Blaming Trump's election on the magical power of Russian Twitter bots is seductive because it excuses Americans for electing an obviously unqualified candidate.
Historian Jerry Z. Muller says we waste too much time fixating on measurements that lead us astray.
Did San Francisco really see a 170 percent "spike in human trafficking" last year?
Government statistics often show more reports of both. That doesn't mean either is on the rise.
Think labor's share of America's economic output has been plunging? Think again.
It trivializes a brutal crime to inflate the count this way. Cut it out.
A number's popularity does not prove its accuracy.
Or how writing about survey methodology can go wrong fast
The exceptions in 2016 were Minnesota and Texas, according to newly released FBI data.
"Hate crimes" suspected to be motivated by racial bias have dropped, but those perceived to be motivated by gender bias nearly doubled.
Cato's polling director Emily Ekins says as many as one in five voters can be identified as libertarian.
The Supreme Court to decide if gerrymandering is unconstitutional
There were 3,256 such surgeries in 2016, says the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. But how it got this number is anyone's guess.
U.S. kids are no more likely to be abducted today than they were decades ago, and much more likely to be returned safely when they are.
Exploring the absurdities of modern nutritional epidemiology.
Officials claim that more than 1,000 Ohio children are "trafficked into the sex trade each year." Here's why they're wrong.
Contradicts claims that only 40 percent of studies could be replicated.
The numbers don't justify the outrage and fear.
The final in a three-part series on how Sarah Maslin Nir's investigative series violated the standards of responsible journalism.
Sitting all day will kill you. Well, maybe not.
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