News in Brief Debunking the GOP Candidates’ Anti-Immigration Stance It’s built on lies and paranoia—let’s debunk the Republicans’ three central immigration myths. Ana Aparicio
News in Brief We’re Live-Blogging the GOP Presidential Debate Political scientists Julia Azari and Seth Masket are on hand to weigh in on the Republican showdown. Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief GOP: Generating Outsize Pollution? New research finds air pollution levels are higher in states with Republican governors. Tom Jacobs
News in Brief Scoring the Body Language of the GOP Debate A body-language expert evaluates the Republican presidential field. Jared Keller
News in Brief American Flag Imagery Benefits Republicans It is indeed a grand old flag for the Grand Old Party. Tom Jacobs
News in Brief The GOP Is Botching the Hispanic Vote The Republican National Committee canceled the only debate scheduled to air on Spanish-language television. Kate Wheeling
News in Brief America Will Never Embrace Gun Control Under Barack Obama Why Obama's election also yielded a strange new obsession with gun rights. Jared Keller
News in Brief The Vatican and the GOP: What Republican Casuistry Says About Pope Francis Compassion has often counted as a "maverick" quality in the Holy See. Now Republicans are calling it political. Ted Scheinman
News in Brief On Climate Change, the GOP Is an Outlier A recently published survey finds eight of nine major conservative parties around the world at least admit climate change is a problem. Tom Jacobs
News in Brief The Other Thing That Happened Last Thursday There was a game-changing event in the presidential election, but it wasn't the Republican debate. Seth Masket