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Opinion: In uncertain times, certainty is over-rewarded 15 Jan, 2021 12:00 AM 4 minutes to read The psychological analogy of the fox and hedgehog offers a valuable lesson in uncertain times. Photo / Getty Images The psychological analogy of the fox and hedgehog offers a valuable lesson in uncertain times. Photo / Getty Images Financial Times By: Jemima Kelly Type the words "kind of", "probably" or "perhaps" into an email in Microsoft Outlook and the program might well tell you to think again. If the artificial intelligence-powered "Microsoft Editor" decides you're not sounding decisi...

Dec. 15, 2020 Credit...Illustration by The New York Times; photographs by Erin Schaff/The New York Times and Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can to receive it on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On Tuesday, Senator Mitch McConnell, the most powerful Republican in Congress, finally recognized Joe Biden as the president-elect after the Electoral College certified his victory on Monday. “The integrity of our elections remains intact,” Mr. Biden said in a speech after the Electoral College vote. “And so now it is time to turn the page, a...

That he's so insecure, he's so, you know -- his ego is so fragile about the fact that he barely skated to victory with 55,000 votes, that anything that questions that legitimacy he simply cannot accept in his brain and therefore is willing to go to these kinds of outlandish lengths in order to somehow secure his time in office. and furthermore, this is all about not 2016, but 2020. and so part of the reason that impeachment becomes necessary and the trial becomes necessary is that this is a president who feels like, "a," as was said, did he nothing wrong and, "b," that he will continue to do t...

Msnbc political contributor rick tyler. and joining the conversation, senior editor for national review and bloomberg view columnist. and professor of international politics at the fletcher school of law and diplomacy at tuft's university, daniel drezner. we'll start with hans nichols live from west palm beach, florida. hans, what's on the administration's plate this morning and the president's conspiracy theory about ukraine -- well, putin's actually -- that continues to be put out on sunday interviews and other interviews the administration holding strong on that? >> and one of the per viewe...

President trump's approval hasn't really changed much. hasn't really changed much for years now. so i think at a certain point you have to step back and say, let's do the right thing and let the chips fall where they may. i do think that it's important for the people who are advocating impeachment and removal to not try to respond to political games with their own political games. so if you think that the senators are not going to do their constitutional duty, i think it's a little bit too clever to hold up the impeachment articles. >> all right. thank you so much. we'll be reading your piece ...