How facts backfire

Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains Editor’s Note: The thesis advanced in this piece is fine as far as it goes but it misses a huge element in the equation: people are bound to hold erroneous opinions in great numbers when confusion reigns unchallenged and the mass media do little or nothing [...]

Myths of the Deficit

NEARLY 15 MILLION PEOPLE ARE OFFICIALLY COUNTED AS UNEMPLOYED in the United States, and more than 6 million of these have been unemployed for more than 26 weeks. Another 11 million are the “hidden” unemployed: jobless workers who have given up looking for work and part-time workers who want full-time jobs. Unemployment has especially affected [...]

The mother of all paradoxes

For most Americans, the defense of “Americanism” is indistinguishable from the defense of capitalism, aka “the free enterprise system”—its favorite euphemism. Only in America can a citizen opposed to capitalism be denounced as “un-American.” By Gaither Stewart  & Patrice Greanville  | FROM OUR ARCHIVES THE DISMAL DEMISE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM (if it ever really [...]

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