His performance -- though heartfelt and adorable -- is subpar. He fails to impress the judges and no one's chair turns around by the time the song ends. […]

SAN FRANCISCO -- There's a hidden corner of the City by the Bay where rusted cranes used to build WWII battleships loom over dilapidated artist studios, where working-class fishermen bob up against first-class ocean liners docked for repair.Residents of San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood overlook the rough-and-tumble Pier 70 waterfront and bask […]

INDIANAPOLIS — Robert Kraft stared at the scoreboard, to see if time really had run out.It had.Read More... More on Super Bowl […]

LONDON -- Javier Hernandez completed Manchester United's comeback from a 3-0 deficit at Chelsea on Sunday with a late header that salvaged a 3-3 draw and leaves the defending champions two points off the Premier League lead.After storming to a 3-0 lead by the 50th minute, Chelsea collapsed at home by conceding two penalties that Wayne Rooney converted a […]

Dear Susan,My step-children, five and seven years old, refuse to eat the healthy food I put on their plates. Their mother doesn't care what they eat and feeds them pasta almost every night. When they are with us, we try to serve food that is good for them but they complain and won't even try their vegetables. We have tried everything but the only w […]

Australian economic and social overview - wealth, income, distribution, growth and human development. Read more on the blog... […]

Comparing Australian pollsters and their relative partisan leans Read more on the blog... […]

Latest Australian political polling trends for October Read more on the blog... […]

Australian federal election simulations and polling trends Read more on the blog... […]

Australian polling trends for Labor, the Coalition and the Greens Read more on the blog... […]

Being the end of June, it’s time to crank up the stats and run our quarterly election simulations based on polling aggregates of the last 3 months from all the pollsters that provide state level breakdowns. However, before we do, it’s worth updating... Read more on the blog... […]