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This week, for the first time, the progressive senator from Vermont emerged in first place in a national CNN poll, showing him 3 points ahead of former Vice President Joe Biden, though within the margin of error. For months, Sanders has been hovering around 20 percent in the RealClearPolitics national polling average, but some good recent national and early-state polls are putting him on an

Like Trump, both men are beneficiaries of our hollowed-out political parties.

The Bloomberg–Bernie battle is almost like a comic book come to life. The two combatants cover almost every cliché on the right-wing scorecard.

The Right couldn’t have invented a better candidate than Bernie Sanders. In 1971, he was kicked out of a commune for talking too much. In 1987 (!), he recorded

The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to decide on a fast-track basis the fate of the landmark Affordable Care Act, following a federal appeals court ruling that its central health insurance mandate is unconstitutional.

By refusing to step in now, the justices likely blocked the third Supreme Court test of the controversial health care law from an election-year docket already teeming with

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97%, whose attack on Donald Trump during Thursday’s Republican presidential debate in South Carolina for his “New York Values” drew a pointed response from the Manhattan-based GOP front runner, issued an apology to New Yorkers tonight.

The apology, however, was not for using the term “New York Values,” but instead “to the millions of Ne