Nearly 80 years ago — during the height of the Great Depression — economist Simon Kuznets envisioned a system capable of measuring productivity and economic activity. In a report to Congress, Kuznets ...

Christopher Harris joins The Beat to discuss "Crutch Arguments," faulty logic that can cost fantasy football owners dearly on draft day. Plus, some early player-rankings movement after Week 1 of the ...

For all the moral outrage expressed by the defenders of Proposition 8, they fail to see the biggest contradiction. Their main premise is that legalizing marriage between same-sex couples will somehow ...

Chief Justice Roberts wrote that the health care law “makes going without insurance just another thing the Government taxes, like buying gasoline or earning income.” The logic of comparing a lack of ...

Oh, Papa Reed, the Grandmaster of Spin, the Patriarch of Partial Truths, is at it again. He didn't even wait for a week to pass before he managed to turn out this little diddy: Woo-Hoo! Let the drama ...

I grew up in an East European country in an era of a slogan “who is not with us is an enemy.” It was the same kind of faulty logic as Don Daigle demonstrated in his letter titled “Candidates should ...

If you search the topic boycotts on Google you immediately realize how historically common they are. There are a lot to choose from, and one of the first listed is the 1769 boycott instituted by the ...

The brief reprieve of summer is almost over, and parents everywhere are bracing themselves for the return to school. Back to the homework wars, the grade worries and the endless carpools to a dizzying ...

With class action suits against Apple seemingly initiated every few weeks, it's easy to keep track of what's happening where. That said, you might recall a suit recently levied against Apple alleging ...

Apple has quietly launched a new iPhone 8 repair program that will replace faulty logic boards for free. The new option is due to a "very small percentage" of iPhone 8 smartphones that feature logic ...

For Clear Logic Inc., the game appears to be over. The company is facing bankruptcy and a court order giving it just 10 days to destroy a significant portion of its inventory. And all this is before ...