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In a sometimes nasty second presidential debate, there were again several calls by the candidates for fact-checkers to referee competing statements, which we are happy to oblige. But even when Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton weren...

( Editor’s note:  Mixed into a rambling narrative about the current state of affairs in the NFL loaded with historical, music and pop culture references, Mr. Brutal makes his football picks.  Bob Gaughan makes his too. It is called “The War of 1812 Football...

Welcome to the weekend. President-elect Donald Trump is in Bedminster, New Jersey, this morning, where he’s greeting a parade of potential administration appointees. The Guardian's Ben Jacobs, who is on pool duty in New Jersey, says that there might...

In most respects, Robert Gates’s harsh weekend broadside against Donald Trump is unsurprising. Gates, a longtime Republican wise man in national security and defense circles, seems like a shoe-in to dislike Trump. Republican defense figures of all stripes...

Click here for reuse options! Fake news is the one thing Trump hasn’t claimed to have invented that he actually deserves some credit for inventing. Donald Trump tried to present himself as a paragon of journalistic virtue at Wednesday’s press conference...