Those painfully familiar with this column (I think that covers just about everyone) know of my penchant to lean, perhaps crutch-like, on movies, books, and songs to encapsulate or make more vivid an ...

Mendacity, Mendacity, Mendacity— the world worships at the feet of Mendacity! I am enraged and frustrated by the Mendacity that is in our world today. I read the papers, listen to people speak and I ...

The special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction told Congress Wednesday that U.S. officials have routinely lied to the public during the 18-year war by exaggerating progress reports and ...

All presidents bring their own characteristics and governing styles to the White House. Lyndon Johnson, who assumed the presidency in the most awful of circumstances, was infatuated with himself, ...

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

SOUTH BEND — South Bend Civic Theatre’s production of Jason Wells’ “Perfect Mendacity” proves that a well-told lie can divert attention from the truth. Between Wells’ precise script and Jim Geisel’s ...

Science says so, so does history. Both suggest that humans are in fact, natural born liars. Researchers believe that deception is deeply ingrained in our evolutionary roots and might have actually ...

The plaintiffs before a Scottish court last week accused Boris Johnson of “incontinent mendacity”. Max Hastings (FT Weekend, September 7) declined to sanction this trait when Mr Johnson was Brussels ...

I was raised in the Bronx; Susan Collins grew up in Caribou, Maine. She graduated from Caribou schools; I graduated from Public School 95. Caribou was once a thriving potato shipping hub – her parents ...