A battle for the soul of America — I’ve been a pundit. I’ve been a scientist. And I can tell you, from personal experience, that the two jobs could not be more different. While some scientists play the role of pundits, it often comes at a cost to their work as scientists. …

Unreal Constructs Produce Real Harm — A population pyramid is a basic presentation in demography, the study of populations. By convention, it divides a population by sex (not gender; that’s something else) and uses stacked bars to show the number of people in a population by age and sex. …

There’s so much more than “Red versus Blue” The American political system, a “first past the post” system of elections, leads to unnatural division in American politics. Republican and Democratic, Red and Blue, one of the few beliefs all share is they have a fundamental disagreement about core American values…

Knowing their bias — and your own — is a key to finding the truth Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity…

Part One: The Surrender of Sydney Powell The evidence continues to accumulate that the Trump movement, and the Republican Party, are in failure mode. Although there will always be a place for a Conservative party in American politics, the collapse of Donald Trump and the extremist MAGA movement is so…

Clearly, it's not to the advantage of the Palestinians Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Salvor Hardin (Isaac Asimov, Foundation) HAMAS began as an Islamic charity supported by the State of Israel. No, really. The story of how a charity could turn into a military force dedicated…

It’s time to formalize the reality Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana), House Minority Leader, announced Thursday night that he was dropping out of the race for Speaker of the House, one day after he won a bare majority of the Republican caucus in a secret vote the day before to become the…

There’s Madness to Their Method Last Saturday, the United States dodged a bullet. In a month and a half, we will be facing the same situation, with all that implies, and the House is in shambles. Keven McCarthy, a Trump-supported conservative who had the temerity to talk to Democrats and…

How Much It Will Cost Him Remains To Be Seen New York Judge Judge Arthur Engoron ruled last week that former President Donald Trump and the Trump Organization deceived banks, insurers, and others by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth. This conviction for fraud certifies, legally, a…