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The promise of opportunity that once defined American identity is fraying. Restoring it requires more than nostalgia — it demands a clear-eyed look at what economic mobility actually requires in the modern era.
ReadA striking WSJ/NORC poll shows patriotism, religion, and community involvement have all fallen sharply since 1998 — while money has risen. Mark Movsesian traces the pattern back to Tocqueville's warnings about individualism and the slow erosion of voluntary associations.
We have decades of robust research on human behavior and mental health. So why are we still doing it wrong? The distance between what psychologists know and what actually reaches people in need has become one of the most consequential failures in modern healthcare.
Logic and evidence are no longer the primary currencies of public debate. Algorithms reward outrage over analysis, institutions that once kept emotion in check are fracturing, and 'my truth' has displaced 'the truth.' The psychological and social forces behind a profound cultural shift.
Parental expectations may be the most underexamined factor in the story of falling academic achievement — and raising them costs nothing.
Loneliness is one of the most significant public health challenges of our time. And we're still treating it like a personal failing.
The idea that you have a singular purpose waiting to be discovered is one of the most unhelpful myths in popular psychology.
Marijuana's normalization has outpaced public understanding of its risks, leaving many clinicians and patients blind to the cognitive, emotional, sleep, and psychiatric problems it can cause or worsen.
“The most dangerous ideas in psychology aren't the wrong ones. They're the oversimplified ones.”
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