The New York Times discovers Marco Rubio is a human from Earth

Guess who has two legs, a torso, and a bit of debt?

Marco Rubio
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In one of the most memorable Simpsons episodes, the two major presidential candidates, Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, are swapped out with world-invading, shape-shifting aliens, Kang and Kodos. The joke, of course, is that politicians are so far removed from us that they may as well be space aliens.

That's just the way things are. But in the 2016 cycle, there just might be a politician who is something resembling a human being. And The New York Times is determined — determined! — to get to the bottom of it.

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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is a writer and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His writing has appeared at Forbes, The Atlantic, First Things, Commentary Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Federalist, Quartz, and other places. He lives in Paris with his beloved wife and daughter.