William McGurn asks why Chuck Schumer hasn’t called the Democratic Party back to its pro-Israel and Jewish roots (“Schumer’s Tragedy—and Ours,” Main Street, July 14). The harder question may be why so ...

Israelis are in a pickle. Most of them love Donald Trump, but now that he has signed a ceasefire deal with their nemesis Iran that isolates their country, they’re in a state of cognitive dissonance.

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For years, I have tried to understand how and why so many of my family and friends, good and intelligent people, buy into the Trump-MAGA promise of quick and easy solutions to complex problems. I see ...

Kyle Orland of ArsTechnica wrote a blog post about the term “cognitive surrender” on April 3. Maybe I should have noticed it sooner since it’s been floating around since at least January, when it was, ...

Markets thrive on contradictions. Every buyer needs a seller—and each thinks they are making a good trade despite the likelihood that the other is at least as well-informed as they are. Investors know ...

A recent New Yorker article, “Is Cognitive Dissonance Actually a Thing?”, strongly implies that the answer to that question is “No.” The article arrived at this answer by considering a 1956 ...

A discussion on how turn-earning at ski areas presents a unique setting, and a complicated psychological landscape, for the human-powered skier. Our skis skidded and chattered as we descended each ...

This post was updated March 1 at 8:32 p.m. When was the last time you procrastinated? Are you doing it right now? For many college students, procrastination is one of the most common examples of ...

In 1934, an 8.0-magnitude earthquake hit eastern India, killing thousands and devastating several cities. Curiously, in areas that were spared the worst destruction, stories soon spread that an even ...

President Trump presided over a Congo-Rwanda peace deal on the same day his administration was being questioned about potential war crimes. By Shawn McCreesh Reporting from Washington See more of our ...