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Explore the Bandwagon Fallacy: Uncover the pitfalls of relying on popularity as a measure of truth. Learn how this common logical error influences opinions, advertising, and even political discourse. Enhance your critical thinking skills to navigate a world where the number of believers doesn’t necessarily validate an argument.
President Barack Obama late in his second term oversaw a regulation that called for workers making up to $47,476 to be automatically entitled to time-and-a-half overtime pay. The move infuriated businesses and Republicans, who sought to block the rule in both Congress and the courts. Donald Trumpās election and a Texas judgeās ruling in 2016 led the Labor Department to revisit the matter and set a significantly lower threshold of $35,568.
During Bidenās first six months in office, government agencies and critical companies were beset by cyberattacks. These incidents included the SolarWinds hack, which involved Russian government hackers infiltrating around a dozen agencies for at least a year. Ransomware attacks were also a major source of concern, with the administration forced to reckon with Colonial Pipeline, the source of almost half of the East Coastās fuel supply, shutting down operations in May 2021. In the years since, cybersecurity concerns have only increased, including a Chinese-linked breach last year that impacted email accounts at the Commerce and State departments, skyrocketing new vulnerabilities opened up by the use of artificial intelligence technologies, and new geopolitical-linked targeting of critical systems.
Climate change and decades of overuse have shrunk the Colorado River and are forcing the seven states that use the river to negotiate how to divvy up cuts or risk it going dry. At stake is the water for 40 million people from Wyoming to the U.S.-Mexico border as well as powerhouse farming operations that irrigate some of the countryās most productive farmland.
Trump got personally involved in negotiations for Boeingās Air Force One replacement soon after he took office, bragging on Twitter that he had successfully reduced the price of the contract with Boeing by āover $1 billion.ā Soon after, Boeing agreed to a $3.9 billion contract with the Air Force stipulating the company would be responsible for any cost overruns on the planes. But Trumpās involvement in the project didnāt stop there. In 2019, he told ABC News he wanted a new red, white and blue paint scheme, which bore a striking resemblance to his private 757. When Biden took office, he was faced with a decision on whether to keep Trumpās paint scheme, or go back to the traditional colors.
Joe Biden arrived in Los Angeles to raise money for his campaign, Trump confirmed a list of names on his running mate short list and is busy zeroing in on issues that donāt exist, New York Attorney General Letitia James said that she might seize Trump Tower if he canāt come up with the money to pay his $355 million fine, Hunter Bidenās attorneys say that federal prosecutors mistakenly believed that they found a picture of cocaine that was actually just sawdust, and in celebration of all the POTUS talk this week – we play our very popular game āOn The Money!ā
Desi Lydic dives into Trumpās Laura Ingraham Town Hall, and how Bidenās impeachment case is falling apart after informant Alexander Smirnov was revealed to be lying to the FBI. Plus, Jordan Klepper weighs in with some political analysis on Bidenās ability to be both a doddering old man and a criminal mastermind simultaneously.
The IRS has not introduced a tax incentive for U.S. families to house immigrants in exchange for labor. A bogus claim that was originally posted as satire is circulating on social media without a disclaimer.
In a Feb. 20 town hall in South Carolina that aired on Fox News, days before the stateās Republican primary, former President Donald Trump repeated several false and misleading claims weāve fact-checked before.
Agriculture produces about 10 percent of U.S. carbon emissions, and itās been a priority of Bidenās climate plan to nudge the nationās farmers and ranchers toward greener, less carbon-intensive ways of producing food.
Defense officials have for years talked about how drones will play a central role in future wars, but other than fiddling at the margins, little has been done to build a large, AI-enabled network of military uncrewed vehicles. The worry in Washington has been that Beijing is ahead of the United States in developing the military use of drones and its growing drone fleets could swarm and confuse the radars and air defenses of U.S. warships, and critical bases in Guam and Japan.
Trump and his supporters caused chaos throughout the certification of the 2020 election in Congress, pushing slates of āfake electors,ā pressuring then-Vice President Mike Pence to toss out the votes from legitimate electors, and even after the counting of electoral votes was interrupted by insurrectionists, pro-Trump Republicans in both chambers voted to object to the results. When it was over, there was a sense that the holes in our election certification process needed to be plugged.
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Since the Enron and WorldCom scandals, the U.S. has allowed companies to publicly list their stocks only if they agree to let federal watchdogs review their auditorsā work. Yet for years, Beijing authorities, citing national security concerns, refused to allow U.S. inspectors to examine the books of China- and Hong Kong-based companies. Bidenās regulators finally forced their hand with the help of Congress and even former President Donald Trump.
Explore the pitfalls of the appeal to popularity fallacy and how it distorts rational discourse. Learn to discern truth from mere popularity through critical thinking and evidence-based analysis.
Biden touted his campaign to eliminate so-called junk fees ā the hidden charges that often come as a surprise to the consumer, taking aim at the fees levied by airlines, cable companies, concert ticket-sellers and hotels, among other businesses. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2022 launched an initiative to expand the crackdown to target financial fees, training its scrutiny in particular on credit card late charges and the insufficient-fund fees that banks impose.
Learn about the Circular Reasoning Fallacy, a logical trap where the premise and conclusion of an argument are essentially the same, creating a self-referential loop devoid of meaningful evidence. Understand how to identify, avoid, and unravel this deceptive form of reasoning to foster critical thinking and logical analysis in discourse.
Unveiling the Appeal to Ignorance Fallacy: Delve into the subtle yet potent adversary of sound reasoning. Learn how this fallacy exploits gaps in knowledge, perpetuates misinformation, and hampers critical thinking. Discover strategies to counter it and foster rational discourse.
In 1977, Congress passed a law to combat a practice known as redlining, where for decades the government had discouraged lenders from extending mortgage loans to borrowers in Black neighborhoods. The law requires banks to lend to creditworthy lower-income people in the same neighborhoods where they have branches that take deposits. But the growth of the internet and mobile banking have made those rules increasingly obsolete. Banks, in effect, had a major presence in many neighborhoods where they had no branches.
Even before a bipartisan group of senators unveiled the text of a foreign aid and immigration overhaul bill on Feb. 4, it faced significant opposition from former President Donald Trump and other Republican leaders. Weāll explain what was in the legislation and the facts on two popular talking points.
