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Anyone looking for an actual liar about COVID-19 shouldn't be eyeing Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert who spent 50 years protecting the public health and earning every accolade he got. If Republicans wanted to highlight bona fide lying about COVID, the guy they'd haul in for questioning would be the president, because unlike ...Read more

How could Donald Trump with bottom-scraping approval ratings decide who would represent the Republican Party in the upcoming Texas senatorial race? The primary system offers an explanation. A simple open primary system would have let the broader public choose -- and, ironically, save Republicans from a very possible loss in November.

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111 times. That's how many times Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid falling into the perjury trap Sen. Rand Paul was setting for him. Dr. Fauci was not brought in to testify because they needed to know more about what he had said and done in the past. No, he has not only testified multiple times about all of these issues in...Read more

I'm screwed.

You've had that thought. You've had that feeling: short breaths, panic, hollow chest. This is big. I may not ever be able to get out of this. No one can or will help me.

The doctor closes the door and says, "I don't like what I see in these lab results."

Firetrucks blocking my street. What's going on?...Read more

This summer, my son learned to tread water in the deep end, worked through awkward guitar chords and chased pickleballs that sailed just beyond his reach. Watching him fail, grapple with frustration, try again and improve made me realize something. Technology still can't build character; you need lived experience for that.

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"How many people said the word 'cigarettes' today?" I asked my wife, Deborah.

"Or 'book of matches,'" she said.

We were trying to figure out how America ended up with a net loss in words spoken.

A serious magazine called "Perspectives on Psychological Science" says we speak 28% fewer words every day. According to these folks, in 2005, we ...Read more

What is the death count under Donald Trump? We're not talking about loss of life in his war with Iran. We're not talking about natural deaths by aging or unpreventable diseases. We mean Americans who die because they refuse safe vaccines that Trump or his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., questions or discourages.

A recent occurrence ...Read more

Gavin Newsom is a case study of why not to run for president. For starters, his wife is the target of a Justice Department investigation, which he claims, with reason, is entirely political. And now his personal life is coming under the microscope.

The latest has to do with an affair he had 20 years ago that was a colossal exercise in bad ...Read more

Does becoming a billionaire turn one into an insufferable jerk, or is that an innate quality they bring to the position?

Big-name billionaires -- Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg -- literally flaunt their irrepressible jerkism, but the disease seems to inflict their entire class of uber-rich corporate royals. Its telltale symptoms are not their ...Read more

Researcher Katie Edwards has dedicated her career to reducing violence among LGBTQ+ and Indigenous youth, building programs that help young people feel safe and supported. Josefina Navar, deputy director of HOPE Fair Housing, works to help families across Illinois access safe and stable housing. Adam Odsess-Rubin helped found the National ...Read more

At my age, I shouldn't care so much whether the Boston Red Sox win or lose, let alone permit my daily mood to rise or fall accordingly.

It's only a game. It's supposed to be a pastime (according to AI, something that "helps make the hours pass pleasantly when you are not working"), not an obsession. There are 162 games a year and letting your...Read more

The Democratic Socialists of America use people of color as fashion accessories. Sure, they put black or brown faces on ballots, and they talk a big game about racism. But black and brown voters are not choosing their candidates. The DSA national membership chooses, and it is 85% white.

Look at the crowds. In October 2019, Reps. Alexandria ...Read more

"Ending the Backlash on LGBTQI+ Issues" is the title of the report out this week from the respected liberal think tank The Center for American Progress. As you might expect, the Center report urges Democrats to stand firm in supporting transgender soldiers and gender-transition care. But when it comes to girls' sports, it's not what you think....Read more

If Republicans get their way, McCarthyism will be back -- and here to stay.

Leading the race to the soggiest pits of ethical crud, as usual, President Donald Trump repeatedly calls Democratic Socialists of America-affiliated primary winners "hardcore, godless communists" after DSAers swept the New York elections last month.

Ideologically, ...Read more

My son was furious when I picked him up from day camp, slamming the door when he got in the car. He had been downgraded from a "yellow" swimmer to a "red" swimmer. He hadn't forgotten how to swim. The YMCA had simply changed its policy.

My son loves to swim. He likes donning goggles and swimming underwater, not to mention perfecting his ...Read more