8 Posts found for source_day: 22

The Republican Party stands for lower taxes, especially on the rich; lower spending on programs for the poor; and big spending on defense. That’s what Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Paul Ryan, and other figures who defined the party have all stood for, for nearly half a century now… The essential Republican message may become blurred around the edges, the way that George W. Bush messed … [ Read more ]

Author: Dylan Matthews | Source: Vox (May 22, 2025) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy

A self-schema is the information and beliefs you hold about yourself. This cognitive framework influences how you feel, how you react, your actual behavior, and your perception of your place in the world.

How your self-schema influences your actions can be nuanced: For example, you may have internalized that you’re not athletic during childhood — and then, later in life, limit yourself when you want to … [ Read more ]

Author: Sarah Sloat | Source: Inverse (April 22, 2025) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Researchers have created a new way to classify arrogance on different levels across a spectrum.

The team acknowledges everyone seems to have some degree of arrogance, so in addition to the literature review, the researchers suggest a way to classify the different levels of arrogance a person could exhibit.

The team devised a system that identifies three types of arrogance:

• Individual arrogance—an inflated

… [ Read more ]

Author: Eric Stann | Source: Futurity (October 22, 2019) | Subjects: Attitude, Character, Psychology | Behavior

With the possible exception of Yuval Levin’s The Fractured Republic, for Americans who care about politics and the future of our country, Hillbilly Elegy is the most important book of 2016. You cannot understand what’s happening now without first reading J.D. Vance. His book does for poor white people what Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book did for poor black people: give them voice and presence … [ Read more ]

Author: Rod Dreher | Source: The American Conservative (July 22, 2016) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Trump

Setting aside the title, George Lakoff provides an interesting framework to explain fundamental differences between conservatives and liberals or progressives. Specifically, he introduces the idea of the Nurturant Parent family (progressive) and the Strict Father family (conservative). He also discusses the folly of considering demographics vs. worldview or values and how that relates to specific issues.

Author: George Lakoff | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Trump

The challenge of providing affordable, high-quality health care for all Americans is the subject of furious debate in the nation’s capital. University of Pennsylvania’s Ezekiel Emanuel, chair of the medical ethics and health policy department and a health care management professor at Wharton, helped craft the Affordable Care Act during the Obama administration. He puts forward some ideas for improving the system in his book, … [ Read more ]

Author: Ezekiel Emanuel | Source: Knolwedge@Wharton (June 22, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Health & Medicine, Politics & Public Policy

In short, it appears as though educational levels are the critical factor in predicting shifts in the vote between 2012 and 2016. You can come to that conclusion with a relatively simple analysis, like the one I’ve conducted above, or by using fancier methods. In a regression analysis at the county level, for instance, lower-income counties were no more likely to shift to Trump once … [ Read more ]

Author: Nate Silver | Source: FiveThirtyEight (November 22, 2016) | Subjects: Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Trump

Portugal treats addiction as a disease, not a crime.

Author: Nicholas Kristof | Source: The New York Times (September 22, 2017) | Subjects: Excerpts, International, Politics & Public Policy