Betting on tax cuts to boost the economy in the age of automation and outsourcing doesn't make sense. Yet the GOP holds on to voodoo economics with religious zeal.

Hyperventilating conspiracy theories used to be fringe phenomena on the internet look on as curiosities. Now, they're being incorporated into the GOP platform.

Command economies haven't worked with people. Now, some groups want to try it with machines.

A conspiracy theory can't be debunked with something as irrelevant as facts or reality. To its followers, it has to be true, no matter what.

Every tax season shows that not only are people ignorant about how their tax money is spent, they don't want to listen to the breakdowns. And that has serious implications for science and education.

We know what ails us and how to solve it. We just seem unable and unwilling to take the next step and implement those fixes.

The two rules of alt med business. One, there's no regulation strict enough for Big Pharma. Two, any regulation, no matter how token, is too onerous for snake oil manufacturers.

The internet kill switch bill is back and its author and sponsors have learned absolutely nothing about how the technology works.

Nothing is more important to a modern nation's prosperity than science and engineering, and nothing is more neglected by today's politicians.

Politicians want to cut scientific research and education programs, ignoring how little they'd actually be cutting and how many people it will truly affect.

Space reporters are wondering how NASA will navigate its rivalry with private rocketeers. But NASA is actually very happy to have company.

The Tea Party is gladly willing to sabotage science, education, technology, and anything else that reminds them that the world is changing because to them, change is scary.

Christopher Hitchens accurately dissects why very few sane people want to go into Western politics anymore.

Today, extreme poverty is not an issue of insufficient resources, but of politics and allocation. And that makes it much harder to address.

Sometimes ideas advocated as dangerous and subversive are just poorly thought out notions in search of better marketing.