The WHO took care to explicitly say that processed meat didn’t rank alongside smoking when it comes to cancer risk.

You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.

Donald Trump lied about criticizing Mark Zuckerberg.Ben Carson lied about Mannatech.Carli Fiorina lied about the size of the tax code.Marco Rubio flatly refused to answer a question ("discredited attacks from Democrats") that I guess he didn't think he could just lie about. This is quite a debate.

So many theories. But all of them have one thing in common: They demonstrate that although Trump isn’t much of a businessman, he is rich enough to hire good tax attorneys who will hand over huge stacks of forms for him to sign blindly. That’s a helluva qualification for president, isn’t it?

I’m just some white guy in California, and nobody in Flint is going to pay any attention to what I’m saying. I don’t blame them. Nor do doctors want to publicly agree with me, because nobody wants to downplay the effects of lead poisoning. I get that too. I can already imagine the number of tweets and emails I’m going to get demanding to know why I think Flint is no big deal.