Why it still pays for reporters to call up experts: Journalists at work in a newsroom, 2012. (Jean-Philippe KsiazekAFP/Getty Images)
It is all too easy for unsupported claims to get published in scientific publications. How can journalists address this?
About The Author:
Andrew Gelman is Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University. You can follow him on his blog as well as on The Monkey Cage.
Nobel prize laureate John Forbes Nash, mathemetician and game theorist, in May, 2005. (China Photos/Getty Images)
The study of strategic interactions is gaining popularity across disciplines, but that does not mean its relevance is universal.
When generous tipping is not the answer: Waitress at Denny's in Emeryville, Calif., 2009 (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Economists are ignoring a class of workers whose wages have been frozen for decades.
About The Author:
Sylvia Allegretto, Ph.D., is an economist and co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California, Berkeley. You can follow her on The Berkeley Blog.
Night traffic in Tokyo, Japan, July, 2009. (Photo by Kimimasa Mayama/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The increasing sophistication of data collection and analysis gives us deeper insights into human behavior — and how we make decisions about everyday travel.
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David M. Levinson is the Richard P. Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He blogs at The Transportationist, and you can follow him on Twitter @trnsprttnst.
Where is agency when you need it? A bank run in Massachusetts, October 1929. (OFF/AFP/Getty Images)
A new generation of scholars is rewriting the story of capitalism by shaking off the old assumptions of both the Left and Right.
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Louis Hyman is assistant professor of History at the ILR School, Cornell University. You can follow him on Twitter at @louishyman.
Ethan Perlstein, "gentleman scientist" and digital native. (Photo courtesy of Ethan Perlstein)
Can social media and crowdfunding sustain independent researchers?
About The Author:
Euny Hong is the author of the novel Kept: A Comedy of Manners as well as a forthcoming book on South Korea’s national strategy to become the world’s top exporter of popular culture. She previously worked at France 24 in Paris and at The Financial Times. You can follow her on Twitter @euny.
Still at the center. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Newsmakers)
The United States not only continues to dominate global finance but has become even more central since the 2008 crisis. How did this happen?
About The Author:
Sarah Bauerle Danzman is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. W. Kindred Winecoff is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Indiana University Bloomington. This piece is adapted from an article in the March 2013 edition of Perspectives on Politics.
Italian Police Commissioner Giovanni De Gennaro (R) receives a certificate of honor and a medal from Yad Yashem Chairman Shevach Weiss, at a ceremony to honor late Italian police chief Giovanni Palatucci, 10 February 2005. (GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images)
In the case of Giovanni Palatucci, ideological questions are overshadowing objective research.
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Robert A. Ventresca is Professor of History at King’s University College at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. He is the author most recently of Soldier of Christ: The Life of Pope Pius XII (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013).
Activists urge the Supreme Court to overturn Citizens United, February, 2012. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
A debate is opening up on the left over the role of firms as social and political actors.
Rep. Rush Holt, back in the classroom. (credit: Washington office of Rush Holt)
A congressman reflects on his career switch from professor to politician.
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Rep. Rush Holt (D) represents New Jersey’s 12th District and serves on the Committees on Education and the Workforce as well as Energy and Commerce. As one of the only two physicists in Congress, he earned his Ph.D. at NYU and served as Assistant Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory from 1989 to 1999.
