Jon Cassidy

Could Congress create a fourth branch of government? Maybe break off a piece of what the executive branch handles now…

There are two kinds of power — let’s call them hard and soft. Hard power has to do with authority,…

Inside Job was one of the worst documentaries ever to win an Oscar. The 2010 flick, in which Matt Damon…

Phrenology is a valid science. Well, almost. In 1981, the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould came to fame with the publication…

“Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful…

Cole Wilkins has been locked up for nearly a decade on a trumped-up murder charge, and I bear some of…

Let’s get soft on crime. Who’s with me? Hello? Anyone? If someone were to ask you if you favor tougher…

Somewhere in the wilds of Utah, there’s a scientist making thermal infrared images of rivers, and turning them into exhibits…

“Science as a Delphic oracle exists only in the popular imagination and the silent assumptions of certain scientists. At any…

“Follow the money” is lousy advice for a journalist. The catchphrase, which is spoken by Hal Holbrook’s Deep Throat in…