2 stunning articles from MoJo:
Even Global Warming Can't Convince Republicans That
Global Warming Exists
Polling
data suggests that even when the heat is on, political ideology outweighs facts.
[READ MORE]
In
the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in
Ferguson, Missouri, journalist Chris Mooney decided to see what psychologists
could tell him about racial prejudice.
He
started by looking at America's racial paradox: On the one hand, overt
expressions of prejudice have grown markedly less common than they were in the
Archie Bunker era. And yet, the killings of Michael Brown, Jordan Davis, Renisha
McBride, Trayvon Martin, and so many others remind us that we are far from a
prejudice-free society.
Mooney
learned that science offers an explanation for this paradox, albeit a very
uncomfortable one. To find out what it is—and to learn how we can begin to fix
our racist brains—click here. [READ MORE]
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