Saturday’s campaign by the United States and Israel to rid the world of Iran’s despotic leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has turned into a full-fledged war and is growing by the hour. President Donald Trump said…

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei governed Iran with the vigilance and brutality of an autocrat convinced that his own people and the world’s superpower sought to unseat him — and in the end, they did.  With President…

As political scientists who study Kansas politics, election administration, and political participation — and as the coauthors of a recent statistical analysis of Kansas’ special elections — we are compelled to speak out against Kansas…

Imagine that you walk into a courtroom and find that the judge about to hear your case is also the regional chairman of the ruling party. You might be imagining China, maybe North Korea, perhaps…

Candidates for quantitative jobs — like those on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley — are sometimes asked offbeat questions such as: How many Ping-Pong balls fit in a 747?  Called Fermi problems, these questions…

The menagerie at the Department of Health and Human Services keeps getting stranger. President Trump’s nominee for Surgeon General, Casey Means, auditioned Wednesday for the role of vaccine skeptic at her Senate confirmation hearing. The…

Every morning over buckwheat pancakes and sausage, my father and grandfather would decide which fields to work that day and share an update about their cattle. Then, inevitably, the talk would move on to the…

We love the 12 gold medals — 33 in total — our athletes are bringing home, but it’s the stories that keep us hooked on the Olympic Games, and Milan did not disappoint, ending with…

Tesla’s factory in Shanghai produces far more cars per worker as its plant in California. The gap reflects something unsettling about China’s broader edge in manufacturing: It has figured out how to organize production around…

There are no videos from concerned citizens documenting the last seconds of Ruben Ray Martinez’s life to contradict the official report of his shooting death by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2025. But…