Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in economics for reshaping our understanding of human motivation, once said: “No one ever made a decision because of a number. The...
This year’s best movie about a spirited band of resisters fighting an empire of evil isn’t the latest entry in the “Star Wars” franchise, but “Darkest Hour,” an extraord...
Let us now praise Ben Beach, a Washington writer and longtime friend. Like me, Ben is a confirmed statistics buff.
Unlike me, he’s disciplined. All through the year, he...
After a unique 2017, can the denizens of the D.C. swamp outdo themselves in 2018? Let’s look ahead with my annual not-totally-serious forecast:
January: With job approva...
It was momentous, an achievement beyond belief: The inevitable election of Hillary Clinton as president had been averted, leftism was down on its knees and the issue was...
As a functional obsessive-compulsive, I’m never happier than at year’s end when I get to make lists. Herewith, my picks for the most important stories of 2017:
This year...
Last July, officials of the Wolf administration came to Erie to deliver $2.6 million to begin refining concepts and doing preliminary engineering on a crucial piece of r...
An epidemic of opioid abuse is ravaging the United States and, as we look for ways to respond to it, some see cannabis as part of the solution, while others see it as pa...
You are what you eat. It’s an expression with roots in the early 1800s that has come to mean if you consume what’s good for you, you will be healthy, and if you don’t, w...
So what’s new?
Certainly not the late J. Edgar Hoover’s antipathy toward Dr. Martin Luther King as revealed again in the recent discovery of a long-ago letter from the F...
