In early August, this year’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) rules were published, including a note that the Rio casino, where the series takes place, reserved the right to remove players deemed to have returned a positive COVID-19 test or come into...
What happens when political communication doesn’t involve any real people? For as long as many will be able to remember, politicians have attempted to appeal to the “man on the street”: a hypothetical individual (or class of individual) whose...
Maria Konnikova isn’t the type of person to rush things. “I'm a big believer in just letting things sit and trying not to force anything, letting it percolate in my head,” she tells me.