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This chart, which doesn’t get nearly enough attention, shows the change in first-year presidential approval ratings from copartisans. That is, it shows Democratic approval of Democrats and Republican approval of Republicans: After an admittedly wild first year in which he disappointed...

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on Thursday that people close to President Trump told him during the campaign that Trump has "early stages of dementia." During MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Scarborough said Trump is "completely detached from reality." "You have somebody inside the White House that the...

In 2016, three Arkansas men vandalized a local mosque with racist graffiti. Recently, one of these men, Abraham Davis, was facing years in prison for failing to pay the fine for that crime. That's when the community from the same mosque cut him a cheque. As It Happens host Carol Off spoke with...

Trump dissolves voter fraud commission President Trump on Wednesday dissolved a controversial commission that was set up to investigate his unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election. The White House said Trump decided to disband the Presidential Advisory...

Like many conservatives, I had grave concerns about curtailing the New York City police department’s controversial tactic of stopping and frisking potential suspects for weapons. I was inclined to defer to the police when they protested that they needed the option to stop, question, and frisk...

The Kushner Companies, formerly led by White House adviser Jared Kushner, is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission over its use of the EB-5 visa program. The program offers permanent U.S. resident status in exchange for large investments in the U.S. and the Kushner...

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has recalled for questioning at least one participant in a controversial meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in June 2016, and is looking into President Trump’s misleading claim that the discussion focused on adoption, rather than...

Trump trusted Bannon the most, and that could now cost him very dearly There are few things more painful than when hot love turns cold. For a long time, Donald Trump and Steve Bannon were hard to separate. The former naval officer was one of just a few who genuinely believed the reality...

President Donald Trump’s decision to brag in a tweet about the size of his “nuclear button” compared with North Korea’s was widely condemned as bellicose and reckless. The comments are also part of a larger pattern of odd and often alarming behavior for a person in the nation’s highest office...

Full disclosure: I'm an old white guy, who grew up in an environment with a lot of prejudiced people. I like to think that I don't carry that baggage, but sometimes, I realize that it's still there, waiting. Meagan and her husband drove in from St. Louis Friday. They were delayed and got to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jubilant Republicans pushed on Tuesday to the verge of the most sweeping rewrite of the nation's tax laws in more than three decades, a deeply unpopular bill they insist Americans will learn to love when they see their paychecks in the new year. President Donald Trump cheered...

In an old city bar That is never too far From the places that gather The dreams that have been In the safety of night With its old neon light It beckons to strangers And they always come in And the snow it was falling The neon was calling The music was low And the night Christmas Eve And here...

"A president who'd all but call a senator a whore is unfit to clean toilets in Obama's presidential library or to shine George W. Bush's shoes: Our view With his latest tweet, clearly implying that a United States senator would trade sexual favors for campaign cash, President Trump has shown he...

Since a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, news developments have continued at a torrid pace. If you are just catching up on the aftermath of the weekend’s events, or are overwhelmed by the volume of news, here is an overview of The New York Times’s coverage...

Apparently, for flat Earth people, hurricanes and Foucault pendulums don't exist.

So Dave, tell us about the Foucault pendulum and the Coriolis effect (as evidenced by hurricanes) on a flat Earth. How do those work?

Dave, the Coriolis effect is what makes hurricanes. How do you get those without a rotating Earth? And how does a Foucault pendulum work on a flat Earth? " As you seem to understand, it's not possible.

Dave? Explain how a Foucault pendulum works, and why we have a Coriolis effect.