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Screen grab from then-Presidential Candidate George H.W. Bush's election ad against Michael Dukakis.

How one political ad held back a generation of American inmates

Justice

The GOP’s devastating Willie Horton ad in the 1988 presidential election “taught Democrats that this was an issue where they had to be more Catholic than the Pope; tougher than tough,” says Bill Keller, editor-in-chief of the nonprofit Marshall Project.

Massachusetts Senate candidates call for truce on negative ads

Global Politics

Laughing at Election Year Politics with Lizz Winstead

Political Advertising Breaks Records

New Book Reveals the Art of Mudslinging

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