- Decoding Donald Trump’s ‘Sarcasm’ http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/decoding-donald-trumps-sarcasm/?action=click&pgtype=homepage&clicksource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&wt.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region 5 comments politics
- Decoding Donald Trump’s ‘Sarcasm’ http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/decoding-donald-trumps-sarcasm/?action=click&pgtype=homepage&clicksource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&wt.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region 10 comments politics
- "Donald Trump Checks In With the N.R.A." Trump will address the annual convention of the National Rifle Association on Friday in Louisville. http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/donald-trump-checks-in-with-the-n-r-a/ 7 comments politics
- Bernie Sanders Comes Clean - he made $1,867.43 in speaking engagement fees, which he then donated to charity http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/bernie-sanders-comes-clean/?_r=1 366 comments politics
- What Donald Trump’s Retweets Reveal http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/what-donald-trumps-retweets-reveal/?smid=re-share 10 comments politics
- Why Donald Trump Keeps Lying About Unemployment http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/why-donald-trump-keeps-lying-about-unemployment/?smid=re-share 5 comments politics
- Facts & Figures: Is Donald Trump the Most Electable Republican? http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/facts-figures-is-donald-trump-the-most-electable-republican/ 10 comments politics
- Florida Legislators Deny Gerrymandering as They Slouch Back to the Drawing Board http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/florida-legislators-deny-gerrymandering-as-they-slouch-back-to-the-drawing-board/?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share 24 comments politics
- Republican presidential candidates have generally refused to acknowledge the reality of climate change. New polls and a report issued last week show they aren’t helping themselves with business or voters. http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/bad-news-for-climate-change-deniers/?_r=0 26 comments politics
- Donald Trump, Chris Christie and the Republican Race to the Bottom http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com//2015/07/07/donald-trump-chris-christie-and-the-republican-race-to-the-bottom/ 4 comments politics
- The Economy Stalled in the First Quarter: Now What? http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/the-economy-stalled-in-the-first-quarter-now-what/ 6 comments politics
- The Economy Stalled in the First Quarter: Now What? "The weather subtracted about one percentage point from first-quarter growth" http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/the-economy-stalled-in-the-first-quarter-now-what/ 3 comments economy
- Ted Cruz’s Gay Marriage Opposition Is No Secret http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/ted-cruzs-gay-marriage-opposition-is-no-secret/?_r=0 4 comments politics
- Uh Oh, Republicans Are Trying to ‘Protect’ Social Security Again http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/uh-oh-republicans-are-trying-to-protect-social-security-again/?_r=0 26 comments politics
- What’s a ‘Credible Threat’ in Wisconsin? Unions. http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/whats-a-credible-threat-in-wisconsin-unions/ 6 comments politics
- Bernie Sanders Forces Republicans to State Their Views on Climate Change http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/14/bernie-sanders-forces-republicans-to-state-their-views-on-climate-change/ 18 comments politics
- Here Come the Torture Apologists http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/here-come-the-torture-apologists/?smid=re-share 73 comments politics
- In an overwhelming number of states, voters elected Republican candidates who expressly oppose the issues the same voters stand for. http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/the-tornado-election/?hp&action=click&pgtype=homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&wt.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0 769 comments politics
- Marco Rubio on the ‘Settled Science’ of Abortion http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/15/marco-rubio-on-the-settled-science-of-abortion/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 9 comments politics
- Rand Paul Walks Back the Truth http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/rand-paul-walks-back-the-truth/?_php=true&_type=blogs&ref=opinion&_r=0 21 comments politics
- There Are No Mainstream Republicans Left in North Carolina http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/there-are-no-mainstream-republicans-left-in-north-carolina/?_php=true&_type=blogs&hp&rref=opinion&_r=0 70 comments politics
- Why Darrell Issa Turned Off the Mic http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/why-darrell-issa-turned-off-the-mic/?smid=tw-share 21 comments politics
- If You Liked ‘Stand Your Ground,’ You’ll Love the Jeffersonian Project http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/04/if-you-liked-stand-your-ground-youll-love-the-jeffersonian-project/?_r=0#more-15477 9 comments politics
- The Uproar Over Insurance 'Cancellation' Letters: Republicans were apparently furious that government would dare intrude on an insurance company’s freedom to offer a terrible product to desperate people. http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/30/the-uproar-over-insurance-cancellation-letters/?smid=re-share 39 comments politics
- NYT: "Does Anyone Still Believe Anything The Obama Administration Has to Say About Surveillance?" http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/clapper-and-carney-get-slippery-on-surveillance/?_r=1 12 comments politics
- G.O.P. Helps Americans Like Government | "There’s nothing better than shutting down government to remind people of how much they need it." http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/g-o-p-helps-americans-like-government/http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/g-o-p-helps-americans-like-government/ 30 comments politics
- What Happens When the N.S.A. Gets Sloppy: All institutions make mistakes, but when an organization as vast and unsupervised as the NSA gency gets sloppy, the mistakes quickly amount to a serious abuse of government authority http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/what-happens-when-the-n-s-a-gets-sloppy/ 4 comments technology
- What Republican Voters Want - 54% said the party should become more conservative, not less. http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/what-republican-voters-want/?_r=0 175 comments politics
- What Republican Voters Want - NYTimes.com http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/what-republican-voters-want/#more-14185 5 comments politics
- What's Wrong With a 20-Week Abortion Ban? http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/whats-wrong-with-a-20-week-abortion-ban/ 4 comments politics
- The advocacy group backed by the Kochs, Americans for Prosperity, is spending more than $1 million on an advertising campaign to (yet again) discredit President Obama’s health care reform law. http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/the-koch-brothers-advertising-campaign/?nl=opinion&emc=edit_ty_20130709 4 comments politics
- The small-government, fiscally prudent Republicans in the House have voted to preserve a significant expansion of government power — and to keep spending nearly $1.6 million per prisoner per year at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp. http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/g-o-p-spendthrifts-preserve-government-expansion/?nl=opinion&emc=edit_ty_20130617 13 comments politics
- Republican Post-Mortem on Youth Vote - Why Young People Don’t Vote Republican http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/why-young-people-dont-vote-republican/?smid=go-share 13 comments politics
- Sandra Day O'Connor Regrets Bush v. Gore http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/oconnor-regrets-bush-v-gore/ 54 comments law
- Say Goodbye to the Assault Weapons Ban http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/congress-abandons-the-assault-weapons-ban/ 865 comments politics
- Gun Control and the Existing Gun Stock: A generous buyback program implemented in tandem with new point-of-sale laws could represent a step toward the “meaningful action” that President Obama called for after the Newtown shooting. http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/americas-gun-stockpile/ 3 comments politics
- From Republicans, a Parting Slap at Bob Dole and Disabled Americans http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/from-republicans-a-parting-slap-at-bob-dole-and-disabled-americans/?smid=re-share 4 comments politics
- G.O.P. Blocks Veteran Jobs Bill http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/g-o-p-blocks-veteran-jobs-bill/ 99 comments politics
- Clint Eastwood's speech to an imaginary Barack Obama was emblematic of the Republican campaign itself: creating an imaginary Obama to rail against http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/the-man-in-the-empty-chair/?smid=re-share 5 comments politics
- Tampa Speakers Ignore Bush Presidency - NYTimes.com http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/selective-memory-in-tampa/ 3 comments politics