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Why America’s Strategy For Reducing Racial Inequality Failed
Harvard professor Christina Cross debunks the myth of the two-parent Black family.
by Saima Sidik
Cities Too Smart for Their Own Good
Ben Green warns against simple technological solutions for complex problems.
Wage stagnation: economists look to new explanations
Economists look to new explanations for wage stagnation.
Improved gene editing moves ethical questions to the fore
Advances in editing DNA propel consideration of the technology’s use in humans.
Debora Spar on technology’s role in the origins of marriage and feminism
Debora Spar argues that social change has always been driven by technology.
The positive impact of entrepreneurial immigrants
Economist William Kerr argues for streamlining immigration to attract high-skilled talent from abroad.
How physical appearance influences authority
Cherubic features benefit black male CEOs, but not other groups, underscoring the complexity of social disadvantage.
Harvard Medical School’s Bruce Walker studies “elite controllers” of HIV
The immune systems of “elite controllers” point to HIV’s vulnerabilities.
Diversity and diminishing tax revenues: research by Marco Tabellini
Can public goods survive white flight?
Is there a language of behavior?
Sandeep Datta says the brain composes behavior from pre-existing “syllables.”
A. Sloan Devlin Seeks to Decrypt the Gut Microbiome
Altering one gene in a gut microbe transforms metabolism.