Kylie is the Global Live Pages Editor, leading a team providing real-time multimedia coverage of the biggest breaking stories worldwide. She previously worked on the UK Breaking News team, and spent ...

A guy I knew in college once told me, as I struggled to make a point in a dorm lounge argument, that I had “the verbal acuity of shampoo.” The put-down was so devastating that it immediately ended ...

The buzzy new publication devoted to “libbing out” reprises the mistakes of the longstanding alliance between neoliberalism and Beltway journalism. Jerusalem Demsas, editor of the newly launched ...

The quote came from an essay titled "Real Patriots Ask Questions," which Sagan co-authored with Ann Druyan, his widow and frequent collaborator. What's Undetermined Because of the nature of the ...

The history of online discourse is essentially the history of linguistic compression. I’m a member of possibly the last generation of Chinese fluent in the language of forums and blogs. After the ...

To strip the power from an emotional abuser, you must recognize their argument tactics for what they are: logical fallacies. Narcissists tend to vastly overestimate the accuracy of their own beliefs.

The proposed Constitution Pipeline that would carry natural gas from Pennsylvania to a regional interconnection point in eastern New York would be a huge mistake for many reasons, many of which ...

The world's billionaires are richer than ever, according to Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's wealthiest people. The 39th annual version is out now and includes 3,028 billionaires, the most ...

Since last week’s newsletter offered a favorite argument for the existence of God, it’s only fair to balance the scales by considering a strong argument against religious faith, against the existence ...

The Supreme Court’s March argument session will include a dispute over a congressional voting map that created a second majority-Black district in Louisiana, a challenge to an accessibility program by ...

Donald Trump may already be working on his enemies list. The former president spent much of his speech at Madison Square Garden on Sunday railing against a now familiar bugbear: supposed "enemies from ...