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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's challenge to a reporter to find examples of the president expressing love for his country turned out to be a softball. A Washington Post fact-checker found enough examples to award Giuliani's assertion "four Pinocchios."

Questioning Obama’s patriotism is just getting started

May 23, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

Was Rudy Giuliani playing a race card when he accused President Barack Obama of not loving America? No way, the former New York mayor said later, but his litmus test...

The Democratic Party once owned working-class whites, but when those blue-collar workers' fortunes started shifting, many defected to the Republicans.

How Democrats lost white voters

May 23, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

While talking to black and white Republicans recently about the Grand Old Party's outreach efforts to voters of color, I wondered: What are Democrats doing to reach working-class whites? Much...

Rep. Mia Love is the first black Republican woman elected to Congress.

Can the GOP become a less-white party?

May 23, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

Republicans are starting to show some color again. The midterm election that swept Republicans into control of both houses of Congress also brought in the party's largest group of black...

Jon Stewart announced Wednesday he will be leaving "The Daily Show" at the end of the year.

‘Fake news’ never looked so good

May 23, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

"Did I die?" That's how host Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" opened his program on the evening after he announced that he was walking away from it after 16...

Doug Sterner, a Vietnam vet, looks up information on a military medal winner in a folder containing medal documents he has collected.

A surprising defender of Brian Williams

May 23, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

If anyone would be upset with Brian Williams, I figured that it would be Doug Sterner. The decorated Vietnam veteran has made a career out of tracking down heroes who...

While strong majorities across the board support vaccination, about one-third of Republicans and also of independents say parents should make the decision about immunizations, compared with 22 percent of Democrats, a new Pew poll found.

‘Anti-vaxxing’ pits politics and public health

May 23, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

Is support for childhood vaccinations a partisan issue? Polls indicate that it isn't, yet Republicans appear to be getting stung by this needle more than Democrats are. The question has...

Comedian Chris Rock said he no longer performs on college campuses because the students are too easily offended by jokes.

College kids can’t take a joke

August 21, 2019 at 5:27 p.m.

Chris Rock has stopped performing on college campuses, he said in a recent interview, because college audiences are getting "way too conservative." "Not like they're voting Republican," he said in...

Anti-war, pro-troops in film and in life

August 21, 2019 at 5:27 p.m.

I finally went to see Clint Eastwood's Iraq War movie, "American Sniper," after a partisan culture war broke out around it. If we had debated with this much gusto before...

As the 2016 campaign for president heats up, potential GOP candidates are increasingly blaming President Barack Obama for income inequality.

GOP’s new motto: Every silver lining has its cloud

August 21, 2019 at 5:26 p.m.

Politics sometimes leads to poetic justice. Sarah Palin can no longer mock President Barack Obama's use of a teleprompter after her own teleprompter froze midspeech. The calamity occurred at Republican...

GOP tries a local yokel approach

August 21, 2019 at 5:25 p.m.

During her live, nationally televised Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, inserted a cute story from her childhood that seemed...

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