Society

Paradoxically, we lose wars because the world is peaceful and the U.S. is powerful.

Jeffrey Clemens has an excellent piece summarizing his work on the economics of opium production and foreign policy: From the perspective of Eurasian heroin traffickers, raw opium accounts for a small share of the cost of reaching either their middle- or high-income consumers. Most of the cost is driven by the expenses and risks associated […]

Clinging to a concrete footbridge in Philadelphia are two groups of figures in tangled clusters. The striking installation is attached to a 20-foot walkway arched over 1200 Cuthbert Street in City Center and is the latest work of artist Miguel Horn, who is known for his fragmented sculptures and lar

Selling the story of disinformation

Machine learning isn't just for big companies any more

condition wherein things appear more beautiful than they are.

Privacy is coming to the internet and cookies are going away. This is long overdue - but we don’t know what happens next, we don’t have much consensus on what online privacy actually means, and most of what’s on the table conflicts fundamentally with competition.

How a Louisiana university got a gradual name upgrade in the eyes of state law—and of college football (of course).

Learn about how Yelp upkeeps its company values in a remote work setting, and tips from Yelp's tech leaders on interviewing.

Medical science can save lives, but should it do so at the cost of quality of life?

In Louisiana, high school starts at 7:30 am. Research shows that is at least an hour too early.

Our latest Crosscut/Elway Poll says city, suburban and rural residents of Washington continue to move apart, but it seems like everyone is feeling left behind.

Leisure? Bah, humbug!

The coronavirus pandemic threw everyone into Walden Pond.

In a recently published meeting agenda, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs teaches a master class in how to write a strategic plan.

Under Trump, the DOJ did all it could to break the spirit of the Black Lives Matter movement that took on renewed vigor last spring following yet another killing of an unarmed black person by a white cop. That's according to a report [PDF] by The...

Today’s 3D-printed "ghost guns" can look, feel, and shoot like factory-made weapons.

If there's nothing wrong with discussing Black voters, Hispanic neighborhoods and Native American culture, why is the media so afraid to mention whiteness?

I've got an ID school buddy whose father was in the NYPD. Worked his way up from patrolman and retired as a detective. Despite what you see in the movies, he did his full tour without ever firing his gun once, except at the range, and his career spanned the

From a DataViz perspective, I think this is a great use of a Sankey Diagram. This is hierarchical data where each level breaks down the detail from the level above.