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October 7, 2016
Elizabeth C. Tippett
This Is How Wells Fargo Encouraged Employees to Commit Fraud
October 6, 2016
Philip Hackney, Brian Mittendorf
Trump’s Charity Tells Us a Lot About His Business
October 3, 2016
Jonathan Lipson
Donald Trump Isn’t Going to Create Jobs
His Atlantic City failures are proof that he can't fulfill his economic promises.
September 29, 2016
Frank T. McAndrew
Why Clowns Creep Us Out
A psychologist explains our cultural coulrophobia.
September 28, 2016
Beth Younger
What Makes A Novel Subversive?
One of the most frequently-challenged American books stars a fat protagonist in love.
September 27, 2016
Jerry Davis
What’s Driving Corporate Activism?
September 26, 2016
Nicholas D. Mirzoeff
How the Jim Crow Internet is Pushing Back Against Black Lives Matter
September 23, 2016
Brendan Cantwell
Right-Wing Reformers Aren’t the Only Threat to Public Universities
September 22, 2016
Clark D. Cunningham
The Feds Can Read Your Email, and You’d Never Know
September 19, 2016
Kyle Powys Whyte
North Dakota’s Pipeline Protest is About Climate Justice
September 16, 2016
Shontavia Johnson
The Science of Going Viral
What can memetics tell us about Internet culture?
September 15, 2016
Andrew Wood
The Twilight of the Mom and Pop Motel
September 14, 2016
David E. Clementson
Hillary Wouldn’t Be the First President To Lie About Her Health
September 12, 2016
Travis N. Rieder
The Ethics of Having Kids in a Climate Crisis
September 9, 2016
Paige Welch
Inside The Protests That Changed Miss America
September 8, 2016
Stephen Benedict Dyson
How Star Trek Almost Failed to Launch
August 30, 2016
Jonathan M. Metzl
Guns in Donald Trump’s America
August 29, 2016
Ian Anson
Why Republicans and Democrats Can’t Agree on Basic Economic Facts
August 26, 2016
Ibrahim Sirkeci, Jeffrey H. Cohen
Turkey’s Purge Could Cause a Massive Brain Drain
August 25, 2016
John Freemuth, William Lowry
Don’t Privatize National Parks
These public lands belong to everyone—and they should stay that way.

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