A psychiatric diagnosis is far from perfect, but can be more than an unkind ‘label’

7 minute read "When I was training as a clinical psychologist, I had a rotation in a low-cost psychotherapy clinic. Among the first people I met was a young man who believed that he might be responsible for harm coming to his family if he didn’t engage in time-consuming rituals, including arranging his shoes very particularly for up to half an hour," writes Huw Green, University of Cambridge (Feb. 19th, 2020)

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KAMADIA – Victorious Sanders supporters feeling the Bern, as Elites feel Heartburn: State of the Race (Some thoughts / Q&A)

"Though even as he claimed the majority of votes in the first two States, Sanders was all too sober about the challenges that lied in any path to victory. His enemies were watching on full alert," writes Aly Kamadia, Editor-In-Chief, iDose (Feb 12th, 2020)

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This is how ancient Rome’s republic Died: A Classicist sees troubling parallels at Trump’s impeachment trial

4 minute read "Many higher-ups in the Trump administration, from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to former Secretary of Energy Rick Perry to former Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, have spoken publicly of Trump as a divinely chosen figure. And Trump himself declared earlier this year, 'I do really believe we have God on our side,'" writes Timothy Joseph, College of the Holy Cross (Feb. 12th, 2020)

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If Bloomberg Wants To Buy an Election, He Should Run as a Republican Against Trump, and Not Attack Democrats

4 minute read "Bloomberg could spend $100 million every single day on his presidential campaign between now and election day in November...and he would still have a net worth greater than $30 billion," writes Robert McChesney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Feb. 12th, 2020)

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