Highlights
• Fighting a pandemic in poor countries may involve not just a trade-off between lives and livelihoods, but an even more…
What happens to a society—and a planet—when capitalism outgrows democracy? The tensions between democracy and capitalism are longstanding,…
Who are the girls who decide to sign up for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs and coding clubs? In this…
We study the relationship between teachers' stereotypes and students' high school choice in a setting where students can enroll in more or…
The downsides of density, including traffic congestion, contagious disease and crime, were common in Victorian London and classical Rome,…
The present article reviews a growing body of research on receptiveness to opposing views—the willingness to access, consider, and evaluate…
China's lending boom to developing countries is morphing into defaults and debt distress. Given the secrecy surrounding China's loans, the…
The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines
This essay takes an engineering approach to ensuring that the deployment of artificial intelligence does not confound ethical principles,…
Purpose: Demolishing abandoned buildings has been found to reduce nearby firearm violence. However, these effects might vary within cities…
May 1, 2022, Opinion: "“My hope is that it creates world peace or helps create world peace.” That’s what Jack Dorsey, the former Twitter…