Rebecca Coffey
Why people believe in genuinely fake news
In July, The Washington Post estimated that, as president, Donald J. Trump has told more than 20,000 lies. In a press conference on Aug. 8, Trump betrayed the truth yet again and he got called on it.
The president gloated about his administration having passed the Veterans Choice Act, a piece of legislation that made it possible for veterans to use their government health benefits at providers other than VA hospitals. In reality, it was signed into law by former President Barack Obama.
Clearly, it didn’t work
Were Sigmund Freud alive today, he might have sided with the Vermont legislature in its push against gay conversion therapy
As of July 1, Vermont law will bar mental-health providers from trying to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity. Vermont has become the fifth state to place limits on what's called “gay conversion therapy.” The District of Columbia and the city of Cincinnati also prohibit its use...
Good cop, bad cop
One local writer is all too familiar with the issues about police behavior that surround the Ferguson demonstrations. It's the violent police officers who escalate the issue, and law enforcement professionals who work with honor also find themselves hurt by this culture of conflict
I grew up white in a suburb of St. Louis that's just a few miles from Ferguson, where on Aug. 9 a policeman shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager. Forty or so years earlier, police killed a teenage neighbor of mine with what they claimed was...