To persuade you, people often try to use logical fallacies (Credit: Javier Hirschfeld) When people are trying to persuade you, they sometimes reach for underhand tricks like the 'appeal to ignorance' ...

Whataboutism is an argumentative tactic where a person or group responds to an accusation or difficult question by deflection. Instead of addressing the point made, they counter it with “but what ...

Last Monday was Holocaust Memorial Day. Once again the global Jewish community and people of goodwill (and, I might add with a touch of cynicism, politicians) gathered in different locations to retell ...

The House hearings on the events of Jan. 6 have been devastating to Donald Trump and to those Republicans who downplay those events — which, whether you call them a riot or an insurrection, amounted ...