Simon A Rego PsyD, ABPP, ACT Oh Sh*t! You’ve Just Stepped Into the Cognitive Model! Imagine for a moment you’re watching the season finale of Game of Thrones or the recent FIFA…
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What Does Your Body Say About You?
Matt James Ph.D. How you can be a better listener. “The human body is the best picture of the human soul.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein Here’s an instant Rorschach-type test: How did…
7 Ways (Besides Sex) To Emotionally Connect With Your Partner
by Robert Augustus Masters Without emotional intimacy, relationships founder on the reefs of emotional discord or flatness—no matter how heated the sex, no matter how much we hold in common—leaving…
Racial Anxiety Can Perpetuate Racial Inequalities
Meaningful contact between groups can reduce racial anxiety and bias By Linda R. Tropp, PhD (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Rachel D. Godsil (Seton Hall University School of Law) Most…
Football really is America’s religion
That’s what made the NFL protests so powerful. The macho Christianity behind American sports culture, explained. Updated by Tara Isabella Burton@NotoriousTIB tara.burton@vox.com This weekend, the football arena became a political…
From Louis Armstrong to the N.F.L.: Ungrateful as the New Uppity
By Jelani Cobb Trump’s invective toward N.F.L. players who kneel during the national anthem (such as members of the Jacksonville Jaguars, above) highlights the racially charged demands facing black entertainers.…
La jury system is a vestige of white supremacy
By Angela A. Allen-Bell Angela A. Allen-Bell is an associate professor of legal writing and analysis and the B. K. Agnihotri Endowed Professor at the Southern University Law Center in…
The Trumps and Russia
by Roy Rodney All the lies. Lies on top of lies. Lies straight to the face of every American. Lies under oath. Lies to hide crimes. Lies to prevent further…
Protest at Your Own Peril
New Report Details Baton Rouge Police Mistreatment of Locked Up Alton Sterling Protesters By Andrea Armstrong. Andrea Armstrong is an Associate Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans,…
HEAL SPECTACULAR LEGISLATIVE SUCCESSES STYMIED BY GOV EDWARDS
Opinion by Pat Bryant A two-month battle to save the Health Education Authority of Louisiana from abolishment at the hands of New Orleans Senator Karen Carter Peterson met success last…