Much of the world’s best data comes from the U.S. government and much of the best data in government comes from the Commerce Department. Here's how it could be better. [...]
The 150-pound Raptorex "was running things down, dispatching them with its powerful jaws, and clutching them with its two-fingered hands"—the same hunting strategy that apparently worked for 6-ton T. rex.[...]
Dick Cheney and others oppose a decision to review interrogations that may have overstepped even more lenient legal guidance of Bush-administration lawyers. [...]
The already unwieldy debate over US healthcare reform grew stranger and darker this week, drawing in British physicist Stephen Hawking, “death panels”, guns and Nazi Germany. [...]