The self-proclaimed "Caliph" of Da'esh/ISIL/ISIS, Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarri, who took the name Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has...

Here’s the graphic, widely used to explain why equity outcomes require unequal treatment of different people. Benjamin Studebaker (ha...

Yeah, yeah, yeah.  I should probably write about the "big successs" we have in Northeastern Syria thanks to Vladdie Putin talking ...

How to say in Latin that our Secretary of State is pompous and dishonest as it gets? Oh yea – if one says “quid pro quo” in English, it neve...

Yes, Trump really said that.  The Syrian Kurds, who have been where they are about to be ethnically cleansed out of, are welcoming "the...

Lots of people have been huffing and puffing about whether or not the US economy will go into a recession in the near future, with Menzie Ch...

I don’t think anyone was surprised by this year’s “Nobel” prize in economics, which went to three American-based specialists in the design o...

I have almost never watched through a Trump speech to one of his rallies, but I was curious what he would say at the first one after the imp...

Trump's stonewalling on impeachment is the top story, snore.  Lower down and more important is Trump allowing Turkey to attack the Kurds...

The abstract for "Does Medicare Coverage Improve Cancer Detection and Mortality Outcomes?" by Rebecca Mary Myerson, Reginald Tuck...

This is now about three weeks old news, but it is increasingly clear that it is not clear why it happened or if it will happen again.  There...

Trump’s latest excuse for withholding arms for the Ukrainian government to defend itself against Putin’s invitations so he can extract dirt ...

Yes, Iraq.  It has not made front page headlines with so much else going on, but over the lat several days there has been an escalating seri...

I think we all know AG Barr lied about the Mueller report but permit me to go back to this : The moment Attorney General William Barr laid ...

There is a special section containing 11 columns in today's (October 2, 2019) Washington Post on the first anniversary of the murder of ...