by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 7, 2020 | • Politics
No, The Government Did Not Break Up A Child Sex Trafficking Ring In Georgia Human trafficking has been having an eventful summer. In July, internet sleuths accused online retailer Wayfair of selling missing children in overpriced cabinets. In August, QAnon supporters...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 6, 2020 | • Politics, Barak Obama
How Capital Strikes Yanked Barack Obama’s Presidency to the Right Excerpt from Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It , by Tarun Banerjee, Michael Schwartz, and Kevin A. Young (Verso Books, July 2020). The Barack Obama administration...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 6, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing (So Far): Atrocities 1-889 Early in President Trump’s term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 5, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Why Trump Supporters Can’t Admit Who He Really Is Nothing bonds a group more tightly than a common enemy that is perceived as a mortal threat. To understand the corruption, chaos, and general insanity that is continuing to engulf the Trump campaign and much of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 5, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
In his last interview, Carl Sagan warned that America will be taken over by a ‘charlatan’ political leader Sagan never would have believed in a fortune tellers but dang this is...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 5, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Mental health experts explain why ‘fearful’ Trump supporters are still clinging to the president – despite his many failures A looming question in today’s political climate is: Why do Donald Trump’s devotees continue to support him...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 10, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Here’s every Trump administration official accused of using personal email for government work including Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings on Monday expanded an investigation into personal email use by Trump...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 22, 2020 | • Politics, Racism
Perspective | The truths ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ tells about white people I was probably 15 or 16 when I first read Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird.” I may have seen the movie before then (one I have watched countless times since)....
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 17, 2020 | • Politics, Journalism & Media
Fox News pushed coronavirus misinformation 253 times in just five days Fox News repeated coronavirus misinformation 253 times in its weekday coverage from July 6 through 10, including claims that undermined scientific research about the pandemic, eroded trust in...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 2, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Jones only recently became one of those children. “I’ve been on the side of evolution my whole life,” he confesses. Not so much the science end, he wanted me to understand. His had been the partying wing of agnosticism. Then his fiancé persuaded him to start attending...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 28, 2020 | • Politics, Behavior, Cognitive Bias, Psychology
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds The economist J.K. Galbraith once wrote, “Faced with a choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 28, 2020 | • Politics, Behavior, Psychology
The surprising reason people change their minds Wherever you look at the moment, we seem divided – Brexiteer or Remainer, pro-President Trump or against. And no matter how much we argue, none of us appear to change our minds. Whether at the dinner table or on...
