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How to Resolve the Looming U.S. Debt Ceiling Crisis: Tax the 1%

Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that there is a chance that, for the first time in United States history, we may soon…

May 21, 2023

How to Resolve the Looming U.S. Debt Ceiling Crisis: Tax the 1%

May 21, 2023

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Why Expert Advice about COVID-19 Keeps Changing — and How Republicans are Killing their Base

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been plenty of debate about how quickly to resume business as usual in U.S…

Jan 26, 2022

Why Expert Advice about COVID-19 Keeps Changing — and How Republicans are Killing their Base

Jan 26, 2022

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Understanding and Reducing Firearm Deaths in the United States: It Aint Simple

We need to reduce needless gun deaths. It won’t be easy, but social science can point the way.

Jan 6, 2022

Understanding and Reducing Firearm Deaths in the United States: It Aint Simple

Jan 6, 2022

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The Blatant Racism, the Unbridled Sexism, and the Spark of Wisdom of the Founding Fathers

Maybe it’s time to recognize how patently undemocratic the Founding Fathers were — while following their example of throwing off a…

Dec 30, 2021

The Blatant Racism, the Unbridled Sexism, and the Spark of Wisdom of the Founding Fathers

Dec 30, 2021

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I see that now, but at the global level, it is generally the less religious nations that have…

Also, religious people often think it is their job, or God's job, not the government's job -- to help others. Before religion began to fade…

Dec 22, 2021

Dec 22, 2021

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If You Like Happiness and Freedom, You’re Going to Love Socialism

Happiness and freedom go hand in hand with each other, and they both go hand in hand with democratic socialism

Dec 18, 2021

If You Like Happiness and Freedom, You’re Going to Love Socialism

Dec 18, 2021

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What We Can Learn about the Psychology of Racism from the Ahmaud Arbery Murder Case

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Dec 9, 2021

What We Can Learn about the Psychology of Racism from the Ahmaud Arbery Murder Case

Dec 9, 2021

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This was a fun read, but I don't buy it that highly intelligent aliens have been here before -- or…

One big problem with cosmological modeling and star and planet counting is that the experts who do it -- who are very, very good at…

Dec 7, 2021

Dec 7, 2021

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I agree with Julia.

One can never know intentions for sure, but I assume that the photographer was making an anti-racist statement about how suprising it is to…

Dec 1, 2021

Dec 1, 2021

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Asians weren't enslaved on a massive scale here in the United States.

I appreciate your engagement, but I don't feel like you have any real answer -- other than systemic racism -- for why Black women who do…

Nov 23, 2021

Nov 23, 2021

Brett Pelham

Brett Pelham

Brett is a social psychologist at Montgomery College, MD. Brett studies health, gender, culture, religion, identity, and stereotypes.

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