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There is a major psychological flaw in how society punishes people

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By Raihan Alam, Tage Rai
| New Scientist Verified
People transgress. They get punished. They start cooperating. This basic intuition that people are rational, and so respond to punishment by changing their behaviour, lies at the heart of Western legal systems, economic theories of crime and evolutionary theories of cooperation. The only problem is that decades of research suggest that punishment doesn’t actually seem to work.
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Banning stock trading in Congress is a crucial step toward restoring public trust

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By Raihan Alam
| The Hill Verified
A group of Senate Democrats recently announced they will re-introduce a bill to ban stock trading by members of Congress and their families. The renewed call comes about a month after members of Congress, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), disclosed large stock purchases just before the Trump administration announced a 90-day pause on tariffs when the market jumped 10 percent. As many know, this problem occurs on both sides of the aisle.
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Opinion - Banning stock trading in Congress is a crucial step toward restoring public trust

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By Raihan Alam
| Yahoo Verified
A group of Senate Democrats recently announced they will re-introduce a bill to ban stock trading by members of Congress and their families. The renewed call comes about a month after members of Congress, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), disclosed large stock purchases just before the Trump administration announced a 90-day pause on tariffs when the market jumped 10 percent. As many know, this problem occurs on both sides of the aisle.
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