Those are the four numbers that define the voting landscape in Morgan County, West Virginia. Two: There are about two thousand registered Democrats in the county. Four: Four thousand independent and ...

As exaggeration has become our national pastime, American political discourse is devolving into a postmodern, fact-free wasteland. Political candidates, elected officials, activists, journalists – ...

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THE brokers who traded shares in the Tontine coffee house in 18th-century New York often resorted to stronger drink, leaving them “a little addled”, according to one contemporary account. The ...