How Absurdly Arbitrary Choices About Debates are Shaping the GOP Race

How Absurdly Arbitrary Choices About Debates are Shaping the GOP Race Excluding credible candidates from the main debate is not just unfair, it helps Trump. JOHN NICHOLS

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Are Colbert’s New Politics Softer, or Just More Subtle? A political comedian reviews the first of the new Late Show. KATIE HALPER

US Intelligence Is More Privatized Than Ever Before Despite hacks, leaks, and system failures, for-profit contractors are still getting lucrative intelligence contracts. TIM SHORROCK

The University of Texas Just Handed Out a $6 Million Golden Parachute The nation’s biggest college sports program just paid its new director six million dollars to quit. DAVE ZIRIN

Three Questions About Poverty the Republican Candidates Should Answer Tonight Wednesday’s debate will be held at the library dedicated to the president who spread many of the stereotypes that are still used to demonize low-income people. MARISOL BELLO

What if You Couldn’t Talk to Your Own Landlord? New York City’s Housing Authority has only six employees dedicated to managing language services across the 400,000-tenant system, and only two of them speak Chinese. MICHELLE CHEN

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