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A weekly trawl of Kevin Lewis' blog:

• Narrative and identity: it only takes half an hour.
• Defense hawks may just feel like personally out of control.
• Deconstructing O'Reilly.
• More evidence that, deep down, we're natural bigots.
• You may have heard of inattentional blindness; now comes inattentional deafness.
• Do politicians care more about good policy or getting reelected? You guessed it.
• Teddy bears for peace.
• Merely thinking about shared experiences with people from other cultures makes us less bigoted.
• We elect divided governments in part because we're each divided over how we feel about the parties.
• One way to lose voters: move the polls.
• Resistant to reforms? You might be sensitive to injustice.
• In case you didn't know: when it comes to legislative debates, Congressmembers like to talk about the policies, but media prefer to report on the politics.
• One way your House member hears you: how we vote on ballot measures.
• Is more vigorous democracy also more dissatisfied democracy?
• Opinionated news isn't necessarily more biasing news.
• Texting gets voters to the polls.
• Election reforms that help and hurt voter turnout.
• Special interest groups: a downer for economic growth.
• To know a gay guy is to support gay rights.
• Evidence that social networks spread information.