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All The Kings Cowards
The Waiting Room
In Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments, the people who pressed the lever were not the most disturbing part of the study. The most disturbing part was the waiting room.
Milgram documented something in 1963 that no...
MAGA Isn't Broken. This Is What It Was Built to Do.
The Comfort of a Category
People do not cheer for cruelty; they cheer for the security they believe it provides. When a political movement applauds the deportation of refugees or the summary execution of suspects at sea, it is not witn...
The Party Switch MAGA Needs You to Misunderstand
Introduction
In 1981, Lee Atwater was working in the Reagan White House when he sat down with political scientist Alexander Lamis and explained, on tape, how American conservatives had learned to win the votes of racists without soundi...
MAGA's Favorite Lie: The Left Is the Real Terror Threat
Introduction
The argument that the American left is the primary source of political violence in the United States requires ignoring thirty years of data, the federal government’s own commissioned research, peer-reviewed findings from f...
The Library They Burned: How MAGA Made Climate Denial American Policy
On April 17, 2026, the President of the United States stood in Phoenix, Arizona, one of the hottest cities in one of the hottest countries during the hottest documented stretch in American climate history, and told a crowd that the planet i...
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I’m Edward Harrington, a 36-year-old independent writer with a background in psychology. I cover social issues, politics, and current events through the lens of human behavior and power dynamics. https://buymeacoffee.com/therationalleague
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