The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that ...

Logical fallacies are flaws in reasoning. They are often called informal fallacies. It's becoming more common for people to call out these fallacies by name. You often hear accusations of people ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming commonplace, despite statistics showing that only approximately 7% to 13% (depending on size) of companies have incorporated AI into their regular ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Is there a more annoying cliché in policy-wonk circles than “there are no silver bullets”? If so, it does not ...

It was a Words with Friends chat that first gave Megan Phelps-Roper pause. People have a marked tendency to cling to past investments, whether financial, social, or emotional—even when it becomes ...

Four months after Liberation Day, President Trump is poised to declare victory in his trade war. In July, he trumpeted his latest agreement with the E.U. as “the biggest deal ever made.” With the ...

Without going too far out on a limb, I believe almost everyone would like two things from their jobs and careers: success and happiness. They want to do well financially, receive recognition for their ...

The McNamara Fallacy is the idea that it is an error to make decisions purely on measurements or quantitative data. Robert McNamara was the US Secretary of Defense ...

President Donald Trump is a walking, talking rhetorical fallacy. We should know this by now because he’s been dumbing down our public discourse for years, but it’s worth revisiting as he tries to ram ...

People often ask me how they can avoid misinformation. I wish there was an easy answer, but effectively avoiding misinformation means reevaluating our relationship with information. The perpetuation ...