Skeptophilia

A number of years ago, I was talking with a friend about her recent divorce from a man who was a serial philanderer and emotional abuser, an...

This past week I've been watching with frank bafflement as Donald Trump and his cronies try to steer their ship back into the harbor of ...

A lot of people I know are devastated by this weekend's swearing-in of Brett Kavanaugh to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. ...

I've found it increasingly hard to be optimistic about the future, lately. Consider what's happened in only the last two days: T...

It's become almost axiomatic that politicians lie, but what I absolutely fail to understand is why we not only cast our votes for proven...

There's this thing called the sunk-cost fallacy  -- that once a person has put a lot of time, money, effort, or emotional investment int...