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749 Stop romanticizing the 1990s. The data shows today is better.

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Bryan Walsh @ Vox · 08/12/2025 08:30 EDT

Stop romanticizing the 1990s. The data shows today is better.

Let me introduce you to four of the most dangerous words in politics: “the good old days.” Humans have a demonstrated tendency to remember the past as better than it actually was. It’s called “nostalgia bias,” and it can lead to us unfairly comparing the conditions of the present to some better imagined past. Memory, […]

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