Psychological science is really just our best shot at making sense of how people think, feel, and act. It’s rooted in old philosophy but runs today on experiments, observation, and data. Back in the ...

Attacking the virtue and validity of research science is nothing new in certain corners of American culture. A century ago, in the famous Scopes trial, a high school teacher in Tennessee was ...

Even though it’s a relatively subjective term, more people than ever are missing the characteristics generally associated with common sense, including kindness, basic empathy, respect for others, ...

That is how Donald Trump, early in his Inaugural Address, described the principle, or at least the slogan, that would animate his second term. It’s an exquisitely Trumpian formulation — tying the ...

Artificial intelligence is already changing young people’s lives. Students are generating essays with a few clicks. Young people are becoming entangled in emotionally-manipulative relationships with ...

For over a decade I’ve been lugging around on my laptop a presentation describing the contrasting values and vocabulary honored by liberals and conservatives. Among those differences are conservatives ...

Does it feel like having common sense just kind of evaporated in our society? Every day, CEOs make foolish decisions that hurt their own companies, politicians seem to throw their own careers under ...

Two summers ago, two teenage boys died while cliff diving into Lake Superior. At Black Beach, near Silver Bay, they apparently misjudged the dangerous waves and the shock of the frigid water. People ...

For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. Joe Manchin is as plainspoken as the day is long. He is a serious guy who does not like to waste time playing games.