6 Posts found for source_day: 10

The Trump adviser’s assertions about the “real world” reflect a deep misunderstanding of Thomas Hobbes’s dog-eat-dog worldview.

Author: Gal Beckerman | Source: The Atlantic (January 10, 2026) | Subjects: Politics & Public Policy, Psychology | Behavior

1. Accumulation. The simplest and most obvious force that forms and sustains friendships is time spent together. One study estimates that it takes spending 40 to 60 hours together within the first six weeks of meeting to turn an acquaintance into a casual friend, and about 80 to 100 hours to become more than that. So friendships unsurprisingly tend to form in places where people

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Author: Julie Beck | Source: The Atlantic (June 10, 2022) | Subjects: Excerpts, Family & Friends, Life & Society

What follows is the text of a “sermon” that given as a “congregational reflection” to an all White audience at the Bethel Congregational United Church of Christ.

Author: John Metta | Source: Huffington Post (July 10, 2015) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior, Race Relations, Thought Starters

So that’s what we mean when we say America is exceptional. Not that our nation has been flawless from the start, but that we have shown the capacity to change, and make life better for those who follow.

Yes, our progress has been uneven. The work of democracy has always been hard, contentious and sometimes bloody. For every two steps forward, it often feels we take … [ Read more ]

Authors: Barack Obama, Darlene Superville, Josh Lederman | Source: PBS NewsHour (January 10, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, People, Politics & Public Policy

“There’s a magical thinking among business executives that something about the profit motive makes everything run better,” noted Raymond Fisman, a professor of economics at Boston University. […] A serious body of economics, not to mention reams of evidence from decades of privatizations around the world, suggests this belief is false.

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Of course, the government can also do a horrible job of running things. And private … [ Read more ]

Author: Eduardo Porter | Source: The New York Times (January 10, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy

It’s now a commonplace that Trump and his underlings tell whoppers. Fact-checkers have never had it so good. But all politicians lie. Bill Clinton could barely go a day without some shading or parsing of the truth. Richard Nixon was famously tricky. But all the traditional political fibbers nonetheless paid some deference to the truth — even as they were dodging it. They acknowledged a … [ Read more ]

Author: Andrew Sullivan | Source: New York Magazine (February 10, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Trump