From PT Barnum traveling the country dazzling audiences with "genuine fakes," to the modern day Internet, Americans love a good lie.
They excite us and at times elicit outrage. Often, though, in the modern age, they show how little we really know about a subject.
But even at that, we still love them -- and share them wildly.
Three particular lies circulate the Internet, ones that have become part of the collective wisdom of political arguments.
Is there a way to find more consistent and sustainable funding for administering local, state and federal elections in California?
The search for those answers is underway at California Forward.
Right now, California counties are the sole entities responsible for funding and administering elections. However, how these elections are funded is varied and contentious.
Criticism of Israel and Zionism is increasingly being considered 'the new anti-Semitism.' BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) supporters claim that conflating anti-Israel and anti-Zioinist sentiments with anti-Semitism unconstitutionally silences dissent and abridges freedom of speech, and dangerously conflates the state of Israel with all Jewish people.
CNN's Republican Debate was probably one of the poorest managed prime time debates, with moderators having a difficult time controlling both the front-runners and those still fighting on the fringe.
The early debate was a real, thought provoking debate, but in the end it won't matter because each of these candidates is becoming more and more desperate to make headway as time passes -- and it is unlikely that any of them will make a splash on the big stage in the final debates.
For the second time, Democrats blocked an attempt by the GOP to reject the Iran nuclear deal as Minority Leader Harry Reid declared it's time to move on to other things.
The second round of the Republican primary debates will be held Wednesday night at the Ronald Reagan library in Simi Valley, California. The field of Republican presidential candidates stands at 16 after Rick Perry suspended his campaign.
The 2016 election cycle is estimated to spend $5 billion, enough to build Trump World Tower fifteen times. Already the candidates and their Super PACs are flush with huge sums of cash; Clinton is almost at $70 million and Bush is over $120 million.
While a founding member of NATO, France has not taken part in the NATO coalition against the Islamic State. Instead, it has chosen to press the attacks separately under its own command structure -- until today, that meant only in Iraq.
The federal government is now two weeks away from experiencing the second government shutdown in two years if it does not pass a continuing resolution (CR) by October 1.
In 2013, the cause of the government shutdown was a tussle between the Republican-led House and the Democrat-controlled Senate over funding for the Affordable Care Act.