An Internet search for “Father’s Day 2018” brings up a top hit: “20 Last-Minute Father’s Day Gifts That Are Amazon Prime-Eligible.”   Now, like most dads, I’m not one to complain about receiving gifts (especially when they involve a good weekend of fishing), but something is wrong when popular culture understands the obligations of Father’s Day as nothing more than a 30-minute phone call and shipping your dad something Amazon’s website said were “Dad’s Favorites.”

Like so many other things in our culture today, the commercialization of this holiday obscures its true meaning.  Father’s Day is about so much more than store sales and cheesy coffee mugs. It is, to borrow the words a resolution President Calvin Coolidge once signed on its celebration, a day “to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations,” and remind ourselves of the importance of fatherhood to our country.

The New York attorney general filed suit against President Donald Trump and his three eldest children Thursday (June 14), alleging "persistently illegal conduct" at the president's personal charity, saying Trump repeatedly misused the nonprofit organization - to pay off his businesses' creditors, to decorate one of his golf clubs and to stage a multimillion-dollar giveaway at his 2016 campaign events.

In the suit, filed Thursday morning, Attorney General Barbara Underwood asked a state judge to dissolve the Donald J. Trump Foundation.  She asked that its remaining $1 million in assets be distributed to other charities and that Trump be forced to pay at least $2.8 million in restitution and penalties.
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In the suit, Underwood noted that Trump had paid more than $330,000 in reimbursements and penalty taxes since 2016.  New York state began looking into the Trump Foundation in response to an investigation by The Washington Post.

[David] Fahrenthold covered the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, reporting on the Donald J. Trump Foundation as well as claims Trump made as the 2016 Republican nominee that he had given away millions out of his own pocket.^[9]  In May 2016, Fahrenthold began an effort to verify Trump had made these personal donations.  To solicit leads and for transparency, he periodically posted updates to Twitter via a hand-written list of charities he had contacted to ask whether they had received contributions from Trump, as well as the charities' responses.^[9]  After four months, Fahrenthold and colleagues at the Post had contacted more than 400 major charities, with only one charity confirming they had received a personal donation from Trump between 2008 and May 2016 when Fahrenthold began publicly reporting on the question.^[10]

Donald Trump continues to show a remarkable ability to bring out the worst in people — supporters and critics alike.

But here’s a stubborn and surprising fact — and one to keep in mind as midterm polls really start rolling in:  Over the past two years — meaning in the 2016 general election and then in the various gubernatorial elections and special elections that have taken place in 2017 and 2018 — the accuracy of polls has been pretty much average by historical standards.

You read that right.  Polls of the November 2016 presidential election were about as accurate as polls of presidential elections have been on average since 1972.   And polls of gubernatorial and congressional elections in 2016 were about as accurate, on average, as polls of those races since 1998.

“We have a big trade deficit with Canada.  It is a surplus.  It is not a surplus.  It is either 17 or it could be 100.  I don’t know if you saw it.  We found it.  Perhaps they were trying to show the power they have.  It is close to $100 billion a year loss with Canada.”

This is false.  Our fact-check on this Four-Pinocchio Trump claim appeared on The Washington Post website during Trump’s news conference.  The reality:  The United States has a surplus, not a $100 billion trade deficit, with Canada.

As a sizeable percentage of men age, their blood and body cells begin to jettison copies of the Y chromosome, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.  That unfortunate act of chromosomal decluttering appears to put the men at a heightened risk of Alzheimer's disease, leukemia and other disorders.

Newly released census data for city population growth through 2017 show that what I and others previously heralded as the “decade of the city” may be less valid during the waning years of the 2010s.   While most big cities are still gaining population, the rates of that gain are falling off for many of them as the nation’s population shows signs of broad dispersal.
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Yet the pervasiveness of declining big city growth, which began to become evident with last year’s numbers, reflects a broader dispersal of the nation’s population—from large metropolitan areas to smaller ones, from cities to suburbs, and from the Snow Belt to the Sun Belt.