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Democrats and Republicans dislike each other more than ever before. Donald Trump won the White House, in part, by creating an identity for his followers — distinguishing sharply between an aggrieved…

With the publication of Hillary Clinton’s campaign memoir, and the Harvey Weinstein scandal raging, it’s propitious to examine the much debated role of sexism in the last election. In 1937, only…

Imagine you’re studying the impact of food consumption on health. You’re running a huge experiment — you rounded up 100,000 people, and measured all their vitals (weight, blood pressure, good…

Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have seemingly entered a final death spiral. The whole undertaking has been perhaps the most massive legislative embarrassment in…

In an effort to provide support for his fact-free outbursts, President Trump appointed a commission to examine voter fraud. It turns out that the biggest fraud is the commission itself.…

Republicans could score with their tax reform proposals. But they almost certainly won’t. Americans would be receptive to eliminating tax breaks for big corporations and lowering taxes for the middle…

Desperately trying to quell the panic growing in their guts and in their ranks, Republicans are spinning themselves dizzy trying to explain why President Trump’s approval rating will improve before…

Sadly, we have become largely inured to misleading, dissembling and dishonest statements from President Trump. Fact-checkers catalogue them by the hundreds. Yet one lie that I consider particularly egregious has…

Newly installed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci began what will no doubt be a long series of errors, misstatements and outright lies with this whopper: Recent polls, he claimed,…

In what ways is President Trump unique? “So many,” you say. I won’t rehearse them all now, but his uniqueness also extends to the ways in which the public perceives…