If you hear a politician or salesperson or, for that matter, opinion columnist invoke common sense, beware. When people say a particular view on immigration, foreign poli...
Natural selection played a trick on Homo sapiens. It gave us the vital skill of empathy — the ability to imagine ourselves into other people’s minds and feelings. But it ...
One of the few bipartisan traditions left in American politics is hating on the presidential debates. They’re never substantive enough, the moderators always intervene to...
A new study published last week in Science makes a compelling case that people with long COVID have a chronic imbalance in their immune response. The findings don’t expla...
Suppose that when you did something bad, you could split off another you to deal with it, basically by dying and taking the punishment with it. You can't.
But you could i...
You’ve likely seen the funny electronic signs on highways around the country: “Drive Hammered, Get Nailed,” “Don’t Drive Intexticated,” or, for Chicago hot dog fans, “No ...
‘Tis the season of wavering New Year’s resolutions. And 2024 might be an especially hard time to keep to a new diet because there are so many contradictory claims — and s...
If you were forced to guess the one political issue that will decide the 2024 U.S. election based on sheer volume of news coverage, you might pick inflation or immigratio...
Airplanes seem to be coming apart in midair. An Alaska Airlines flight was disrupted when the door plug on a section of its fuselage broke off after takeoff. The airplane...
The latest war between Israel and Hamas is the biggest conflagration in the Middle East today, but sparks and fires are emerging across the region. Each provides ample op...
