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If someone can make you feel insecure, incomplete, and inadequate, they then can present themselves as the solution you need.
Bertrand Russell shows us how to recognize emotional arguments smuggled into presumed statements of fact.
A new study says that it could be centuries before millions of the classic toys submerged in the Earth's seas disintegrate.
In one generation, the climate of many American cities will experience a noticeable shift.
What’s the Boring Company going to do with all the rock it excavates while digging tunnels? Elon Musk wants to sell it to you in “LEGO-like” kits.
When a 'Rick and Morty' fan recently tweeted at Dan Harmon asking how to deal with depression, it didn’t take him long to reply.
If you're the kind of person who chronically abandons New Year's resolutions, try "temptation bundling" in 2016.
The author of The Purpose Driven Life has a theory about why Paris happened: We haven't accepted Jesus.
Thousands of families across the United States will trick-or-treat tonight in neighborhoods not their own. The cultural debate surrounding "Halloween carpetbaggers" is tied into broader debates about race, class, and wealth.
This week the New York Times published a story about Chinese investors snapping up property in the United States. Prices are rising here, but I don’t think these purchases are […]
So far we’ve had Free Market Jesus, Cowboy Jesus, Mack Daddy Jesus, and Finally Come To Jesus as front runners in the Republican primary. Now we’ve got My Jesus Is […]
What do you do when your Presidential campaign is floundering and your support has collapsed in the polls? I’m not sure. That’s why political strategists are paid the big bucks. […]
Texas Governor Rick Perry’s August 6th prayer rally, The Response: A Call to Prayer for a Nation in Crisis, has already garnered criticism for being a Christians-only affair that blurred […]
Over the coming months, I will be blogging regularly on the topic of polarization, highlighting research and trends on the nature, causes, and possible solutions to the nation’s political paralysis. […]
CNN anchor Rick Sanchez was fired after letting loose an anti-semitic tirade against Jews in the media in general, and Daily Show host Jon Stewart in particular. Here’s a transcript […]
Todd Purdum has a feature in Vanity Fair this month that is so rich with insight, color, and analysis regarding the communication challenges facing the Obama administration that I immediately […]
As the Sunday NY Times details, strategist Steve Schmidt has turned around the McCain campaign with brilliant advertising that sets the news agenda and primes voter evaluations. The former Rove […]
They say that everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. When they say that, they usually mean that they’re going to get drunk, not write a novel. But while a […]
Old politicians never die. Now, they don’t even have the courtesy to fade away. Are you ready for the has-been campaign of 2010? As the rest of the world recovers […]
Patrick Gavin at Politico highlights today Washington’s most influential twitterers. “In Washington, the social networking and microblogging service is quickly becoming part of the daily media diet — and a powerful […]
“Think defensively about how you can protect yourself from an almost inevitable attack, rather than assuming you’ll avoid harm.”
As October begins, thousands of longtime NASA employees are leaving the agency. 4000+ will exit by January 9, 2026, changing NASA forever.
In "That Book Is Dangerous," author Adam Szetela examines the rise of the “Sensitivity Era” in publishing and how outrage campaigns try to control what books authors can write and readers can read.
The UNILAD founder followed a rocky road to success — and his 2023 ADHD diagnosis proved revelatory.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will image the southern sky using the largest digital camera ever built.
One of the most original and optimistic thinkers in America sketches some big ideas about what's possible with AI in the next 25 years.
Hugo-winning author Ken Liu explores what early cinema and Chinese poetry can teach us about AI's potential as a new artistic medium.
That Nietzsche quote might not mean what you think it does.
We manipulate constantly — but few of us want to be called “manipulative.” Here, ex-Google executive Jenny Wood redefines an unfairly maligned trait.
Magicians use “change blindness” to delight audiences — and you can use it to become an excellent colleague.