The Real Message Behind Audi’s Super Bowl Ad Isn’t Exactly An Uplifting One


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Lazy Brain Incapable of Coming Up with New Tactics to Overpower New Strain of Racism Other than Tabboos.

How Stigma Sows Seeds of Its Own Defeat
Defending the liberal project is a Sisyphean task in part because successfully inculcating liberal norms leads to habits that weaken the ability to sustain them.In the Western world, the percentage of ( Read more... )

The Hillary Haters

Few figures in American political life have inspired such deep and decades-long contempt. But why?

By Michelle Goldberg


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Note: In this post, I have decided to follow the suggestion that a certain GOP presidential nominee be treated as He Who Shall Not Be Named. Wherever his name comes up, I have substituted Shakespearean insults ( Read more... )

Narcissism, disagreeableness, grandiosity-a psychologist investigates how Trump’s extraordinary personality might shape his possible presidency.In 2006, Donald Trump made plans to purchase the Menie Estate, near Aberdeen, Scotland, aiming to convert the dunes and grassland into a luxury golf resort. He and the estate’s owner, Tom Griffin, sat down ( Read more... )

Once any kind of sex in public might have led to arrest and prosecution. Now police across much of the UK take a softly-softly approach, writes Julie Bindel ( Read more... )

Neurochemical research has shown that the hormone released when people are in love is released in animals in the same intimate circumstances ( Read more... )

Long before he brought people into his laboratory at Columbia University to smoke crack cocaine, Carl Hart saw its effects firsthand. Growing up in poverty, he watched relatives become crack addicts, living in squalor and stealing from their mothers. Childhood friends ended up in prisons and morgues.

Those addicts seemed enslaved by crack, like the ( Read more... )

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Videos of teenager Ashley Smith taken in the months before she died in a prison cell show the teen was subjected to “degrading and dehumanizing” treatment, her ( Read more... )

DSM-V To Rename Gender Identity Disorder 'Gender Dysphoria'

The newest edition of the psychiatric diagnostic manual will do away with labeling transgender people as "disordered."The newest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, will replace the diagnostic term “Gender Identity Disorder” with the term “Gender ( Read more... )