Now they tell us. "We were badly misled about the event that changed our lives." So reads the headline on Princeton professor Zeynep Tufekci's March 16 article in The New York Times. The event was, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the bad misleading came from scientists who purposefully ...

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Jew. Then ...

Tens of thousands of pages related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy were released this week. Not to spoil it, but he dies in the end. In the process of reviewing the documents, it is apparent that the government kept a lot private because the names of CIA agents in the ...

This week, the Trump administration released tens of thousands of documents regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Speculation about the "real explanation" for JFK's assassination has been an enormous cottage industry for decades; as of November 2023, a Gallup poll showed ...

If an investment yields stagnant or negative returns despite increased funding, the rational thing to do is back off. This logic rarely applies in government, but we're in a unique moment. The U.S. Department of Education — which has long exemplified the sunk-cost fallacy with past ...

Confirmation of President Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has been held up in the Senate. Word now is that hearings will be held next week. What's holding things up? Pressure from Democrats, of course. If anyone is qualified to be America's ambassador to ...