Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Right-wing Twitter sure went to town with “justice-impacted individual” this week, it being the kind of clueless phraseology that ...

PARIS—Viral news about the world’s battlefields, often dubious and occasionally outrageous, went completely delirious over the last few days. A Moscow broadcaster presented bogus “proof” that the ...

George Packer has a good review essay of a new book about the George Orwell novel 1984. Excerpt: For example, many on the left now share an unacknowledged but common assumption that a good work of art ...

The corollary to that is to be required to believe or at least express belief in things that one knows not to be true. In the distant past, which is to say around six months ago, most people were able ...

It's often the case that we don’t have time to carefully evaluate everything in life. We often take shortcuts. If a reputable authority takes a position, it is convenient and usually safe to just ...

That’s when someone believes two mutually contradictory beliefs. The term comes from George Orwell’s novel “1984,” in which the government ruling party issued absurd dictums such as “War is Peace,” ...

Cognitive dissonance is defined as the discomfort one feels when holding to two mutually exclusive thoughts. It is natural to feel such discomfort since one of the thoughts must obviously be false.