Author: Roy Eidelson

How To Sell An Indefensible Status Quo

Stocks plummet on Wall Street. Home foreclosures mount across the country. Shameless finger pointing and disavowals swirl in the nation’s capital. And a recent Gallup poll finds that a record-low 9% of Americans are...

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Martians and Election Day

It’s only fitting that a truly memorable demonstration of human gullibility will mark its 70th anniversary just before Election Day. On the night of October 30, 1938, thousands of radio listeners concluded that Orson...

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Anchors for Progressives

Imagine people randomly divided into two groups for a simple psychology experiment. Those assigned to one group are asked two questions. First, “Did Gandhi die before or after he reached the age of 140?” And then,...

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Forewarned Is Forearmed: Bush On Iran

The White House’s propaganda campaign laying the groundwork for military action against Iran dates back almost six years–to Bush’s 2002 State of the Union address in which he designated Iran as a founding...

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Congress Needs A Shot In The Arm

Author Note: The following essay was co-authored with Coleen Rowley, retired FBI agent and former Minneapolis division counsel. Among the most important public health advances of the past century has been the development of...

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