Twenty-five years ago this week, federal agents commenced a lengthy siege of a religious compound near Waco, Texas, which ended in tragedy. As with... Read More

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Excerpted from Post-Truth by Lee McIntyre, published by The MIT Press, March 2018. Copyright: 2018 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All rights reserved.   “We... Read More

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At a cocktail party recently, I met an unemployed mathematician/computer programmer. We talked about real estate, and then she told me how she’d gotten... Read More

On the day before Thanksgiving, 1994, the US General Services Administration sent one of its staff carpenters, a man named Richard Lyons, to check... Read More