This morning, Democrats are feeling pretty good. We shouldn’t be. With many races still too close to call, it appears that this year’s elections were not quite the cataclysm for Democrats that they could have been. We have a decent chance of preserving a 50–50 tie in the Senate and…

That’s not good. As one of my friends reminded me, if David Brooks says something, the opposite must be true. …

Do statins increase the risk of diabetes? That’s the title of a recent article in The New York Times that was undoubtedly read by hundreds of thousands of people with high cholesterol. (Statins are the class of drug that is the most common medication used to treat high “bad” cholesterol.) …

If you know who Adnan Syed is, you know because of season one of Serial, the This American Life spinoff hosted by Sarah Koenig that became the biggest podcast of all time back in 2014. The podcast investigated Syed’s conviction in 2000 for murdering his former high school girlfriend, Hae…

I’ve held off writing this for a long time because it seems self-indulgent to blog about my personal problems. …

During the 2016 presidential primaries, many people thought Donald Trump was a “narcissistic, incompetent, misogynistic, racist, dishonest clown” — the words I used in my recent Washington Post review of The Big Cheat, a new book by veteran journalist and Trump-watcher David Cay Johnston. After winning the general election, Trump…