This is Section 256 in Alabama's state constitution: Duty of legislature to establish and maintain public school system; apportionmen...

Trigger warning: if you don't want to contemplate a series of events that could put Trump in the White House, stop reading now. Trigge...

I have a proposal that could raise IQs by tens of points. My conservative friends are struggling with facts. Rush Limbaugh has warned hi...

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It's been a bizarre election. This graph might depict as simply as any how unique Trump is. As of 24 October 2012, Romney had re...

Chris Mathews asked presidential candidate Gary Johnson to name a world leader who he admired. Johnson couldn't do it. It's easy t...

We have certain expectations of our presidents. They'll go to the right schools.. About half of our presidents graduated from or atten...

"What I like about Trump," so many says, "is that he isn't politically correct. He's not afraid to say what he really...

A Conspiracy of Conspiracies Trump isn't losing. He's the victim of a media conspiracy. To be more specific, he's not actual...

Here's a very simple graph with a very simple trend line: The value it tracks over the decades is the percentage of men in the labo...

Jamelle Bouie of Slate wrote an insightful piece on how Trump's alienation of Latinos could move them solidly into the Democratic camp i...

"Sure Donald Trump said vile things but Bill Clinton did them." The first problem with this is that it assumes Don John didn...

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Well, you know what Don John, first pick of evangelicals says: "Women. They're the assault of the earth." Women won't ju...

This summer I was talking to the nephew of a former premier of a major Canadian province (equivalent to the governor of a state). His uncle ...

Fox was founded in October 1996. In the six presidential elections before that, the GOP won by an average of 5.6 points. (4 victories, two b...

2,500 years ago, Aristophones wrote a play in which the women of Athens withheld sex until the men ended the Pelopponesian War. It worked. ...

I'm that guy who is unafraid to post something political on Facebook. I know it upsets some of my friends, many of whom are conservative...

This election seems like a big deal. It is. We're exactly one month away from election day and the Republican National Committee is seri...

As Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan  is the leading Republican. Kelly Ayotte is running for re-election as the Republican Senator from New Ha...