Outside the Beltway

The frequency and ease with which this President lies is, to say the least, alarming.

There are twice as many suicides as homicides in America.

Will Bunch wildly exaggerates the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Kids are more likely to be killed driving to school than shot while there. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and prevent them.

Donald Trump spent much of the past year touting the rising stock market, now he’s getting a lesson in reality.

Report that President Trump considered withdrawing the Gorsuch nomination are another sign of his unhealthy obsession with pledges of loyalty from people who have no business giving it to him.

On North Korea, there are two options, deterrence and war. And only one of those options makes sense.

When a prominent political scientist committed suicide yesterday, I was deeply struck by how much he was like not only me but most of the people in my professional circle.

The first Jobs Report for the first full month of the Trump Presidency is out, but it’s nothing to write home about.

It seems as though 2016 has taken many more celebrities lives than past years.

In which I use a lot of words to say hello.

The cartoonist and student of human psychology is fascinated by the con artist who would be president.

The GOP race for President takes yet another bizarre turn.

Should we treat terrorists as trolls?

People don’t much care whether information supporting their prejudices is true.

There’s no excuse for the former NBC anchor’s lies. But there are reasons.

As usual, politicians and pundits are helping to create a climate of fear and concern about Ebola that is not justified by the facts.

People possess a strong reciprocity instinct and are much more likely to purchase a product if they’ve taken a free sample.

Dedicated reading improves our brains and our health—unless it’s on a computer screen.

Too regularly engage in “bedtime procrastination,” creating a vicious cycle.

The Texas GOP wants to “pray away the gay.”

In no small part because of a brutal winter, the economy shrank in the first three months of the year.

Ray Rice celebrated his aggravated assault indictment by marrying his victim.

Tonight, the American political system stops to engage in the biggest waste of time ever invented.

Most peer-reviewed research is crap.

Scientists have discovered that heterosexual men alter their behavior around women.

Don’t blame Dallas, or 60s era Texas conservatism, for what happened in Dallas 50 years ago,

Nick Brown spelled bullshit and managed to debunk an entire academic subfield.

Bradley Manning’s announcement that she wishes to begin living life as a woman poses some interesting legal questions.

There’s no such thing as “sex addiction.”

Ronnie Koenig reveals “What Being Editor in Chief of Playgirl Taught Me About Female Desire.”

NYU’s Geoffrey Miller has done a groundbreaking study connecting obesity, and particularly the consumption of simple carbohydrates, with failure to complete doctoral dissertations.

Dr. Keith Ablow lays out the case that President Obama is conducting psychological warfare on us.

Apparently, some significant number of people are starving themselves to “save calories” for getting drunk.

Habemus Papam

John Karlin, an industrial psychologist for Bell Labs that you’ve probably never heard of, has died aged 94.

A wonderfully descriptive story in the New York Times Style section that’s almost surely mere anecdote being touted as trend.

A columnist for The Guardian says she wishes her mother had aborted her.

Albert Mannes shaved his head when he started to go bald. Now, he has done research showing it was a wise decision.

Our psychological and cultural biases make evaluating information and arguments rationally next to impossible.

Ted Nugent, whose music I really liked when I was in junior high school, said something vile and crazy.

Once again, those predictions of $5.00 gas may have been much ado about nothing.

Solutions come from understanding, not denial or political posturing

My armchair pop psychology on George Zimmerman, the man who gunned down innocent black teenager Trayvon Martin, appears on target.