Conventional Wisdom

HuffPost and Freakonomics: The Hidden Side of Everything (Video Slideshow)

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.24.2012

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I'm delighted to announce that this week HuffPost Business is presenting a video collaboration (freakoration?) with Stephen Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics and Super Freakonomics.

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What If Health Were More Like Wealth?

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 05.09.2012

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We routinely squander and neglect something we would hate to have taken from us, and would surely fight to prevent someone taking from our loved ones. It's certainly wisdom, it's just not yet conventional to acknowledge that health is wealth. Making it conventional is up to us.

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7 Steps to a Loving Family

Jinny Ditzler | Posted 08.21.2011

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Nothing's worse than the loss of love and connection with family. The silent heartache that robs us of one of life's joys. We respond with denial, but what we too often don't do is let go, apologize and give up the feeling of being right.

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Axis of Agreement Watch: Joe Klein's "Lucky" Strategy

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

Obama would be wise to ignore Klein and decide not to play chicken with the numbers. Afghanistan will not magically right itself, particularly now as Petraeus can inflame the violence as much as he pleases.

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An Example Of How Civil Political Discourse Threatens Modern Conservatism

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The conventional wisdom among this city's elite is that if liberals and conservatives would only sit down and actually listen to each ot...

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Bridging the Enthusiasm Gap: Obama and the Conventional Wisdom

Derek Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama and his White House team seem a little too sorry for themselves and lack genuine self-analysis of the president's political problems.

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Pull, Pull, Pull to the Left: On Rove's Revisionism and Obama's "Failing" Presidency

Peter Daou | Posted 05.25.2011

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Unfortunately, the President, his advisers, and many Democratic leaders and strategists are captives of the same Beltway mindset that tells us Iraq is a resounding success and Obama's problem is the liberal blogosphere.

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We Got Some Kind of Health Care Reform -- Now What?

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 05.25.2011

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For once in a blue moon Democrats have a line they can sell that is both positive and simple. That almost never happens. It's almost always the GOP who can put its message on a bumper sticker.

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Primary Victory Over Conventional Wisdom

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Democrats had better relish their victory in PA 12 while they can, because this weekend a special election in Hawaii is likely to elect a Republican in a very Democratic district.

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For Valentine's Day: 3 Myths About Finding Love

Susan Piver | Posted 11.17.2011

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Let's have a look at some of the myths about love that only set you up to fall for the bogus Cupid -- hook, line, and lingerie.

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How To See Beauty In The Mundane

William Horden | Posted 11.17.2011

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And, it seems, they are able to reconcile the great trials and hardships of life, finding in them acts of love, compassion, and self-sacrifice.

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5 Reasons Why Women Love 'Men of A Certain Age'

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

A groundbreaking dramedy explores the bonds of late-middle-age male friendships. What women love most about this show is that we finally get a glimpse of male friendships that resemble our own!

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Sotomayor and the New Haven Firefighters Case: More Myths Than Facts

Lanny Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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From a surprisingly broad left-to-right spectrum, the Conventional Wisdom punditry seems to have decided that Judge Sotomayor was wrong on the law.

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No Regrets, Let's Clean Up the Mess Together

Jim Selman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Let's transform our conventional wisdom about age as something that segments and divides us socially, politically, economically and spiritually.

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Is Cap-And-Trade Dead This Year?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Democrats are all but admitting that they're killing off cap-and-trade for this year's legislative season. When the time comes, they will be blaming the Republicans, even though their own cowardice is the real culprit.

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Q&A with Housing Bubble Forecaster Dean Baker

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Baker: "For most economists, the idea that a market would take leave from its senses -- that it would be driven by speculation -- is almost inconceivable."

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The Seven Biggest Conventional Wisdom Blunders Of The 2008 Election

Salon | Mike Madden and Walter Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

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This has been a campaign season when the conventional wisdom has fared about as well as Bob Barr's prospects for moving into the Oval Office. During ...

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Play 23/6's Conventional Wisdom Game And You Could Win $1,000!

236.com | 23/6: The News, But Funnier | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don't have a clue about the national political conventions? Think David Axelrod is the less-talented brother of that guy from Guns 'n' Roses? Have we ...

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John McCain, Paris Hilton, and the Politics of Nothing

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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The McCain camp knows that the only way they can win the election is to turn it into a carnival sideshow. If this is where they have taken the political discourse in early August, what have they got for us come October?

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Attack Of The Conventional Wisdom: Media Narrative Tilts Toward The Obvious

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The fact that we have reached the zero hour is a great relief, if only because the media is running out of things to say.

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