Saturday’s campaign by the United States and Israel to rid the world of Iran’s despotic leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has turned into a full-fledged war and is growing by the hour. President Donald Trump said that what he initially envisioned as solely ... See more
As political scientists who study Kansas politics, election administration, and political participation — and as the coauthors of a recent statistical analysis of Kansas’ special elections — we are compelled to speak out against Kansas House Bill 2503. Th... See more
I don’t know about you, but it kind of makes my skin crawl to think of Supreme Court justices who could also be party bosses, raising money and campaigning for the legislators and govenors who make the laws they interpret. Imagine that you walk into a cou... See more
Candidates for quantitative jobs — like those on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley — are sometimes asked offbeat questions such as: How many Ping-Pong balls fit in a 747?
Called Fermi problems, these questions are not meant to elicit a precisely correct an... See more
COLONY — For the longest time, Blaine King tried to deny he wanted anything to do with agriculture. Though he grew up on a farm, it wasn’t for him. Mind you, he came to this conclusion as a middle-schooler. “I was determined not to like it,” he said. “It ... See more
