Probability has a popular meaning that is not the same as the mathematical meaning. As a small-business owner, you may act on hunches, guesses and instincts. After such actions, you might even say you ...

The room was full of smart people and strong opinions. Leaders from across the organization—strategy, operations, technology, ...

• The probability of dying from a local meteorite, asteroid or comet impact is almost the same as the probability of scoring six, on the toss of a fair die, eight times in succession. • The ...

A dispute over how to divvy up the pot in an interrupted game of chance led early mathematicians to invent modern risk ...

The outrage of the moment in my social media circles is over the New York Times hiring Bret Stephens as an opinion columnist, who promptly devoted his first regular column to sowing doubt about ...