Live Blog: Policies, Not Personalities, Take Center Stage in 12th GOP Debate

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Mar 11, 2016 Thursday's subdued debate in Miami focused on ideas for change, but Donald Trump's competitors failed to pose a substantial challenge even as they played to their strengths and kept things civil. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

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Candidates Upped the Ante at Latest GOP Debate, Promising 4 Ground Wars and the Murder of Innocents

Juan Cole / Truthdig Mar 6, 2016 At yet another GOP debate, there was a foreign policy section, which Fox News predictably put under the heading of “terrorism.” Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Rep. Alan Grayson Says to U.S. Progressives: Don’t Flee to Canada–Stay and Fight

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 4, 2016 While Republicans debated the size of Donald Trump’s endowments Thursday evening, Florida Rep. Alan Grayson urged anxious progressives to stand their ground in the event that Republicans take the White House this fall. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The GOP’s Schoolyard Scuffle

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Mar 1, 2016 The race for the Republican presidential nomination couldn't possibly get any more bizarre, appalling, puerile, embarrassing, self-destructive or -- hold on, this just in: It did. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Rubio’s Seven Fallacies on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Juan Cole / Truthdig Feb 27, 2016 To please corrupt casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and other GOP donors of his ilk, Rubio immediately jumped into Thursday night's Republican debate to make a series of completely false and contradictory pronouncements on the Palestinians, about whom he knows nothing at all. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Live-Blog: The 10th GOP Debate: Somebody Stop the Trump Train (Updated)

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Feb 26, 2016 Donald Trump was the one to beat, and the other four candidates—Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Kasich and Ben Carson—knew it all too well. Update: Rubio momentarily took control in a rat-a-tat series of attacks that simultaneously painted Trump as a hypocrite and made light of Rubio's prior debate stumbles. Donald Trump was the one to beat, and the other four candidates—Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Kasich and Ben Carson—knew it all too well. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

George W. Bush, Who Mirrored and Inflamed Public Passions, Attacks Donald Trump for Doing It (Video)

Juan Cole / Truthdig Feb 16, 2016 George W. Bush came out of political exile on Monday to be his brother Jeb’s surrogate in attacking Donald Trump. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Donald Trump Does Away With the GOP’s 9/11 Fantasy

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Feb 16, 2016 "Surely this time," the Republican establishment chorus cries with joy, "Donald Trump has gone too far!" Don't bet on it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Face It: Donald Trump Is Right About Iraq—and That Should Sink Hillary Clinton

Staff / Truthdig Feb 15, 2016 The discerning listener knows that the GOP front-runner has been critical of U.S. militarism for some time. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Marco Rubio Was Anything but Presidential During the GOP New Hampshire Debate

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Feb 9, 2016 It's time for establishment Republicans to face the truth about Marco Rubio: Once you get past the facade, there appears to be no there there. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

VIDEO: Eighth GOP Debate Roundup: Marco Rubio Shaken but Not Taken, Donald Trump Dials It Down

Staff / Truthdig Feb 8, 2016 Viewers who tuned in Saturday night to the eighth GOP debate caught a subtler side of Donald Trump, who showed up for the occasion but mostly let his rivals take swipes at one another. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )