According to the Kremlin, David Icke isn't a wide-eyed conspiracy theorist preaching about immortal alien lizards running the Earth but a serious political scientist.

We don't know what will happen to North Korea now that Kim Jong Il is dead, but we know it's not going to be good.

R.I.P. Christopher Hitchens, 04.13.1949 - 12.15.2011

The Arab Spring is not turning the Middle East into a hotbed of secularism. But given the history and demographics of the region, it would be strange to expect it to.

PROTECT IP and SOPA aren't just threatening to gut the internet under the guise of fighting piracy, they're giving cranks and quacks a powerful new weapon ripe for abuse against their critics.

Intelligent Design was a compromise no one wanted and the wrong answer to a question no one even asked.

Did the politicians and pundits who sing the virtues of corporate wisdom and privatization ever actually work for one?

Ian Cowie would like to know where the riff raff got the preposterous idea that their vote should somehow matter if their net worth is less than seven figures.

The bin Laden conspiracy theorists do bring up one really good point. How could Pakistan not have known where the terrorist mastermind was hiding?

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.

Anti-nuclear NIMBYism has not gotten better over the years. In fact, it's getting worse.

Yes, praying for someone after a tragedy is not even as helpful as sharing a news article about it on social media. And that's a very low bar to fail to clear...

Despite the constant gloom and doom, the world is actually safer, wealthier, and less violent than it's ever been in recorded history.

When humanity tries to be at its best in the wake of a tragedy, the bowels of the internet hand out megaphones to some of its worst members.