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Statistician Leah Libresco said she used to be for gun control. Then she looked at the data. Writing at the Washington Post, the former newswriter for the data journalism site FiveThirtyEight explained her epiphany. “Before I started researching gun deaths, gun-control policy used to frustrate me. I wished the National Rifle Association would stop blocking
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Senator Hiram Johnson is credited with having said during World War I, “The first casualty, when war comes, is truth,” and this observation has been made in more or less the same words many times, both before and since Johnson made his statement. No doubt the declaration is true, but it is true in a
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Freedom is the precursor to happiness. When we’re free, we feel in control of our lives and able to direct our own path. If we’re unhappy, we can make changes and make different choices. If we are not free, we cannot make these choices. We cannot be our own agents, and so we suffer. This
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Charlemagne CEO Devin Foley offers news and insights on the suppression of Intellectual Takeout by Facebook in the days surrounding the 2020 election. Save this article to favorites
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A working paper from the World Economic Forum released earlier this year stated: China’s private sector — which has been revving up since the global financial crisis — is now serving as the main driver of China’s economic growth. The combination of numbers 60/70/80/90 are frequently used to describe the private sector’s contribution to the
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Star Wars actor John Boyega is apologizing for comments he made in a recent interview in which he suggested it takes mental strength to brush off the comments of social media trolls. The controversy began when, in an interview with Variety, the Star Wars actor responded to a question about the dark side of fan engagement,
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