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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…

8 min readMay 21, 2023

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

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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…

5 min readJan 26, 2022

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

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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.

26 min readJan 6, 2022

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

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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…

6 min readDec 30, 2021

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

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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…

1 min readDec 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

7 min readDec 18, 2021

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

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

By Brett Pelham & William von Hippel

5 min readDec 9, 2021

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

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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…

2 min readDec 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…

1 min readDec 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…

1 min readNov 23, 2021

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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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