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My political party is filled with sexual harassers. My industry is filled with sexual harassers. And my religion is filled with sexual harassers. But so are yours. You know what’s not filled with sexual harassers? My gender.

David Horsey: In these days of identity politics when Americans seem to be retreating into separate tribes, I refuse to tie my own sense of self to any narrow group.

Defending the principles that make this nation a beacon of liberty is exactly why journalists do what they do, says David Horsey.

Mr. Trump has been a highly unusual president in almost every way, but the amount of obsessive attention paid to his every word and deed may be what is most unusual of all, says David Horsey.

Donald Trump seems eager to be a willing dupe for the Machiavelli of Moscow, says David Horsey.

Democrats must make the case that they really understand Americans who work with cattle and crops, says David Horsey.

Donald Trump's appointees are advancing his disastrous agenda, even as his presidency falters, warns David Horsey.

David Horsey: Even Barack Obama's words are not worth $400,000 a speech, and he knows it.

Donald Trump should claim victory on the border and abandon his foolish wall, says David Horsey.

David Horsey: Trump should declare victory on immigration and forget the wall.

The Bannon-dominated White House is treating the State Department like a wayward child, says David Horsey.

David Horsey: Our government is driving away many thousands of fine people who exemplify the American Dream.

Your future, and the future of the world, now rests in the hands of a tiny team of zealots and opportunistic hacks in the White House.

If Democrats had made a different choice in the primaries last spring, Bernie Sanders would be assembling his cabinet right now.

Donald Trump is far quicker to defend himself than he is to rise to the defense of his country, says David Horsey.

Donald Trump is doing exactly what establishment Republicans have done for decades: gin up fear among Americans of modest means to get their votes, then, once elected, serve the interests of the monied class.

Stephen Bannon's role in the Trump administration gives white nationalists direct access to the White House.

Sane Republicans to do the exceptional, says David Horsey: praying for the defeat of their party's presidential nominee.

Post debate, each presidential candidate's surrogates gave the same old spin, says David Horsey. What else would you expect?

The nation's longstanding partisan divide is now a chasm between two entirely different versions of reality, says David Horsey.

The elephant and donkey had a good long run, but as symbols in the context of the 2016 presidential campaign, they are more anachronistic than accurate.

Nothing Donald Trump has done has shaken the ardor of his fans, but it has certainly shaken the GOP establishment.

Voters looking for a quick fix and simple answers are enjoying a surge of influence in Britain and the U.S., says David Horsey.

David Horsey: Will helping someone else make history be enough for Bernie Sanders, who wants a revolution?

Truth simply does not matter to Donald Trump, who prefers self-promoting fantasies, says David Horsey.

The 'financialization' of America is what's warping the economy and killing the middle class, David Hosey writes.

Donald Trump plays the media like a bagpipe: droning, loud, full of hot air and impossible to ignore.

David Horsey explores the demise of the centerfold and how it is helping Donald Trump's candidacy.

Donald Trump is uncontested choice for provocateur of the year, says David Horsey.

Donald Trump is Don Rickles with the political inclinations of Francisco Franco, says David Horsey.

The cartoon that accompanies this column is a deliberate but good-humored provocation meant to lure student activists into a discussion of what is important and not important, what is central and what is peripheral to their cause.

Liberal media is not the problem in presidential debates, glamorized media is, whether left, right or center, says David Horsey.

At last week's Debate, Hillary Clinton (with the help of Bernie Sanders) boxed Joe Biden out of the race.

While the rival gangs battle for supremacy in the Middle East, the only sure prediction is that the flood of refugees will grow.

Nuance, complexity and verifiable facts are not of particular concern to Trump fans, who long for a warrior male to lead them.

Fox News was the big winner in the GOP debate, targeting the individual vulnerabilities of each candidate.

David Horsey: Two things are at work in the reactions to the Charleston massacre on the right, and both are a bit sickening.

William Shatner's tongue-in-cheek suggestion that Seattle send some water L.A.'s way didn't go over well, says David Horsey.

"The San Francisco Mafia" dominates California's Democratic Party, says David Horsey.

Without the freedom to offend -- even in the most outrageous way -- freedom is circumscribed and tepid.

With so many Republicans running on a string of falsehoods, it would be nice to see more Democrats speaking up for a fact-based version of reality.

Joe Biden has a penchant for revealing the inconvenient truth.

Do we sideline potentially great leaders when we learn too much about candidates' fallible humanity?

A concentration of Democrats in urban areas leaves the Republicans to control rural districts and therefore the House

If both celebrities and the rest of us have no place where we can safely be our private selves, then we can no longer live with autonomy.

There appears to be no limit to the horrific things ISIS will carry out -- including beheadings -- to build their new caliphate.