In the other side of his bifurcated life, the author muses on the mysteries of coincidence and the siren call of the movies

Thursday morning I moderated my first live presidential debate, on Capitol Hill.

The United States faced down authoritarian governments on the left and right. Now it may be facing an even greater challenge from within

It's not about voter fraud. Minnesota has had no cases of voter impersonation, which is the only kind of fraud that a government-issued photo ID would prevent. It's about turning Minnesota into a "red state" for the foreseeable future. Here's how.

If the candidates for president will discuss the nation's top science issues, why won't the key members of Congress who lead the committees that deal with science policy?

Language Intelligence speaks to that urge that we all have to convince others of the rightness of our ideas, and shows how the masters do it in concrete, clear, and concise language.

Nationally-known meteorologist Paul Douglas has a challenge for the Republican presidential nominee

President Barack Obama and his challenger Governor Mitt Romney have answered fourteen Top American Science Questions put to them by the grassroots nonprofit I lead, ScienceDebate.org.

The good people at the Minnesota Book Awards have put together a reader's guide for Fool Me Twice, which won the 2012 Minnesota Book Award for Nonfiction.

Rep. Akin's comments have their roots in mid eighteenth-century ignorance

Beyond these Orwellian arguments, for a true taste of problems inherent in this discussion tune in to the exchange that happened as Boxer brought the first portion of the hearing to a close.

Fifteen of the top U.S. science and engineering organizations today released a list of the most important science policy questions that presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Mitt Romney should be debating on the campaign trail.

A gripping, evocative memoir of the writer's childhood love for his criminal but all-too-human father

The Guardian has unearthed a shocking new propaganda plan intended to turn the American public against wind energy in the 2012 election cycle.

Climate Scientist Scott Mandia writes an open letter to State Farm Insurance.

The Heartland Institute is preparing a $100,000 school science curriculum on climate change coming to a school near you. Among their logical leaps is a new billboard featuring mass murderers and totalitarians who believe in climate change. This is science?

Obama has an opportunity to use climate change as a significant wedge issue to shave votes away from Romney among moderate Republicans and Independents who believe science is the best basis for public policy.

Chinese physicist Fang Lizhi wrote of science and freedom and paid for it with his own.

When the publication's science editor publishes antiscience propaganda, what can we learn?