Month: April 2015

I’m having a hard time believing that this exists. But I don’t want to repeat myself.

In 2008, Barack Obama wrapped up the delegates he needed to be the Democratic nominee at a shockingly early point in the campaign, which is something that Al Giordano and I never tired of pointing out. Our analyses of how the...

Let’s kick this off with some live music.

Scientists studying the Permian extinction event, the greatest die-off in Earth’s history, when 90% of all life in the oceans went extinct roughly 250 million years ago (along with the extinction of two thirds of all land...

Because of my job as an editor and the fact that I’m a writer, I probably do not read news articles the same way that you do. I won’t say that I skim them, exactly. What I do is read them as constructions. I look at...