Tag: Republican Party

Token brain surgeon Ben Carson is the current front-runner in the GOP nomination race, but Jonathan Chait wonders if his campaign isn’t just an elaborate self-promotion. Carson is doing a lot…

The Democrats are supposed to be holding a presidential debate tonight, but a lively intramural argument broke out on the right this morning when conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks…

It is abundantly clear by now that the Republican attacks on Planned Parenthood have nothing to do with enforcing the laws of the United States, for David Daleiden’s falsely-edited smear videos prove…

Remember how culture warrior and quadrennial Republican presidential aspirant Mike Huckabee defended his friends, the Duggar family, after it turned out that a teenage Josh had felt up his sisters…

Ivana Trump, former spouse of current Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, once felt “violated” by her then-husband’s act of forcible sex. According to Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J.…

Among the first characters on whom we ever reported at BU, Ali Akbar is a convicted petty felon with a years-long, well-documented history of running fraudulent conservative political enterprises. In his latest…

For so many reasons, you absolutely must read this Washington Spectator article recounting how the conservative movement lined up to prevent the Internal Revenue Service from regulating political dark money groups. No,…

To be sure, Ben Carson is an accomplished pediatric neurosurgeon, which obviously means he’s intelligent. It’s just one of the qualities that make him so attractive to the conservative grassroots,…

Remember when Rand Paul stood up to filibuster drones for a day? Remember how ‘don’t drone me bro’ somehow morphed into ‘drones are awesome for killing liquor store robbers‘? Well,…

Last Wednesday, the Alabama House Health Committee voted to send HB405, the so-called ‘fetal heartbeat’ bill which would effectively ban abortions and force women to undergo invasive ultrasounds to obtain…