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Play it again, Sam.

Think of all the times, you’ve talked with friends about the latest movie or show you’ve seen or dropped lines from movies in conversation. These lines become shorthand in our daily script, conveying meaning or

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Let’s talk about the food

Many people are traveling home for Christmas or other family gatherings this weekend. For some this is an easy time, something they look forward to. For others it can be challenging, fraught with tension. For

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7 actors on stage in front of a sign of the musical's title "how to dance in Ohio"

It’s a moment of undoing

“It’s a moment of undoing.” Hearing this short phrase, that so powerfully captures the pain and erasure inherent in stereotyping, took my breath away.

Hearing how it applied to autistic people – “If you’ve met one

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The Politics of Delusion

There are very real — and substantial — policy differences separating the Democratic and Republican Parties. At the same time, what scholars variously describe as misperception and even delusion is driving up the intensity of

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