Steve Sailer: iSteve

Here's a level-headed sounding new book by a Sports Illustrated writer: The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athleti...

From CNN last month, the opening of an 18-page article: Mysterious Mississippi murder stokes suspicions bred by an ugly past    Beaten...

For six years , I've been pointing out that the mortgage meltdown of 2007 that kicked off the great recession of 2008 was tied to Georg...

Salon's movie critic Andrew O'Hehir is one of the more interesting liberal writers around because he notices things: e.g., he was p...

From the AP : A person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press that all players targeted for drug suspensions other tha...

2006 Back in 2006 , I pointed out that the rapid spread from Mexico to California of "human directionals," people paid to sta...

From Nature : Most people who retain the ability to digest milk can trace their ancestry to Europe, where the trait seems to be linked ...

For some reason, turnout was low. From the New York Times : Women Scarce In the Top Posts Of Los Angeles  By ADAM NAGOURNEY  LOS ...

Colby Cosh writes on prognosticator Nate Silver's move from the New York Times to ESPN It is amusing to me, and I bet it is pretty a...

At the visitor's center in Arches National Park, just outside Moab, Utah, there are touch screens to help you plan your visit.  T...

Oh, wait ... despite all the articles I've read asserting that over the last 40 years, that isn't actually happening. Instead, th...

Robert Mugabe, age 89, won a reported 61% of the vote in Zimbabwe last week, propelling him into his second third-of-a-century as ruler of ...

From MondoWeiss: Jewish success– is it ever a story?   Philip Weiss on July 30, 2013 38  This morning National Public Radio aired a s...

Since college football teams aren't supposed to pay their players, they spend vast sums to wow beefy boys with practice facilities that...

From The Times of Israel : A number of people from the former Soviet Union wishing to immigrate to Israel could be subjected to DNA testin...

Back in 1996, Proposition 209 outlawing racial preferences was passed by California voters and became part of the state Constitution. State...

For a long time now , I've been suggesting that after gay marriage, the next big Civil Rights Struggle will be transgender rights. The ...

From the New York Times, after a decade of Mayor Bloomberg's policy of massive stop and frisk stops of blacks, Latins (and white guys w...