Mathematicians have made lots of recent progress on a question called the Mordell conjecture, which was posed a century ago ...

The importance of recognizing what's rational and what's not If someone was as rational as could be—with sound decisions and many accurate and trustworthy judgments about the world—would we ...

Hope Versus Optimism The terms “hope” and “optimism” are sometimes used interchangeably. While there are various resemblances ...

I've never been a big believer in the wisdom of voters. Indeed, I've devoted much of my academic career to writing about the ...

Putting campaign promises aside, the realistic prospect is for hard choices and initiatives that are limited in scope.

On election day, Meghan made history by becoming the first member of the British royal family to have ever voted in an ...

John Westmoreland assesses the meaning of the Democrats’ defeat in the US Presidential election Donald Trump is now all but ...

Founder-led firms significantly outperform benchmarks, so investors are very rational to give these founders outsized control ...

Using a method known as “rational drug design,” Elion and Hitchings were able to successfully interfere with cell growth, giving way to a number of effective drugs for treating leukemia, gout, malaria ...

Why it matters: Thanks to climate change, the number of uninsured homes is in ... amount of time — but could never be considered a rational investment. Between the lines: Uninsurable homes ...