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Voting for a candidate because she’s a woman is cute (when you’re 8 years old)

NPR listener Josh and his daughter, Penelope, recently had a conversation about gender and politics, which became more involving than they might realize...  Read more

White Castle VP on $15 min. wage: Higher prices, fewer ‘first jobs’

New York State passed a $15 an hour minimum wage on April 4, and while progressives celebrate the victory against poverty, employers are already starting to take drastic steps to counter the new labor expenses...  Read more

If Trump Wins, Obamacare Wins

The key domestic policy fight of 2017 will be over Obamacare...  Read more

Inside a Colorado Caucus

Donald Trump is furious over losing to Ted Cruz in Colorado  Read more

Rand Paul says convention rules 'backfiring' on the GOP

Sen. Rand Paul suggested Tuesday that the GOP establishment shot itself in the foot in 2012  Read more

Cruz, Rubio join forces in Arkansas to block Trump delegates

Ted Cruz's and Marco Rubio's supporters have teamed up in Arkansas to pack the state delegation  Read more

Chicago’s minority millennials hurt most by bad economics: ‘The Lost Generation’

Depressing youth employment prospects in Illinois have policymakers admitting that bad economic policies are hurting the young  Read more

Hillary Clinton’s voter base: Old, white liberals

Hillary hasn’t been doing herself any favors with the youth vote lately  Read more

The Worst Primary Argument

Voters don't care about 'electability.'  Read more

Student leader told to resign after writing “Trump 2016”

The pro-Trump chalk messages keep occurring on campuses across the country because students keep flipping out with overreactions  Read more

Honest Millennial: “Millennials shouldn’t vote”

Millennials are so entitled, to blame for the Kardashians, and, most of all, idealistic, that they shouldn’t even vote. Alex Horn, a millennial student writing for Columbia Spectator, thinks the generation making up 80 million young…  Read more

Scarborough: Dems telling voters to go 'straight to hell'

Joe Scarborough argued Monday that the Democratic primary process is a blatant example of voter disenfranchisement  Read more

Can Trump really win it?

The closer Donald Trump gets to the Republican presidential nomination, the worse his position in the general election appears  Read more

Countdown to Cleveland

The rap on Ted Cruz has been that his strength is limited to (1) caucus states and (2) states with large proportions of evangelical Christians  Read more

How Ted Cruz could capture the presidency

The operating assumption for political observers going into the 2016 election has been that Sen. Ted Cruz doesn't stand a chance to win a general election  Read more

The Democratic nomination fight is starting to get interesting

Sen. Sanders has finally taken the gloves off, but it may be too little too late.  Read more

Is this Hillary Clinton’s worst week ever?

Hillary Clinton has had a few stumbles this week, to put it kindly  Read more

Bill Clinton: #BlackLivesMatter defends drug dealers and murders

Bill Clinton was the face of “a place called Hope.”  Read more