The racist Buffalo mass murderer's ideology drew on dangerous ideas common on both the ethnonationalist right and the far left. The racist murderer who killed ten people in Buffalo on Sunday was a ...

In her best-selling book, “The Sum of Us,” author Heather McGhee describes the zero-sum game as “a way of seeing the world as a fixed pie of wellbeing. If one group gets a bigger slice, another group ...

Oliver Stone's movie Wall Street, and Gordon Gekko, really captured the go-go zeitgeist of 1980's materialism and greed. Even today, it feels like many still operate with Gekko's quote in mind: "It's ...

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Many school district administrators and board members across the country say they’ve recently had to cut investments in facilities and instruction to make room for the ballooning cost of pensions for ...

In a zero-sum game, no one can win without someone else losing. It’s like grading on a strict curve with a predetermined allocation of As, Bs, and Cs. Students can put in long hours studying together, ...

We believe the prevailing narrative that Broadcom Inc. and Nvidia Corp. are locked in a zero-sum battle for artificial intelligence data center dominance is misleading. The reality is these companies ...

About a third of Americans either “agree” or “strongly agree” that the economy is a zero-sum game — that one person must lose for another to gain. The figures are higher still for Democrats when they ...

I am now in my 80s, and I reflect on the times when I used to enjoy politics. Then, if the nation faced a real problem, the political parties could reach a compromise and find a solution. Perhaps no ...

I’ve been reflecting lately on the term “zero sum game.” It’s one of those phrases that gets thrown around often in business, particularly in negotiations. The idea is simple: in a zero-sum game, one ...

On Feb. 1, 12 senators across the political spectrum sent a letter to Xavier Becerra, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, railing against the inability of the Food and Drug ...