Politics

Bernie Sanders

Sanders Talks Up His Small Game on the Eve of His First Big Test

And takes a final dig at Hillary Clinton along the way.

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Big Donors Have Fled Jeb Bush's Super-PAC

This doesn't bode well.

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Bracing for Defeat, Santorum Uses the Waning Spotight to Reminisce

In 2012, he won Iowa in a surprise. This time, he's reveling in past successes.

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Ted Cruz Supporters Feel God's Calling

Cruz is working hard to woo evangelicals—and some hear God at his rallies.

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Bernie Sanders

Sanders Talks Up His Small Game on the Eve of His First Big Test

And takes a final dig at Hillary Clinton along the way.

—

Big Donors Have Fled Jeb Bush's Super-PAC

This doesn't bode well.

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Bracing for Defeat, Santorum Uses the Waning Spotight to Reminisce

In 2012, he won Iowa in a surprise. This time, he's reveling in past successes.

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Ted Cruz Supporters Feel God's Calling

Cruz is working hard to woo evangelicals—and some hear God at his rallies.

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Why Detroit's Teachers Are Suing Their School District

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Why Libertarians Are (Still) Plotting to Take Over New Hampshire

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Schools Across America Are Facing a Rash of Shooting and Bomb Threats

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Bernie Sanders

Sanders Talks Up His Small Game on the Eve of His First Big Test

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Big Donors Have Fled Jeb Bush's Super-PAC

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Bracing for Defeat, Santorum Uses the Waning Spotight to Reminisce

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National Nurses United for Bernie

Clinton Can't Count on Union Backing in Iowa, Despite Endorsements

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Ted Cruz Supporters Feel God's Calling

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Is Ted Cruz Spreading False Information About Iowans?

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Ted Cruz Defends Mailer Dubbed "Misleading" By Iowa's Secretary of State

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Vampire Weekend Played This Classic Song in Honor of Bernie Sanders in Iowa

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Chris Christie

Chris Christie Tells Iowans That Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio Are Liars

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Facebook Is Banning Private Gun Sales

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Ted Cruz's New Anti-Choice Group Is Headed by a Guy Who Thinks Abortion Caused the Drought

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Ben Carson

Ben Carson Says Islam Is Not a Religion But a "Life Organization System"

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Barack Obama and Supreme Court Justices

Here’s the Latest Reason Republicans Are Afraid of a Hillary Clinton Presidency

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cybersecurity problem

EINSTEIN is Probably the Wrong Name for the Government's Very Flawed Cybersecurity System

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With Time Running Out in Iowa, Clinton Throws a Hail Mary

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What Wrecked Ben Carson's Campaign? Ex-Staffers Blame His Close Friend.

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Marco Rubio Finds His Religion

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What Donald Trump's Debate-Rivaling Rally Says About His Candidacy

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Vámonos! An Unprecedented Latino Voter Drive Could Tip the Scales in Iowa

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Tens of Millions Wasted on "Ghost" Schools, and That’s Just the Tip of the Iceberg

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CHARTS

3 Troubling Ways the Charter School Boom Is Like the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

3 Anger-Inducing Charts About Kids and Prison

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Martin O'Malley

Watch Martin O'Malley Sing the "Iowa Waltz"

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INTERACTIVES

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MAPS

3 Anger-Inducing Charts About Kids and Prison

Campus Protests Are Spreading Like Wildfire

LONGREADS

When He Was 16, This Man Threw One Punch—and Went to Jail for Life

Meet "Sledgehammer Shannon," the Lawyer Who Is Uber’s Worst Nightmare

PHOTO ESSAYS

25 Years Later: Photos From the First Time We Invaded Iraq

Haunting Photos of the Risky Search for Mexico’s Disappeared

Photo Essays + Slideshows

A Bitter Leaf

Inside the Bolivian cocaine trade, a family affair.

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Stark Photos of the World's Last Legal Polar Bear Hunt

Only indigenous peoples may hunt the world's remaining polar bears. Could that soon come to an end?

Children working in a mine

The Photos That Helped End Child Labor in the United States

Lewis Hine sometimes went undercover to capture images of kids at work.

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