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Yes, Obama Could Appoint a Scalia Replacement Today

The conservative freak-out over the president's recess appointment power is legitimate.

Antonin Scalia

Cruz, Rubio, and Other Conservatives Want to Stop Obama From Replacing Scalia

That didn't take long.

Obama Rejects GOP Demands, Pledges to Appoint Scalia's Replacement

Clinton Slams Republicans

6 Cases Now Pretty Much Decided After Scalia's Death

Donald Trump Blames George W. Bush for 9/11

Jeb fought back.

—Delphine d'Amora

GOP Debate

The Top 5 Moments From the Republican Debate

Trump blames W for 9/11, Cruz gets booed, and much more.

—Patrick Caldwell and Hannah Levintova

Yes, Obama Could Appoint a Scalia Replacement Today

The conservative freak-out over the president's recess appointment power is legitimate.

Antonin Scalia

Cruz, Rubio, and Other Conservatives Want to Stop Obama From Replacing Scalia

That didn't take long.

Obama Rejects GOP Demands, Pledges to Appoint Scalia's Replacement

Clinton Slams Republicans

6 Cases Now Pretty Much Decided After Scalia's Death

Donald Trump Blames George W. Bush for 9/11

Jeb fought back.

—Delphine d'Amora

GOP Debate

The Top 5 Moments From the Republican Debate

Trump blames W for 9/11, Cruz gets booed, and much more.

—Patrick Caldwell and Hannah Levintova

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Yes, Obama Could Appoint a Scalia Replacement Today

Donald Trump Joins the Chorus of Scalia Assassination Conspiracy Theorists

—Miles E. Johnson

This Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Men Get Their Spouses' Permission for Viagra

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, First UN Secretary-General from Africa, Has Died

Hillary Clinton's Nevada Fans

Sorry, Hillary Clinton, Nevada Is Actually a Diverse State

—Patrick Caldwell

Sheldon Adelson Documents

—Becca Andrews

Sheldon Adelson

Sheldon Adelson Bets It All

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Why Did Sheldon Adelson Buy Nevada's Biggest Paper?

—Russ Choma and Madison Pauly

Woodward and Bernstein Can't Stop Comparing Hillary Clinton to Richard Nixon

Victims of the Mexican Drug War Are Suing the Banks that Handled the Cartel's Money

The American State of Teenage Sex in 3 Charts

—Becca Andrews

GOP Debate

The Top 5 Moments From the Republican Debate

—Patrick Caldwell and Hannah Levintova

Donald Trump Blames George W. Bush for 9/11

—Delphine d'Amora

Obama

Watch: Obama Rejects GOP Demands, Pledges to Appoint Scalia's Replacement

—Jeremy Schulman

Clinton Slams Republicans for Threatening to Block Scalia's Replacement

—Jeremy Schulman

US Supreme Court

Here Are Six All-Important Cases Now Pretty Much Decided After Scalia's Death

—Stephanie Mencimer

Antonin Scalia

Cruz, Rubio, and Other Conservatives Want to Stop Obama From Replacing Scalia

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Is Dead at 79

Hillary Clinton and Henry Kissinger: It's Personal. Very Personal.

Kerry Lavrov

There's Finally an Agreement to Stop the Fighting in Syria—and It's Probably Doomed

—Max J. Rosenthal

Why Are George Soros-Linked Financiers Giving Big Bucks to Support John Kasich?

A Majority of States Now Have Right-to-Work Laws

—Delphine d'Amora

CHARTS

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

3 Anger-Inducing Charts About Kids and Prison

VIDEO

Martin O'Malley

Watch Martin O'Malley Sing the "Iowa Waltz"

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Puerto Rico Crisis Goes From Bad to Worse

MAPS

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Campus Protests Are Spreading Like Wildfire

LONGREADS

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

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