Scientists are starting to run for office to bring evidence-based reasoning back to government.
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Slavoj Žižek examines the situation out of which refugees are created, and criticizes conservatives and liberals alike for their “conspiracy theories”.
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“If all that liberals can do in response is continue to lie about the causes of terrorism and lock arms with Islamists, we have some very rough times ahead,” writes Sam Harris.
“Behind every rise of fascism is a failed revolution,” said the Frankfurt School thinker Walter Benjamin. Here, Slavoj Žižek revives that statement in the context of the failed left.
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David Miliband has said that the hardest way into the US is to enter as a refugee. Is he correct?
What are the arguments in favor of comprehensive immigration restrictions, what relevant ethical claims are political discourses obscuring, and how has German hip-hop formed as a result?
The US Air Force’s Space Horizons Team wants to juice America’s space program. Here’s how.
Is the U.S.’s focus on small-time immigration infringements leaving the nation more vulnerable?
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Donald Trump directly contradicts the biblical notion of charity. Yet Evangelicals, Mormons, Protestants, and White Catholics overwhelmingly voted for him.
Silicon Valley engineers and financiers make up the lion’s share of the movement.
How easily grossed out are you? Your sensitivity to disgust reveals more about you than you’d probably be comfortable with, from how you’ll vote in this election to your potential to be a cold-blooded killer.
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Using technology to make democracy more dynamic hearkens back decades. But today, we have the means to make it work.
While Kellyanne Conway spoke of a nonexistent massacre, there was a real, historical massacre that took place at Bowling Green – in New York City.
Regardless of truth, the best storyteller wins: how else could a quarter of Americans, many struggling financially, ‘relate’ to a billionaire real estate mogul?
Artists who become famous for their children’s work get relegated to the ‘sunshine and candy’ category of our minds. But it turns out Dr. Seuss had serious political bite.
A global risk report by the World Economic Forum lists populism and social division among the top five trends that will determine global markets in 2017 and beyond.
The Los Angeles Hope Festival is the celebration and examination of hope and optimism, two paradigmatic mental attitudes that play a vital and influential role in our daily lives.
The United States is not only a country of immigrants, but its composition is dramatically changing.
One-fifth to one-sixth of British Victorian fortunes were derived from slavery, historians say.
The KIND foundation discovers seven people doing inspiring things for others.
While often compared to the Roman Empire, the United States is not likely to collapse in the same way.
There is more global immigration than ever before because we live in a dispersed, and therefore connected, world. Great societies have always depended on immigrants, and today is no exception.
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Harvard psychologist Susan David explains the dangers of fear-mongering, the questionable ethics of journalism in spreading hate politics, and the disturbing way that repetition wears down our brain’s resistance to fallacies and hate speech.
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The United States of America is as divided now as it has ever been. Why is this? One author suggests that it is because we have never been one united nation, but 11 differing ones. Founded for different reasons and striving towards conflicting goals, can they ever learn to get along again?
Biomechanist Katy Bowman argues that our fitness mindset has environmental consequences in her new book, Movement Matters.
Science authorities in the United Kingdom are now worried that the country may lose up to $1.4 billion annually in science funding that flows from the European Union.
As a number of states decide the fate of legalized and medical marijuana next week, John Hudak looks back at the history of public policy.
If we want true greatness, let’s move toward a sustainable nutrition program that does more than throw trans-fat labels on processed foodstuffs.
The UK sees Sealand as nothing more than a platform in its waters. The Bates Family disagrees.
The Justice Department announces the end of privately run Bureau of Prisons jails, and activists are excited.