Since coming in a surprisingly strong second in the New Hampshire Republican primary last week, Ohio Governor John Kasich has been on a roll. His campaign has reported “gangbusters” fundraising and Kasich’s national poll numbers posted a sizable bounce.

More Republican voters are giving the Ohio governor a second look, and some...

Anyone who has ever tried to cut back on sweets has probably heard that all it takes is “mind over matter.”

But new research by Lenny Vartanian of UNSW Australia and Kristin Kernan and Brian Wansink of...

When I was young, the only planets we knew about were the ones in our own solar system.

Astronomers presumed that many of the other stars in the night sky had planets too, but this was sheer speculation. We could never know for sure, the thinking went, because...

Justice Antonin Scalia left an indelible mark on American law. His prodigious intellect, distinctive style and sharp wit will be sorely missed by his family,...

The first few months of a new year can be a stressful time financially. The Christmas holidays typically lead to depleted savings and higher credit card balances, while tax season is right around the corner.

Unfortunately for most us, this isn’t a seasonal dilemma but a chronic problem that brings anxiety throughout the year.

Indeed, as many...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is currently investigating the Chicago Police Department.

The high-profile police shooting of teen Laquan McDonald – combined with the city’s efforts to prevent the public from learning about it – prompted the investigation.

Given that the Justice Department is playing hardball with Ferguson,...

In December 2015, the FBI traced the leak of Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” back to a Hollywood executive. According to The Hollywood Reporter, watermarks on the leaked copy led to the office of Andrew Kosove, co-CEO...

Most online maps of the Internet are architectural plans, engineering blueprints, anatomical drawings or statistical graphics. For example, the Internet has been represented as millions of devices conn...

Standardized tests have become the primary tool for determining a student’s academic ability. Legislators and administrators use test data to evaluate the effectiveness of schooling on children and create curriculum.

Their use is supported by two fundamental assumptions:...

Terrorists are in it as much for the loot as for the ideology.

The Islamic State, or ISIS, could hardly exist, whatever its Islamist fervor, without hard cash from sales of pilfered petroleum, taxes on its subject population and kidnappings for ransom.

Likewise ISIS- and al-Qaida-linked groups in Africa prosper by trafficking drugs across the Sahara...