The Epstein–Barr virus: Why conspiracies beget more conspiracies.
Dispatches from a post-truth world. Part 41 of a series on politics and game theory, this on the theories about Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide. [Read now...]
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Mike Selinker
- 15 articles in PMP Magazine
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Game designer, puzzlecrafter, author, and president of Seattle's Lone Shark Games. His puzzles and game articles frequently appear in Games Magazine, The New York Times, and The Chicago Tribune.
You don’t have to want to save the planet. You just have to.
It’s hard living in the love of the common people. Part 40 of a series on game theory and politics, this on environmentalism and immunization. [Read now...]
If Trump is not indicted because he cannot be, he should be.
Robert Mueller speaks volumes. Two of them. Mike Selinker on Robert Mueller’s conclusions about President Trump. [Read now...]
No one wants to go to war with Iran. We’re going anyway.
A little tale about dinner in Abilene and the Trump Administration’s Iran policy. [Read now...]
How Theresa May’s war of attrition killed everyone.
Europe, they just cannot quit you. Someday, when I’m old and gray(er), I’ll be able to tell the unbelieving youth that there was a time the UK lost its fool mind, but it got it back in time. [Read now...]
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Opinion, Brexit, Brexiters, Theresa May, Conservatives
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Trump will always blink.
With Donald Trump, don’t turn your back, don’t look away, and don’t blink. Part 28 of a series on game theory and politics, this one focusing on Trump’s shutdown debacle. [Read now...]
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Opinion, Donald Trump, Game Theory
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A candidate’s guide to winning the rock-paper-scissors primary.
With lizards, but no Spock. A look at the crowded field of Democrats running for president in 2020. Part 27 of a series on game theory and politics. [Read now...]
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2020 US Election, Game Theory, Democrats, Opinion
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Game-changer: How Democrats won the Kavanaugh war by losing the battle.
Congratulations, Republicans! You’ve gotten Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court! His face will always be associated with your victory. His ragey, hateful, perjuring, conspiratorial face. You’re him now. That vote to confirm Kavanaugh will work in Democrats’ favor, and eventually America’s as well. [Read now...]
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Opinion, Donald Trump, US Politics
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Seizing children is good policy (if you’re a complete monster).
A look at the Trump policy of separating migrant families. Part eighteen of a series of articles on game theory and politics. [Read now...]
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Donald Trump, Opinion, Human Rights
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Two madmen play poker: the North Korea bluff-off.
A game theory look at Trump’s North Korea strategy. [Read now...]
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Donald Trump, North Korea, Opinion, US Politics
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Good Guys, Bad Guys, and the end of an armed society.
Every time we have a gun massacre, two things will happen: The Onion will publish a “No way to prevent this” article and the gun control debate will flare. [Read now...]
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Donald Trump, Gun Control, NRA, US Politics, Opinion
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Abortion rights and the game theory of armor.
Mike Selinker takes a look at Texas’s no good, very bad anti-choice strategy. Fourth of a series of posts about politics and game theory. This one on abortion rights. [Read now...]
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Abortion Rights, US Politics
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