Women Can’t Do Math…Or Can They?
A pair of psychologists devised an experiment to see if they could improve women’s test scores in math by triggering positive self-images.
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A pair of psychologists devised an experiment to see if they could improve women’s test scores in math by triggering positive self-images.
Democratic leaders, impressed by the purported success of GOP-backed ballot initiatives to ban same sex marriage in the 2004 election are pushing their own wedge initiatives to increase the minimum wage. But are such ballot measures really as potent as claimed?
Hispanics in general, and recent immigrants in particular, are more inclined than blacks or whites to take an upbeat view about one of the most enduring tenets of the American dream — that each generation will do better in life than the one that preceded it.
African Americans are often more sympathetic to immigrants – except when it comes to jobs.
Not only is there evidence of a reawakening of young people to public life, but today’s youth are politically distinctive in many ways.
Although President Bush’s approval rating has declined as much among white evangelicals as among the public as a whole, so far evangelicals don’t seem likely to abandon the GOP this fall.
Forty years after a Time cover famously asked, “Is God Dead?” polls find the Almighty thriving in the nation’s collective consciousness.
From Medicaid to immigration, state lawmakers grapple with contentious issues as elections loom.
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