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As news of the horrifying terrorist attacks in Paris was breaking, former New York Times reporter Judith Miller became the queen of the Twitter hot takes: “Now maybe the whining adolescents at our universities can concentrate on something other than their need for ‘safe’ spaces...” she wrote.  

Hillary Clinton didn’t hold back from drawing sharp distinctions between her positions and the more liberal ones of Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley in Saturday night’s second Democratic debate. But Clinton’s performance wasn’t just about criticizing her Democratic opponents. It also was a clear preview of the campaign that Clinton is planning to run in the general election—with a message centered around bolstering the middle-class, a vigorous defense of Obama’s accomplishments, and sharp partisan attacks. Читать дальше...

The 2016 presidential primaries were originally heralded for the number of talented, credible candidates with a plausible path to the presidency.

Bernie Sanders has set a high goal for himself. He wants to unleash nothing less than a political revolution in America that overthrows the power of big money. In pursuit of this goal, he’s launched a highly energetic and lofty grassroots movement. But it could be that as a candidate he’s a bit too lofty for his own good. 

In professional wrestling, a cheap pop is a way for a wrestler to get an easy cheer from the crowd, often by dropping the name of the city or a local sports team. At the CBS debate, Clinton mentioned Iowa or Des Moines at least three times while talking about three different issues (none of which were corn). 

Democrats have not once taken issue with the way the CBS debate moderators have posed questions. 

Strap in and prepare to have an entire East Texas highway stand’s worth of fireworks explode six inches from your face.

Tonight, Sanders said that he’s from “a state that has virtually no gun control.” That, he argued, put him in a good position to talk to the 60 or 70 percent of Americans who want tougher gun control regulations. But his ideas about states with varying levels of firearm restrictions are fundamentally flawed, especially in light of Friday’s attacks in Paris.

For the first time (to my knowledge) in the history of presidential debates, a presidential candidate has been challenged with a tweet. CBS just pulled a tweet hitting Hillary Clinton for implying a connection between donations she received from Wall Street and the work she did to rebuild New York City post-9/11 as a senator, and asked her to respond. (She said that the tweeter’s interpretation of her remarks was wrong.)  

This satirical clip was made by one of the best Viners of the election, Todd Dracula.

On Saturday, candidates Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O’Malley met in Des Moines, Iowa, for the second Democratic presidential debate. In the wake of the terrorist attacks on Paris, the focus of the debate shifted at the last minute to foreign policy. Read the highlights below and follow along in real time with our staff at Minutes.