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You Tell Us: Are Adjunct Professors the New Fast-Food Workers?
Career
March 3, 2015

You Tell Us: Are Adjunct Professors the New Fast-Food Workers?

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‘Reasonable Suspicion’ That Race Matters in the Immigration Debate
Resources
August 12, 2013

‘Reasonable Suspicion’ That Race Matters in the Immigration Debate

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A Guide for These Uncertain Times
International Debate
July 30, 2013

A Guide for These Uncertain Times

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Save the Humanities—From Themselves
Academic Funding
June 21, 2013

Save the Humanities—From Themselves

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Outlawed Research

Outlawed Research

Congress just cut funding for political science because they don’t understand the good it does. Here are four excellent examples.

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We Aren’t the World

We Aren’t the World

Joe Henrich and his colleagues are shaking the foundations of psychology and economics—and hoping to change the way social scientists think about human behavior and culture.

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Are Vocational Education, Liberal Arts on a Collision Course?

Are Vocational Education, Liberal Arts on a Collision Course?

As even liberal arts colleges continue to turn their back on the liberal arts, where will the technocrats produced by higher education hone their thinking skills to address the current crisis in governing?

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Can We Make College Cheaper?

Can We Make College Cheaper?

The authors of “Why Does College Cost So Much?” take a look at the root causes and determine that we can reduce the price of higher education, but not dramatically.

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The Formula

The Formula

How an equation cooked up by Mussolini’s numbers guy came to define how we think about inequality—from Occupy Wall Street to the World Bank to the billionaires at Davos—and why it’s time to find a new way of looking at the numbers.

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Money Degrades Our Ability to Empathize

Money Degrades Our Ability to Empathize

New research finds that offering people money makes them less likely to correctly infer another person’s emotional state.

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Gangster Anthropologist

Gangster Anthropologist

Jorja Leap immersed herself in the culture of Los Angeles’ notorious street gangs for over 10 years, interviewing and working with hundreds of active and former gang members.

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Hate Rock 101

Hate Rock 101

A sociologist explains why Sikh temple shooter Wade M. Page’s white-power music scene is dying out, just as we’re all discovering it.

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