$10 trillion around the globe is now invested in negative interest rate bonds. Investors are actually paying countries to keep their money,...

More than once conservative friends have told me that there is no real difference between Trump and Clinton. To test that hypothesis, consid...

Couldn't a lot of this casino owner's campaign behavior be explained by a series of drunken double or nothing bets with other billio...

Trump is against free trade, big corporations, and military intervention. He's even contemptuous of the military, both the judgment of g...

Trump makes two kinds of statements, both with great confidence. The one kind can immediately be proven false (this from ABC ): The othe...

From Datacalysm  by Christian Rudder: On OkCupid, one of the easiest ways to compare a black person and a white person (or any two people ...

During the first market economy of roughly 1300 to 1700, desire had to be made legitimate. This was one important reason that church refo...

Some Sanders supporters don't see the difference between Trump and Clinton. Remember the Nader supporters who didn't see the differe...

This week there's a big scandal because hackers - most likely Russia the FBI says - have revealed private emails from within the Democra...

If Americans are frightened by Trump's oratory, Trump will win. What are they afraid of in his eyes? Crime, illegal immigration, and the...

On occasion, we stumble across something so elegant that it makes us stop. We suddenly see order in what we once thought of as random activi...

Reza Aslan, in his book on Islam, is just one of many writers to claim that in cultures that have an oral tradition, with people who don...

Just last week, many of the country’s tech leaders signed a l etter arguing “Trump would be a disaster for innovation . "  Signatories...

The S&P 500 is at an all-time high. Optimists point to this as proof that things are great, have never been better. Pessimists point to ...

OKCupid releases fascinating data about how Americans present themselves. As it turns out, we neatly fit into stereotypes. Conservatives li...

Economic progress is at odds with the democratic process in a way that's rarely mentioned. One sign of economic progress is choice and...

Trump easily leads among old white men. So, because this country has given women (in 1920 when women in every state gained the righ...

Ramadan ended last week. Observant Muslims change their behavior for a month, fasting and praying. Each Sunday, observant Christians step ou...

Today's job report announced an additional 281,000 jobs (the last two months were revised down by 6,000 and the initial estimate for Jun...

Republicans and Democrats alike have fallen for the biggest ruse in American history: everyone thinks that Trump is actually running for pre...