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Young Americans are actually not becoming more progressive.

For years, it has been said that Republicans have a “young-people problem” — the party, it was assumed, just couldn’t attract young voters. Yet despite predictions it would experience an “historic trouncing” in 2016, among young voters, 37% of young adults voted for Trump…

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Be careful what you wish for. What would President Pence do?

With less than a week until Christmas, Special Counsel Robert Mueller still isn’t spilling any tea about how close his investigation is to President Donald Trump. But as the number of cooperating witnesses grows in his wide-ranging investigation into the election…

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Is it time to drop the ‘LGBT’ from ‘LGBTQ’?

The case for a new term that describes all sexual minorities Frank kameny, the last century’s greatest gay-rights activist, filed the first-ever Supreme Court petition challenging discrimination against homosexuals. He led some of the first gay-rights demonstrations. He was the first…

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Teenage trolls are screwing up LGBT scientific studies.

Scientists studying LGBT youth may have a big problem on their hands: meddling kids. More specifically, meddling kids who think it’s funny to identify as gay or lesbian on surveys—and who then give exaggerated responses to other questions about…