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Month: July 2016

“What determines whether someone feels sympathy or scorn for the victim of a crime?”

27 July 201625 July 2016 Drew KaplanPsychology

What determines whether someone feels sympathy or scorn for the victim of a crime? Is it a function of political affiliation? Of gender? Of the nature of the crime? In a recent series of studies,[…]

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“The era of the fact is coming to an end: the place once held by ‘facts’ is being taken over by ‘data'”

26 July 201625 July 2016 Drew KaplanInternet

The era of the fact is coming to an end: the place once held by “facts” is being taken over by “data.” This is making for more epistemological mayhem, not least because the collection and[…]

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“Clinton has…assumed the cool posture of the in-the-know Twitter enforcer who shames people for their garbage posts…. Trump plays the troll”

26 July 201625 July 2016 Drew KaplanPolitics in America

Clinton has, herself, assumed the cool posture of the in-the-know Twitter enforcer who shames people for their garbage posts: “Delete your account,” she tweeted at Trump in June. For people who have never actually set[…]

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“Seldom in a modern presidential campaign has the selection of a running mate mattered as little as it does for [Clinton]”

25 July 201625 July 2016 Drew KaplanPolitics in America

Here’s what we journalists don’t like to tell you or even admit to ourselves as we furiously stir the speculation, breathlessly thicken the suspense and whet Americans’ appetites for the big reveal of who will[…]

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“Having a title in front of your name is important, but it does not mean you have a career”

25 July 201620 July 2016 Drew KaplanJobs/Professions

Having a title in front of your name is important, but it does not mean you have a career. It means you have a qualification. The practical and existential question is what you’re qualified to[…]

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“Though many working-class whites have lost any ties to church, they haven’t necessarily abandoned their faith”

24 July 201620 July 2016 Drew KaplanAmerica

…church attendance has fallen substantially among the members of the white working class in recent years, just when they need it most. Though working-class whites earn, on average, more than working-class people of other ethnicities,[…]

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“…much of contemporary discourse and pretty much all of American politics is a dispute over evidence”

24 July 201620 July 2016 Drew KaplanPolitics in America

Empiricists believed they had deduced a method by which they could discover a universe of truth: impartial, verifiable knowledge. But the movement of judgment from God to man wreaked epistemological havoc. It made a lot[…]

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“… one of the most predictive variables for a place becoming more Republican has been the number of people ethnically identifying as ‘American’…”

22 July 201620 July 2016 Drew KaplanPolitics in America

Something real has been percolating over the past decade in the Republican base when it comes to race and identity. When looking at the change in the county-by-county vote from 2000 to 2012, one of[…]

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“Mr. Trump…offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains”

21 July 201620 July 2016 Drew KaplanPolitics in America

In the white working class, there are far too many wolves: heroin, broken families, joblessness and, more often than we’d like to believe, abusive and neglectful parents. Confronted with those forces, we need, most of[…]

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“Somewhere in recent years, the GOP’s engagement with modern America…became dysfunctional”

21 July 201620 July 2016 Drew KaplanPolitics in America

Somewhere in recent years, the GOP’s engagement with modern America and how to best project those values into a nation of 320 million people became dysfunctional. As the country has diversified, the party has remained[…]

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