This is in response to “What happened,” by Ken Neubecker, on Dec. 20. This letter probably won’t settle the argument about how the United States gained the Southwestern states. No doubt that there was ...

Humans are biased. We remember things that confirm our beliefs more than things that don’t. And every day, we’re presented with new information and arguments that we have to sort through, especially ...

Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 111, No. 3 (Dec., 2002), pp. 251-275 (25 pages) An argument whose conclusion C is essential evidence for ...

How often do you feel like an argument with your partner comes to a neat ending, with everyone happy and the issue resolved forever? On the other hand, how often do you end up squabbling about the ...

We Americans are notoriously bad at saving money. While people in Germany, Sweden and even France save about 10 percent of the money they make, folks in the U.S. save closer to 3 or 4 percent of their ...

Kroger’s switch in marketing strategy attracted a lot of attention earlier this year. The grocery retailer said it was discontinuing the use of print weekly ad circulars in newspapers in certain ...