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10 March 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WE NEED YOUR HELP GUYS! - Each one of these fundraising drives is tooth and nail struggle now. We need 1 out of every 100 RSN readers to donate, to make our budget. That's a modest goal. Our readership is growing like gangbusters, but funding is very tight. It's a sign of the times. Who can throw something in the hat? Sincere thanks in advance. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Charles Pierce | Requiem for The New York Times Opinion Page  Charles Pierce, Esquire Pierce writes: "This shebeen largely has stayed out of the tiresome troll-war concerning the unruly reception that some speakers have received on various college campuses." READ MORE Recent indictments allege that a Russian 'troll farm' known as the Internet Research Agency created fake accounts to try and interfere in or influence the U.S. election. (photo: Rafe Swan/Get...

Compelling, ambitious reads you can’t afford to miss. v Monica Hesse has always found teenagers compelling. "They're at such a critical point in their lives," said Hesse, a Style reporter who also writes acclaimed novels for young adults. "You get this earnestness and openness. It's the age you become who you really are." So when she learned that six teenaged boys are running for governor of Kansas — a state with no minimum age requirement for its highest office — she flew there to chronicle the campaigns of candidates too young to vote for themselves. Hesse, who came to The Post as an intern more than 10 years ago, quickly chose 17-year-old Tyler Ruzich as her main character. A debate team captain with a poster of the U.S. Constitution hanging in his bedroom, Tyler was juggling his classes, campaign and shifts bagging groceries at the HyVee. Though lots of stories had poked fun at him and the other aspiring boy governors, Hesse described him...

The truth behind the rhetoric Trump’s many mangled comments on trade Listening to President Trump talk about trade can be a disorienting experience, so we wanted to give readers  a field guide to some of the tortured claims in Trump’s repertoire . The president tends to get worked up over the fact that the United States has a trade deficit with some countries. But he incorrectly argues, again and again, that the United States is “losing money” as a result. We are going to keep explaining this until we are blue in the face but countries do not “lose” money on trade deficits. What is actually happening is U.S. consumers are choosing to buy more from some countries than U.S. businesses are selling in those countries. Alas, Trump makes faulty trade claims so often they appear to be catching on in the White House. We also fact-checked one of his trade advisers, Peter Navarro, who claimed that the United States has the lowest trade barriers in the world....