Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. As state and local agencies pursue technology modernization, they ...

In this new series on self-deception, I will spotlight 10 of the most important ego defenses. After looking at denial, repression, and dissociation, it is now time for rationalization. Rationalization ...

In this new series, I shall be examining some of the most important methods of self-deception, starting today with the ego defence of rationalization. Rationalization is the use of feeble but ...