schow · March 14, 2016 5:12 pm

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The Democratic race so far, in one simple chart

Michael Barone · March 14, 2016 3:10 pm

Donald Trump draws from low-education voters, Ted Cruz from evangelicals and "very conservative" voters, Marco Rubio and John Kasich from high-education and high-income voters (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Beltway Confidential

The Republican race so far, in one simple chart

Michael Barone · March 14, 2016 12:49 pm

The oil and natural gas industry has been a pillar of strength in a period of otherwise anemic growth. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Energy and Environment

The energy industry can help address climate change

Arness Dancy · March 14, 2016 5:01 am

Want to save lives? Don’t regulate e-cigarettes

Michelle Minton · March 14, 2016 5:01 am

A migrant father with his child awaits on the Greek side of the border to enter Macedonia near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija on March 1. Macedonian is restricting the entry of refugees to match the number of those leaving the country, allowing in only refugees from Syria and Iraq, in response to bottlenecks further up along the Balkans migrant route. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Misdiagnosing the refugee crisis

Dan Hannan · March 14, 2016 5:01 am

John Kasich shows very little movement. In five of the six surveys this month, he's been between 32 percent and 35 percent. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

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PARSING THE POLLS: Kasich barely leads Trump in Ohio while Cruz climbs

Timothy P. Carney · March 14, 2016 2:39 am