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Tariffs are a good example of the fact-free abandon of today’s Republican Party.

A high level recap of how European powers built out their empires in the century before the Great War.

A disconcerting review of how far private security, as in policing not supervised by a state, has gone in the US and abroad.

Two economists depict degrowth studies as analytically weak and advocating political infeasible ideas.

Wolf Ruck continues to assert his ‘right to rewild’ after city officials have twice forcibly cut his grass

The vice president says she is a gun owner. Here’s why it shouldn’t be a surprise.

Harvey Mansfield’s book on “manliness” prefigured JD Vance’s musings about “childless cat ladies” by nearly two decades.

The media is still pursuing the appearance of fairness by treating true and false, normal and outrageous, as equally valid

Lovable Mop-top Orgy Participants On July 26, 1968, Mick Jagger flew from Los Angeles to London for a birthday party thrown in his honor at a hip new Moroccan-style bar called the Vesuvio Club—“one of the best clubs London has ever seen,” remembered proprietor Tony Sanchez. Under black lights and beautiful tapestries, some of London’s […]

Less than a minute after the first words were exchanged between officers and Hill, an officer roughly pulled Hill from the car and forced him to the ground. Hill was cited for careless driving.

The sordid story of two ranchers who conspired to tamper with rain gauges on the Colorado-Kansas plains to get millions in false insurance claims

It's not enough for some journalists and influencers to boycott the social media site formerly known as Twitter. Everyone needs to bail on it at once.

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Both Trump and Harris unveiled a mix of new economic policies last week. Only some were appalling.

A labor-forward, no-nonsense style of Democratic campaigning is emerging in the Plains and Midwest. It’s unclear if it’ll actually work.

Using your body’s data to pay or breeze through security is like unlocking your phone—sort of.

The breathless madness of fear

Sabermetrics is the original or blanket term for sports analytics, the empirical analysis of baseball, especially the development of advanced metrics based on baseball statistics that measure in-game activity. The term is derived from the movement's progenitors, members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), founded in 1971, and was coined by Bill James, who is one of its pioneers and considered its most prominent advocate and public face.

We here at The Athletic Philadelphia are thrilled to have our baseball coverage firing on all cylinders with spring training under way. Our staff is dedicated to providing you with the highest quality Phillies coverage available. One thing we will not shy away from is analytic content. In the 21st...

In the 1970s the general aviation aircraft industry was selling 15,000 or more aircraft a year but that number fell by a factor of about 10 in the early 1980s. What happened? One factor was a massive increase in tort liability as discussed in my paper with Eric Helland, Product Liability and Moral Hazard: Evidence […]

Joy doesn't work.

Not to be confused with gin-and-tonic masculinity.

"Autistic people have always been here in large numbers," says the author of "Neurotribes," "and they need help"

Imagine a company you recently applied to work at used an artificial intelligence program to analyze your application to help expedite the review process. Does that creep you out? Well, you’re not alone.Consumer Reports recently released a national survey finding that Americans are uncomfortable...

Exploring the Shift from Traditional Money to Cooperative and Sustainable Value Systems

To prepare for an even hotter future, designers today could learn from the past.