Mother Jones science reporter Chris Mooney on the psychology of ideology.

Too many political reporters think the details of public policy are boring, and that's a real problem.

The fawning coverage of crony capitalists by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. does America a disservice.

Psychologist Sherry Turkle talks to Bill about why we expect too much from technology and not enough from each other.

Financial Time's commentator Martin Wolf talks about the debt ceiling crisis and psychologist Sherry Turkle explains our addiction to tech devices.

The desire to reprise the GOP's disastrous shutdown seems irrational -- unless you live inside the right-wing media bubble.

In this book excerpt, Sherry Turkle explains how virtual intimacy may be degrading our experiences of the other kind and, quite possibly, all encounters of any kind.

Some of the claims ostensibly respectable figures on the right make about the law are mind boggling.

Just looking at the rank-and-file members of the “suicide caucus” is like focusing on the marionette rather than the puppet-master. Who's pulling the strings?

In the wake of Citizens United a well-funded network of conservative groups has arisen that has the ability to make the lives of Republicans who seek compromise very, very difficult.