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2 days ago · Social Security is in trouble, with a long-term funding obligation shortfall that's widened to $22.6 trillion. Social media message board posts frequently blame Social Security's shortcomings on ...
2 days ago · Fact or fiction: Congress stole from Social Security? While it's easy to blame lawmakers for Social Security's shortcomings, the idea that Congress pilfered funds from Social Security is 100% fiction.
1 day ago · It is a common view that Popper’s defense of the open society has been a defense of Western, liberal democracies. This seems to imply that by fostering democratic institutions we are ipso facto fostering open societies. I criticize this view by arguing that in-built incentives in democratic mechanisms move us away from (or hamper) the open society. Democracy promotes voters’ ignorance ...
5 days ago · Despite numerous studies examining the impact of moral vs. nonmoral political content on social media engagement, the specifics of how distinct moral messaging captivates public attention remain unexplored. Scrutinizing over 10,000 original tweets from 2018 US Senate election candidates, the present work addresses this gap through natural language processing combined with machine and deep ...
5 days ago · The best way to accomplish this is to learn and use ways of interacting and communicating that promote honesty in a civil and respectful manner. The goal of each human interaction should be to seek common ground and strengthen the relationship, not to defeat your “enemy” by winning an argument.
4 days ago · This includes the history and future of human societies, life, and the planetary history of the earth. Such a perspective partly accounts for the argument I made for the importance of going beyond the human and social sciences to take into account perspectives in the earth sciences and the life sciences.
2 days ago · Democracy (from Ancient Greek: δημοκρατία, romanized : dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') [1] is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state. [2] Under a minimalist definition of democracy, rulers are elected through competitive elections while more expansive ...
