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' At the current rate of progress, it will take another 108 years to reach gender parity, according to the World Economic Forum’s most recent Global Gender Gap report. Citing reams of psychological research, findings that by now have become more or less familiar, Rosenberg makes his case that human beings don’t think straight. It's been an eventful year so far, from drone strikes in Iran to presidential campaigns. The Shocking Paper Predicting the End of Democracy. Oil change scams: Hidden camera investigation on what really happens to your car (CBC Marketplace) - Duration: 21:09. But this is less a burden than an advantage. And when it comes to the U.S., the problem might be larger than one man. 3:23 p.m. It requires thoughtfulness, discipline and logic.Unfortunately, evolution did not favor the exercise of these qualities in the context of a modern mass democracy. What is happening around the world shows that the far-right is on the march. Today in History Today is Sunday, Aug. 30, the 243rd day of 2020. The growing use of social media fueled mass protest movements, bringing millions of people together around the globe in pursuit of common objectives. Now that people get their news from social media rather than from established newspapers or the old three TV news networks (ABC, CBS and NBC), fake news proliferates. Humans just aren’t built for it.People have been saying for two millennia that democracy is unworkable, going back to Plato. Human brains aren’t built for self-rule, says Shawn Rosenberg. You can feel exactly the way you really want about people who belong to other tribes. November 2019 Current Events: Disaster News ... Get a daily dose of fun facts including birthdays, historical events, and more. Thanks to social media and new technologies, anyone with access to the Internet can publish a blog and garner attention for their cause—even if it’s rooted in conspiracy and is based on a false claim, like the lie that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring from the basement of a Washington D.C. pizza parlor, which ended in a shooting.While the elites formerly might have successfully squashed conspiracy theories and called out populists for their inconsistencies, today fewer and fewer citizens take the elites seriously. The Friday Cover is POLITICO Magazine's email of the week's best, delivered to your inbox every Friday morning.By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. From CNN's Grace Sparks Featured Events of 2020. And unlike democracy, which makes many demands, the populists make just one. Depending on which media talking head is speaking, the war is either a subversive effort by left-wing liberals to erase all traces of Take a look back at the most important events in politics, culture, science and the environment.© 2020 A&E Television Networks, LLC. These are only a few of the most prominent events of 2019.The redacted version of the Mueller Report released by the Justice Department shown on April 24, 2019.President Donald Trump answering questions from reporters on October 9, 2019, including the pending impeachment inquiry.Japan's Emperor Akihito, with Empress Michiko, visiting central Japan while partaking in a series of rituals ahead of his abdication in April 2019.British Prime Minister Theresa May pictured on May 24, 2019 announcing her resignation.Large crowds of protesters gathered in central Hong Kong on June 12, 2019 as the city braced for another mass rally in a show of strength against the government over a divisive plan to allow extraditions to China. Rescue efforts have ended at a two-story restaurant in a northern China village that collapsed during an 80th birthday celebration for a resident, leaving 29 dead Democracy is devouring itself—his phrase — and it won’t last.As much as President Donald Trump’s liberal critics might want to lay America’s ills at his door, Rosenberg says the president is not the cause of democracy’s fall—even if Trump’s successful anti-immigrant populist campaignDemocracy is hard work. That’s more evident than ever. Biases of various kinds skew our brains at the most fundamental level.