There was less shouting but Rubio still denies man-made climate change, Cruz blames Obama for violence at rallies and Trump still likes the idea of torture
The US Republican front-runner often complains that he’s been dismissed by the media. But it’s not him that the pundits are contemptuous of — it’s his supporters
Don’t blame Trump or pity him: Bush bungled his own campaign from the start and may have ended a dynasty of genteel political malfeasance and mass death
Like the movie ‘Memento’, reality resets every 24 hours in the American political consciousness, and what is real is whatever the politicians need it to be
After the third Republican debate, there’s a kind of empty despair at the back of Jeb Bush’s eyes. As for Rand Paul, he was barely there. Both should defer to reality
People don’t like politicians now, but adding the ‘now’ suggests that anyone ever had reason to. Candidates’ anti-politician posturing is either scary or ridiculous