Even some of my California friends had posted things like, "If you subtract California from the national vote, Trump won the popular vo...

Even an event as lovely as Christmas becomes a forum for dissent and proselytizing. It's not enough to simply let people enjoy the holid...

"There are known unknowns and unknown unknowns," Rumsfeld famously said. With the incoming Trump administration we might now say,...

The president's economic advisers released their annual report - the 2017 Economic Report of the President - today, 15 December. You can...

Fascinating article by Julie Beck at the Atlantic on our inner voice. Excerpt from early on: Inner speech, Fernyhough writes, isn’t boun...

You have heard that Usain Bolt is the world's fastest man. He ran 100 meters in a record 9.58 seconds, which works out to a speed of 23 ...

Nearly 20 years ago I was in Japan. People on the subway were staring at their lap and at first I thought they were merely avoiding eye cont...

In 2020, Kanye runs for president. The GOP laughs. He starts winning primaries. The GOP is dismissive.  He continues to win. "This ...

First, Islam is a religion. Like Christians, some Muslims are violent and anti-democracy or opposed to science and most love peace, democrac...

One of the most dangerous things about a Trump presidency is what it could mean for financial regulation. This weekend millions of America...

The economy is going to sing for at least the next couple of years. After that, its performance will depend on the extent to which Donald wa...

"My brother kept us safe," Jeb Bush said, offering a common Republican quote. "Except for 9-11," Trump said. And just l...

After the apocalypse, when we're hiding from feral animals and hominids, scraping by on 900 calories a day, going months between showers...

In retrospect, it seems like the most obvious thing in the world to master reality TV before running for president rather than wasting time...

We're about six years away from the Republicans tapping their foot impatiently, glancing at their watch, complaining to anyone who will ...

Louis Pasteur championed germ theory. He was able to collect data that rather conclusively proved that if only doctors washed their hands be...

Roughly a quarter of a century ago I dreamed up the fourth economy. Since then, the idea that we're in an entrepreneurial economy rather...

Fivethirtyeight put Donald Trump's odds at about 29%. Today, so many people are shocked because the odds were in Clinton's favor. ...

Today I went into my wife's class and held an election for 23 second graders. 7 year olds, most of them. Everyone at this San Diego city...

We all are subject to the conceit that our own intelligence and morality is superior. And it's one of the reasons that so many people ar...