Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide insights into the justices’ decision making ...

Formal logic helps us build and evaluate rational arguments, which helps us to test claims, explain our reasoning, and keep discussions clear. The first step in learning formal logic is learning about ...

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 ...

Many saw desktop impressions drop around Sept. 10. A working theory is that past spikes were inflated by bots loading 100-result pages. Google hasn’t commented yet. Google appears to have disabled the ...

Functions are the building blocks of Python programming. They let you organize your code, reduce repetition, and make your programs more readable and reusable. Whether you’re writing small scripts or ...

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 ...

Federal prosecutors made their closing arguments Thursday in the sex trafficking trial against Sean "Diddy" Combs in New York. "Over the last several weeks, you've learned a lot about Sean Combs," ...

Among the most powerful tools we have as programmers—perhaps the most powerful tools—are functions. We’ve already seen some built-in Python functions, for example, print() and type(). We’ll see many ...

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 ...