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Kids can be mean. It’s usually not the parents. Kids pick up cultural cues, trying to figure out how most people get along in the world, and everything on-line and on television can overwhelm whatever the parents tell the kid is the right thing to do...

For the last two decades, the rules of political reporting have been blown up. And I’ve cheered at every step along the way. Not for me the mourning over the dismantling of the old order, all those lamentations about the lost golden era of print newspapers...

Nyquist has won his seven races, including four prestigious Grade 1s, by a combined 15 lengths - an average of just over two lengths. On the flip side, the same trend erects serious barriers for Republicans trying to grab Senate seats in Oregon, Iowa...

It was January 1975, and the Watergate Babies had arrived in Washington looking for blood. The Watergate Babies—as the recently elected Democratic congressmen were known—were young, idealistic liberals who had been swept into office on a promise to clean...

Political scientist Matt Dickinson intended to spend his sabbatical writing the definitive work on the Obama White House staff. Instead, his leave year was dedicated to chronicling one of the most improbable candidacies for the American presidency. ...