Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.
As a parent and a citizen I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over...
We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and...
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The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new...
For the past eight years the right has been better at working the refs. Now...
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant ' it no longer...
The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the...
Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick...
If newspapers were a baseball team they would be the Mets - without the hope...
Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I...
I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics...
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are...
We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics...
The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined...
The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the...
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized...
A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason...
I do love science fiction but it's not really a genre unto itself it always...
If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat there is no consensus of...