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"Judges and investigators need to be unflinching in their inquiries into the paperwork debacle and must hold the banks fully accountable."
"Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors…still drawing upon misinformation?"
House Democrats are in trouble. Even with substantial majorities in both houses of Congress, Democrats have been unable to get the economy back to operating at full capacity. Whatever the […]
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Women tend to be systematically better at doing what works in leadership positions. The data indicates that women are better managers and better for the economy.
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Because of a persistently unequal division of work at home, men, on average, put in more hours at the office. As a result, it’s harder for women to reach the […]
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The idea that there is a persistent prejudice against women that keeps them from top roles in society is out of sync with reality.
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Successful female leaders tend to act like role models, inspiring and encouraging others. These qualities are make them better suited as leaders of the organizations we’ve developed in the modern […]
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A conversation with the Northwestern University professor of psychology.
The very first post on Dollars and Sex asked the question: “Do Women Really Value Income Over Looks in a Mate?” The research we talked about in that post also […]
A survey analysis released today by Ohio State researchers finds that Fox News viewing contributes significantly to the spread of false rumors about the New York City mosque. Moreover, respondents […]
Nostalgia is dangerous, says novelist Jonathan Lethem: “There is a hugely bogus script that things fall into in American cultural life—that just before we arrived it was all perfect; things […]
We spoke a few weeks ago about how Piton de la Fournaise on Reunion Island was looking like it might erupt soon. Well, “soon” was a little later than predicted […]
Here’s an interesting event taking place tomorrow as bloggers across the world collectively focus on the topic of water. Watch the video below and go to the Blog Action site […]
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Before setting off on a new novel, the author must be fully equipped with a sense of his characters, must have a path in mind, and must be able to […]
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The detective tries to be outside the story, hiding in his office with his bottle of whiskey in the desk drawer, yet he always ends up inside it. This alienated […]
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The history of the novel in the 20th century is, among other things, a history of an argument with cinema—a very excited, nervous argument.
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In the tradition of Jay-Z and Jean-Michel Basquiat, YouTube users create brilliant “vernacular moments”—moments filled with pure expressivity that don’t bother to think of themselves as art.
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Jonathan Letham used to think he was a hipster—until he realized the amount of nastiness people intended when they used that word.
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The author writes about neighborhoods in New York with such richness that they become characters unto themselves. Here, he discusses his favorite undiscovered hoods that haven’t yet made it into […]
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There is a bogus script in American life that everything was better during some imagined time in the past. We tend to characterize change as either sweepingly utopian or dystopian, […]