How did Adolf Hitler manage to successfully destroy German democracy? In his writings and speeches, Hitler comes across as deranged, paranoid, ignorant, buffoonish. And yet he successfully came to power through (mostly) democratic means, using his position to unleash the most systematic mass murder campaign in world history, and ultimately bringing ruin on his country and much of the rest of the continent. How could such a calamity happen? How did he convince people to support him? And how can we ensure that no such scenario ever plays out again?
In the 1970s, when researchers asked children to draw a scientist, 99 percent of them drew a man. As this experiment was repeated over 50 years, the number of women drawn increased, and within the past decade, more than half of girls will draw a woman when asked what a scientist looks like. Today, Google […]
Federal officers are firing so much tear gas at protesters outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, that some nearby community members who aren’t even protesting are struggling to breathe when they leave their homes to run errands. That’s according to a lawsuit filed this week by journalists and demonstrators who accuse the Department of […]