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Why there are costs to moral outrage

  • Written by Justin Tosi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer, University of Michigan
imageWhat exactly is outrage?Philip Pilosian/Shutterstock

Many Americans are morally outraged that U.S. President Donald Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey, who had been investigating possible links between Trump’s election campaign and the Russian government. Many others are angry that Comey accused President Trump of lying about the...

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