History Unfolding

With ten days to go, it seems pretty certain that the election will be decided by a very narrow margin--one very comparable, indeed, to Geor...

The obituaries for George McGovern, who died on Sunday, are generally leading with his catastrophic defeat at the hands of Richard Nixon in ...

I mentioned last week that reality, and particularly statistical reality, took a beating in the first presidential debate. It didn't do ...

I thought I was done for the weekend, but the New York Times ran a remarkable profile of the Dean of the Columbia Business School, Glenn Hub...

Nate Silver hasn't said so yet , but the Romney surge since the Presidential debate surely ranks as one of the most remarkable turnaroun...