Predictions are all the rage this time of year. On Dec. 29, 2020, in collaboration with Erik Porter Bradley of Enterprise Technology Research, we put forth our predictions for 2021. The focus of ...

We all know 2020 was, in the words of an eminent psychologist, “a garbage fire of a year.” We hoped, maybe even expected, 2021 would be better.

Niels Bohr, the Nobel laureate in Physics and father of the atomic model, is quoted as saying, "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future!" I picked Ron Toews, not to criticize ...

In 2021 that number jumped to 9,110, with four weeks still left in the year. In last year’s predictions we specified that this number would surpass 10,000 in 2021—hence the “ish”.

In the moment, it was hard to predict what would come next. But in May 2020, I tried. I wrote down 25 predictions about the pandemic and government lockdowns, and I sent them to colleagues.

Donald Trump said that on Sept. 14, 2020, when, as president, he went to California to get a briefing on the state’s wildfires. Narrowly speaking, this prediction may have been correct.