The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.

If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

In the United States especially, politics and economics don’t mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of laws that, as well-meaning as they may be, fail to account for the way real people respond to real-world incentives.

The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.