People are being way too hard on Louie Gohmert. His proposal to give the outgoing Vice-President total power to select the next President makes a lot of sense. Popular elections are too complicated, prolonged, messy, and democratic.

Trump WILL lose in November. He WILL challenge the results. His die-hard base WILL take to the streets. And the fate of our precious democracy will be in the hands of Republicans like Marco Rubio, Mike DeWine, John Roberts, and more concerning Mitch McConnell, and Kevin McCarthy.

Notice the top line: Among Trump’s base, even those who believe immigrants make America better agree that immigration should be reduced. For details see: kirkusreviews.com/book-revie…

The central motivation of Trump’s true supporters has always been security from what they see as “outsider” threats: protesters, immigrants, norm violators, and foreign powers. Is it possible to watch the RNC and not agree? kirkusreviews.com/book-revie…

Want to experience a top-notch scholar integrating the theoretical and empirical bases of a vital, politically-relevant framework? Read hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?…

If our country is FULL, does that mean white, Christian, long-time Americans should stop having babies?

Make sure you watch StarTalk w/ Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Nat Geo channel, Feb 6 at 11 pm EST. A special guest makes an appearance.

How people's sensitivity to threats illuminates the rise of Donald Trump wpo.st/p9kP2

A really interesting essay by Clay Naff: thehumanist.com/magazine/jan…

I have spent more time curled up in the fetal position in the last 36 hours than I have since I was in the womb.

Justice Roberts' recent claim that "judges are not politicians" is belied by his own ideologically charged and policy shaping behavior.

Brain responses to generic negative images make it possible to predict who is on the political left and right: cell.com/current-biology/ful…

Our research was featured on the Australian version of Dateline, though my co-author Kevin Smith hogged the airtime: sbs.com.au/news/dateline/sto…

The difference in liberals and conservatives responses to Ebola is fascinating and consistent with our expectations: kevinbsmith.com/wp/wp-conten….

Here is a really well-done essay on our research: salon.com/2014/07/29/secrets…

Basic individual-level psychological differences can be explained by the type of crop grown where people are raised: sciencemag.org/content/344/6…

Here is a recent post that might be of interest. It is on problems with the legal system: huffingtonpost.com/john-r-hi…

I continue to be fascinated by the transmission of parental experiences to offspring. Here is another article: nature.com/ncomms/2014/14042…