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January 17, 2019 8:50 am
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The most important number in America for our future as a country is the percentage of our children from every group who are learning ready at age four. We will be badly damaged as a country if we do not reduce the learning gaps in our schools. The learning gaps in our high schools today across the country are huge — and those gaps have...
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November 20, 2018 9:45 pm
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ISIS And Al Qaeda Are Landlocked … And Only Tribes Can Defeat Them Primal Pathways, Peace in Our Time, Cusp of Chaos, and The Art of InterGroup Peace all describe the major impacts that our instinctive tribal behaviors have on people across the planet. Anyone who doubts the direct and major impact our instinctive tribal behaviors have on the world today can have their doubts...
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October 29, 2018 4:36 am
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We have important new information about the impact of racism on the preterm birth rates in our country. We have a very high number of preterm births compared to other countries — and those numbers are getting worse. The percentage of preterm births in this country has just gone up for the second year in a row. More than 130 other countries have lower preterm...
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September 8, 2018 8:57 pm
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There are some key numbers that need to be known and understood in order for us to understand what needs to happen now in that troubled city. Forty-one people were shot in seven hours in Chicago last week. Eighty-five people were shot that week. More than 3,000 people were shot last year. More than 600 of those shooting victims died. More than 80 percent of...
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July 4, 2018 4:36 am
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We are at high risk of tribalizing as a country, and doing very negative and damaging things to one another in the context of our basic sets of inter group instincts. Those behaviors that put us at high risk of being damaged will be rooted in the purely instinctive need we each have at a very basic level to be part of an Us. We...
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April 30, 2018 4:58 pm
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We owe it to ourselves as a country and as a nation to tell the truth to one another. We owe it to ourselves as a country to make telling the truth our personal commitment and our mutual agreement and understanding, and our basic and foundational approach to sharing information and to communicating directly with one another. Telling the truth can help us survive as...
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April 16, 2018 11:00 pm
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The science of brain development for children is increasingly clear — and we have failed miserably in sharing that very clear and important science about the powerful impact of development activities in the first weeks, months, and years of life for each child in useful and effective ways with far too many families and parents in America. More than half of our births this year...
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March 31, 2018 6:42 pm
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Some people believe that we are at a point in our history where we should provide Medicare Coverage to every American. Medicare for All. That idea has significant merit at several levels — but it would not do as many good things for us as a country and as consumers of health care services as we would receive if we went one step beyond Medicare...
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January 5, 2018 5:32 pm
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Very few things are more emotionally seductive than mob behavior activated in the context of a tribe. We instinctively form tribes of various kinds — and our identity and sense of who we are can be heavily shaped at any given moment and situation by the tribe we belong to at that point in time. We form racial, ethnic, political, religious, organizational, and even ideological...
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December 16, 2017 7:15 pm
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We face a serious risk of having tribal behaviors destroy us as a nation. Very few of our instinctive behaviors have more ability to influence our thinking, emotions, and behaviors than the instincts to tribalize and then divide the world into Us and Them based on our tribal alignment. Our instincts to divide the world into Us and Them have the power to do serious...
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