Advocacy Center for Equality and Democracy

I think everyone should make time to read Tuesday’s New York Times article Secret Kill List Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will, which discusses at length the process undertaken by President Obama and his staff in to decide “who should be the next to die.”  Glenn Greenwald has written three pieces, so far, [...]

Pretend that you are a loyal customer to a neighborhood shop called Abner’s Bakery.  You have bought your bread and a few other goods from Abner’s several times a week for the past twenty years.  Initially, you shopped there because it was nearby, you liked Abner (its charming owner who baked everything fresh daily with [...]

This is a quick post to highlight a couple of related dynamics that probably play a role in every presidential election in the United States:  loss aversion and the attraction effect. Loss aversion is “one of the most potent human biases” and leads to irrational behavior.  Experiments have shown that people have a significantly stronger [...]

There is an article in the Washington Post today that is worth reading because it highlights the inherently dishonest nature of partisan politics.  Entitled Cory Booker Commits the Classic Washington Gaffe, the article discusses the “fallout” from Cory Booker’s (Mayor of Newark, New Jersey) criticism of the Obama campaign’s ads that attack Mitt Romney’s relationship [...]

Yesterday, the Washington Post published an article by Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann that rejects several, and proposes several other, solutions to “the nation’s big, long-term problems.”  One solution that the authors reject is a third party.  Like most of the mainstream discourse on third parties, theirs is misleading and, overall, unhelpful for understanding America’s [...]

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