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Nevo: Unity is great. Progress is better.

January 28, 2021

Unity took center stage at President Joe Biden’s inauguration last week. But in an era of extreme polarization, what does unity look like? For many in Washington, unity is not a call for real bipartisanship,...

Nevo: How we can heal

November 8, 2020

After four days of constantly refreshing the Associated Press website and after four years of nightmarish democratic havoc, Americans breathe a sigh of relief as Joe Biden is our president-elect. Even...

Lamps: Don’t appeal to the wishes of the Founding Fathers in modern discourse

January 8, 2016

The American Founding Fathers were a remarkable group of leaders and thinkers, to whom we owe much wisdom. However, there is a tendency in modern political discourse to treat them as infallible and to...

Lamps: Humans’ unique ability to access others’ thoughts

October 13, 2015

Considering how far humans have come since our hunter-gatherer ancestors, we are clearly a unique species. We believe in gender equality, we think people with different skin colors are equals and we think...

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