More Hillary excuses are dished up

New York magazine’s Hillary Clinton cover story — “She’s okay. How about you?” — asks many questions over 10 pages but delivers few insights.

Instead, it recounts the ways the candidate — who the New York Times gave an 85 percent chance of winning when the polls opened — lost.

Author Rebecca Traister blames sexism for Clinton’s loss, quoting Democratic strategist Jess McIntosh: “The fact that that woman lost to the least qualified human being on the planet really kind of drove it home.”

Time magazine’s cover story, “The Weight Loss Trap,” revolves around the diet message: One size fits one.

But first some facts: 71 percent of American adults are overweight and nearly 40 percent clinically obese. This obesity, in turn, causes more “early preventable deaths” in the US than smoking.

So what are the 155 million overweight Americans to do?

First and foremost, seek a per- sonalized diet rather than a trendy one.

“The best diet for you is very likely not the best diet for your next-door neighbor,” author Alexandra Sifferlin reports.

“The Addicts Next Door” appears in The New Yorker’s Fiction Issue — but, sadly, it’s not fiction.

It’s reporter-at-large Margaret Talbot’s 15-page account of opioid abusers in West Virginia, the state with the highest overdose death rate in the US.

How bad is it? “When some- one under 60 dies and the cause of death isn’t mentioned in the paper, locals assume that it was an overdose,” Talbot writes.

She learns many West Virginians self-medicate to counter anxiety, depression and posttraumatic stress from sexual abuse or child abuse.

Things are so out of control that Narcan is considered an enabler rather than a lifesaver.

“The thing about Narcan is that it kind of makes it OK to overdose,” a paramedic tells Talbot.