How Monopoly Was Invented to Demonstrate the Evils of Capitalism
Monopoly iencourages its players to celebrate exactly the opposite values to those its inventor intended to champion.
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Mindfulness Meditation Can Make Some Americans More Selfish and Less Generous
Why mindfulness practices don’t move seamlessly across cultures.
Read more...Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: When Innovation Fails, or Rather Works Too Well
The opioid crisis provides a deadly example of why innovation often is simply a new-fangled form of predation.
Read more...Far More Adults Don’t Want Children Than Previously Thought
Probling why more people arent interested in having children.
Read more...The Climate Emergency Calls for a New Approach to Mental Health
Disasters and disruptions brought on by climate change could produce collective mental health traumas at scales never before seen.
Read more...Supreme Court Rules 9-0 Against NCAA, Opening Door to Further Antitrust Challenges of Student-Athlete Compensation Bans
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Monday NCAA antitrust decision opens the door to further more sweeping challenges of the organization’s business model.
Read more...‘Managed Retreat’ from Climate Disasters Can Reinvent Cities So They’re Better for Everyone – and Avoid More Flooding, Heat and Fires
Managed retreat is a promising way to deal with rising seas…except it requires things we’re bad at, like planning and cooperation.
Read more...Summer Rerun: The Victory of Privilege
Privilege went from an idea discussed by a few activists to a mainstream concept. How does the idea work in practice? What is its history?
Read more...Why the Neoliberal Drive to Privatize Everything Is Running Out of Gas
A look at the current acceptance of neoliberal policies.
Read more...Standard Inflation Theory Leaves Out Social Conflict and Costs
What That Means For Biden’s Inflation Policy Trilemma
Read more...A Nation that Runs on Bribes: Civics Lessons from our Vaccine Rollout
If we start bribing citizens to get vaccinated, what else are we going to end up needing to bribe them to do?
Read more...Head Start’s Long-Run Impacts on Human Capital and Labor-Market Outcomes
A large-scale preschool program – even one with less per-child expenditures than model preschools – can deliver long-run benefits to students.
Read more...Ranked Choice and Most-Least Voting
Ranked choice voting is getting a following in America. But how does it work in practice compared to similar-seeming systems like most-least?
Read more...Driver’s License Suspensions for Failure to Pay Fines Inflict Particular Harm on Black Drivers
Yet another way that biased policing does financial harm to blacks and people of color.
Read more...From Tragedy to Hesitancy: How Public Health Failures Boosted COVID-19 Vaccine Scepticism
Who’d have thunk it? Public health incompetence fuels distrust in official recommendations, like vaccines.
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