partisanship

One of the biggest mistakes that scientists have made in recent years is to become overtly political. Scientific American has taken it a step further and endorsed Joe Biden for President.

Chronicling the ongoing, stunning decline of the New York Times from America's newspaper of record to a malicious, partisan rag unworthy of the paper it's printed on is something of a hobby of mine.

One of the most depressing features of American life in 2020 is the fact that everything has become politicized.

Despite COVID-19 being a public health crisis, we have politicized our understanding of the disease.

For those Americans who become infected with the novel coronavirus, symptoms include loss of smell, coughing, and high fever. For everyone else, the chief symptom is stupidity.

Academia is in meltdown. There simply is no nice way to put it.

Not that long ago, if a company had invented a far safer way to deliver nicotine to addicted smokers, politicians would be celebrating. Smoking is one of the leading preventable causes of disease and death in the world.

The U.S. Congress is made up mostly of professional politicians and lawyers. This comes as a surprise to precisely no one, but the sheer numbers are rather striking.

One of the biggest problems of our hyperpartisan culture is that everything has been turned into a morbid game show.

One of the predictable consequences of our tribalistic, hyperpartisan society is a collapse in basic decency.