The Pulitzer’s were announced today and Pro Publica, the online investigative enterprise, snagged one. It’s being hailed as a triumph of online journalism which…makes absolutely no sense. Here’s why: even though Pro Publica itself is an online institution that often publishes...

A recent study by researchers at Harvard and the University of Chicago brings to attention a gender gap in math. Previously, the common belief was that disparities between genders in math did not actually exist and the reason that more prominent mathematicians were male is a result of sexist admission...

Last week a plane carrying the Polish president and a number of Poland’s top government officials crashed killing most on board. Since the tragedy, power has cleanly moved from the now-deceased President Lech Kaczynski and the others on board the flight to those next in line. I talked with Michigan...

The presidents of the United States and Russian Federation signed the new START agreement (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) in Prague yesterday. It limits the operational deployments of the US and Russia to 1,550 warheads, and also restricts deployed delivery systems (missiles, submarines, bombers and...

So Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens announced he will retire this summer. Here’s a helpful reading list for those of you who have been meaning to but just haven’t been able to brush up on the latest Supreme Court journalism on Stevens: Jeffrey Toobin wrote a post immediately...

My hometown Chicago is experimenting with “bike boulevards” (sections of the street reserved only for bikes). Personally, I’m pessimistic about such boulevards even though I ride my bike all. the. time. When I’m in the street I always feel like I’m about to get hit by  Ford...