Why do we kill? It's a question unlikely to ever be answered to any degree of satisfaction, but one I found myself asking the other day after hearing about the botched execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike. In reading about the story, I learned that Pike and I are almost the same ...
Since President Donald Trump displays a ferocious disdain for any suggestion that he could be wrong about anything, I hope he will not try to consult the AI fact-checker he has unleashed against himself. Last week, the White House unveiled America.gov, a search tool it declared to be no less ...
Is the federal government's history of enormous deficits proof that it can keep up the borrowing? Some people think so, and legislators sure act that way. Federal debt held by the public now equals the size of the annual economy — and is growing. Yet investors continue buying Treasury ...
In 1992, Bill Clinton won the presidential election partly on the basis of his campaign's false accusation that George H.W. Bush had overseen "the worst economic performance since the Great Depression." Or so claimed Clinton's running mate Al Gore. James Carville, chief campaign adviser to ...
For months, ideological enforcer journalists who intensely labor to keep left-wing elitist media outlets as leftist and anti-Trump as possible have been panicking over the Ellisons getting their hands on CNN and turning it into — cue siren noises — another CBS News. Paramount has been ...
As predictions of a blue wave swell, it's worthwhile to remember that polls are sometimes wrong, that surveys have tended to undercount Trump voters (though they have been better in midterms), that professional prognosticators can err, and that Allan Lichtman is only right when he's lucky. And ...
