Poverty correlates with less brain development in schoolchildren.

Since this is not a controlled study, we don't know whether poverty causes the reduced brain development. It is implausible that the children's reduced brain development causes their parents to be poor. But there may be some other factor that causes both the parents' poverty and the children's reduced brain development. It would not be genetic differences, since the study controlled for that.

A few decades ago, musicians could succeed without being beautiful. Now they are under a lot of pressure to look good; it almost trumps how well they can play.

Banksters hate Elizabeth Warren, but they don't hate Clinton, and there's a good reason for that.

The practice of imprisoning lots of people in order to use them as slave workers has a long history in the US. Southern states did this to repress blacks.

In the UK, thugs have a general "macho, arrogant, bullying culture" that is found in strongest form in the heads of departments.