Profile Log In/Sign Up Saved Articles Logout
Help keep Salon independent
Profile Login/Sign Up
Saved Articles Logout

Topic: Opening Shot (page 13)

Alex Pareene surveys the burgeoning and bloated world of political news and opinion and explains the day's most essential story in Opening Shot, posted by 8:30 a.m. each weekday. Bookmark this page; follow @pareene on Twitter.

Rick Perry

Rick Perry's flat tax Hail Mary

Steve Kornacki
Mitt Romney, Rick Perry

This is really the best the GOP can do?

Steve Kornacki
Obama

Barack Obama's OWS problem

Steve Kornacki
Image for Why Mitt Romney is not a moderate

Mitt Romney's no "moderate"

Steve Kornacki
Rush Limbaugh

Mitt has a Rush Limbaugh problem

Steve Kornacki
Image for The 6 reasons why Herman Cain (supposedly) can't win

The front-runner everyone knows is doomed

Steve Kornacki
Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry

The night Rick Perry became an afterthought

Steve Kornacki
Image for The absolutely ridiculous resurgence of Herman Cain

Just how much damage can Herman Cain do?

Steve Kornacki
Rick Perry

The marginalization of Rick Perry

Steve Kornacki
Barack Obama

The "nuclear" politics of stalled unemployment

Steve Kornacki
Image for The logic of the media's Christie fixation

The logic of Christie obsession

Steve Kornacki
Rick Santorum

The Republican no one wants to love

Steve Kornacki
Chris Christie

How to scare Chris Christie away

Steve Kornacki
Chris Christie

The perils of underestimating "Big Boy"

Steve Kornacki
Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry

The GOP's nuisance candidate syndrome

Steve Kornacki

Fearless journalism
in your inbox every day

Sign up for our free newsletter

• • •