Gates said to understand the impact climate change will have, we need to "look at COVID-19 and spread the pain out over a much longer period of time."

I have had so many conversations or email exchanges with students in the last few years wherein I anger them by indicating that simply saying, "This is my opinion" does not preclude a connected statement from being dead wrong. It still baffles me that some feel those four words somehow give them carte blanche to spout batshit oratory or prose. And it really scares me that some of those students think education that challenges their ideas is equivalent to an attack on their beliefs. -Mick Cullen

Say you're a cord-cutter without a cable subscription. Where can you get your live political theater? CNN has you covered. CNN has announced that it will stream its upcoming Republican debate on Sept. 16 for free, meaning no cable account authentication will be required to view the debate online or via its mobile app.

Now all he has to do is jump in the race.

The cable answer to Fox News is slowly shrinking from the fight. Can digital outlets fill the void?

During Tuesday night's debate between the Democratic presidential candidates, CNN took a question from a young black man who asked via satellite, "Do black lives matter, or do all lives matter?" I hated the way that question was asked.

A federal judge has ordered Kentucky's Democratic governor to weigh in on whether altered marriage licenses issued by Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis' office are valid. Davis opposes same-sex marriage for religious reasons. She spent five days in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of a federal court order. When she got out of jail, she changed the licenses to remove her name and to say they were issued under the authority of a federal judge.

CBS hosted the second Democratic debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa on November 14. In it, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Martin O’Malley went head-to-head. The debate began at 9 p.m. EST and was moderated by John Dickerson, Nancy Cordes, Kathie Obradovich, and Kevin Cooney. A main focus in the debate were the recent attacks in Paris and ISIS’ role in the terror.

The DNC comes under fire for Saturday's low viewership.

When cord cutting naysayers try to argue that killing your cable TV subscription is a bad idea, they often point out that you won’t save money if you subscribe to all the major streaming services instead of getting all your channels through Comcast, Charter or Time Warner Cable. However, saving money isn’t the real point of cord cutting. The real reason to cut the cord is to simply give yourself real choices.

Who among us has not felt the affront? Macadamia nuts arrive in a bag, not on a dish, and something shrivels in the soul. Are we animals? Did we execute the challenging task of being born insanely wealthy only to eat in-flight snacks from a bag? We did not. And that is why, when Korean Air heiress Cho Hyun-ah was confronted by a bag of nuts on a flight out of New York in December 2014, she became enraged and forced the plane back to the gate.

Conventional wisdom, 2007: Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination in a cakewalk. Conventional wisdom, 2015: Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination in a cakewalk. Everybody knows what happened to the conventional wisdom once 2007 turned to 2008. Certainly Clinton does. This time around, even as she amassed advantages that may still prove insurmountable, her campaign put forth a strong message: "We get it. We’ve changed."

Particpating in the Feb. 4 event would put candidates at odds with the DNC.

A dominant performance by the man who didn't show up.

NEW YORK—Grasping for any way to halt the Democratic candidate’s momentum, a coalition of wealthy donors reportedly pumped millions of dollars into Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign this week in a last-ditch effort to destroy his credibility.

Sorry mom

The grammar used by Donald Trump in his speeches as he campaigns to become the Republican presidential candidate corresponds to that used by students aged 11 and under. The 69-year-old businessman's language tailed his counterparts. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio - although he has now dropped out of the race - both used grammar corresponding to children aged between 11 and 14 - students between grades six and eight in the US. But their vocabulary was more...

While we may go through specific, common fallacies and how to spot them in future videos, this video offers a quick review of validity and soundness along with some thoughts on the sort of heuristic processes our brains might use when evaluating claims. I've included some tips on how to practice analyzing arguments - because you're not going to be an expert overnight!