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 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 Politicians Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Give ’em Hell Once in a While Harry Truman demonstrated that you could insult your opponents—and the voters—and still win. Seth Masket
News in Brief Back When the Republican Party Was Endorsing Feminism Before 1980, it was the Republican party that many feminists were turning to. Katie Kilkenny
News in Brief Are the Koch Brothers Undermining the Republican Party or Helping It? It all depends on your definition of party. Seth Masket