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• Human stupidity is nothing new in politics | Letters

  06-10-2025 18:33
  Gregorio Kohon looks at why we accept superficial slogans, pseudoscientific claims and comforting myths from our leaders, and Vaughan Dean writes about ‘Trumpery’As part of my academic paper How Could I Have Been So Stupid?, I argue that, throughout history, human stupidity has always been a relevant issue, with enormous political consequences (A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0, 2 October). Much of what we believe to be “rational” is shaped by delusion
  
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• What do antidepressants do?

  06-10-2025 17:53 via usatoday.com
  What experts want you to know about this powerful tool.
  
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• You can’t just press ‘undo’ on your life. To move forward, you must first feel your grief and rage

  06-10-2025 12:00
  Many of us try to reframe our disappointments, to put a happy face on sad circumstances. But the path to growth is paved with difficult emotions, and we have to experience them honestlyI hope you had a good summer: I did not. On the day we were supposed to be going on holiday, I was sitting in A&E with my husband, waiting for him to have urgent but routine surgery, which meant our travel plans had to be cancelled.From this experience I learned something valuable, all over again, about how ha
  
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