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What it means to be poor by global standards Poverty

What it means to be poor by global standards

By Rakesh Kochhar The share of the global population that is poor plunged from 29%…

AdministratorMay 3, 2017

Voters’ perceptions of crime continue to conflict with reality Crime

Voters’ perceptions of crime continue to conflict with reality

Despite double-digit percentage decreases in U.S. violent and property crime rates since 2008, most voters…

AdministratorMay 2, 2017

Dueling Claims on Crime Trend Crime

Dueling Claims on Crime Trend

By Lori Robertson President Barack Obama said there have been “huge drops in the murder…

AdministratorMay 2, 2017

The United States Is Not an Apocalyptic Wasteland, Explains Steven Pinker Conflict

The United States Is Not an Apocalyptic Wasteland, Explains Steven Pinker

By Phil Torres The Harvard cognitive scientist tells us how life is always getting better,…

AdministratorMay 2, 2017

Are We Fundamentally Good or Evil? Neuroscience Has an Answer Conflict

Are We Fundamentally Good or Evil? Neuroscience Has an Answer

By Nicola Brown What underlies every box office hit, bestselling novel, and most compelling video…

AdministratorMay 2, 2017

What Is Driving the Rise of ‘Fake News’ and News Literacy Lessons to Spot It Media

What Is Driving the Rise of ‘Fake News’ and News Literacy Lessons to Spot It

By Gene Foreman and the News Literacy Project The “fake news” phenomenon was on vivid…

AdministratorMay 2, 2017

Mind Over Mass Media Media

Mind Over Mass Media

By Steven Pinker NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press,…

AdministratorMay 2, 2017

Why worldview threats undermine evidence Media

Why worldview threats undermine evidence

By Michael Shermer Have you ever noticed that when you present people with facts that…

AdministratorMay 2, 2017

5 facts about crime in the United States Crime

5 facts about crime in the United States

By John Gramlich February 21, 2017 Donald Trump made crime-fighting an important focus of his…

AdministratorApril 4, 2017