As South Carolina was handing Newt Gingrich his first victory Saturday, New York Times columnist Charles Blow was, not surprisingly, denouncing the former speaker for "appealing to . . . an ugly, ...

Western assessment of humankind has long involved genetics and Darwinian theory: "good" genes yield beauty and charm; "bad" genes are blamed for depression and violence. Drawing on recent work by many ...

Here at Snopes, we encounter our fair share of logical fallacies, or errors in reasoning, that tend to be more persuasive than they ought to be, and are based on poor or faulty logic. In previous ...