If you are leasing a car, what’s the point of paying thousands of dollars due at lease signing? My contract says tax, title, fees and licensing — but then wouldn’t I have to pay that again at the end ...

Several years ago John Rigolizzo, then a fresh college graduate, spent two-and-a-half weeks by the beach in southern California with a dozen other young Republicans. They were not there for the surf ...

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Very few people could have expected that after roughly 30 games, we would be talking about one of the most competitive rookie races we've seen in recent years. The main reason for that is the fact ...

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In many submerged regions, murky mud shelters strange life-forms that seem to be the key to one of the biggest mysteries of life on Earth. These creatures belong to a domain of life called the archaea ...

The good news is that we still have the antidote to all the nonsense out there. As a general matter, I have long agreed with T. S. Eliot that “there is no such thing as a Lost Cause, because there is ...

Seven years ago, I took a bet from one of the most controversial figures in the scientific world. Charles Murray, the political scientist who—along with the late psychologist Richard Herrnstein—wrote ...