NYT: The humor website Funny or Die on Wednesday began streaming a 50-minute comedy that finds Mr. Depp portraying the businessman turned politician, full-blown comb-over and all. Kept a secret for months — no small task in Hollywood —… Continue reading

Dylan Matthews for Vox. Sanders is the most vocal exponent of this critique currently, but he’s hardly the only one. At least since the progressive movement of the early 1900s, a prominent strain of American liberalism has identified the undue… Continue reading

Justin Miller for TAP.

CPI reports.

MSNBC: Bush’s campaign quickly stepped in to clarify the comments, saying that the candidate was restating his old position and did not favor reversing the court’s decision. “He’s not advocating for additional restrictions on the ability of an organization… Continue reading

Zach Carter: “If [Clinton] takes the money, she gets hit with this McCarthyism of the left, this guilt by association, even though there is no evidence that taking this money has had any impact on her policies,” former Rep. … Continue reading

Greg Sargent: I’m skeptical of Sanders’s case that Obama could have gotten a lot more than he did or that his explanation accounts for why Obama did achieve what he did. I’m also skeptical of Sanders’s case that he can… Continue reading

He’d hold a constitutional convention to overturn Citizens United, but favors unlimited contributions with disclosure. Huh?  If you allow unlimited contributions, you allow Super PACs (unless his constitutional amendment would allow only candidates to accept unlimited contributions—an incumbency protection measure… Continue reading

Politico: The 100 biggest donors of 2016 cycle have spent $195 million trying to influence the presidential election ― more than the $155 million spent by the 2 million smallest donors combined — according to a POLITICO analysis of… Continue reading