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December 18, 2015
Andrew Piper, Richard Jean So
Quantifying the Weepy Bestseller
Two professors attempt to answer the question: Are commercial novels really more sentimental than literary fiction?
November 19, 2015
Jeff Nunokawa
Dream Catchers
How a 1950s professor built a gigantic database of thoughts and feelings.
November 16, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Parents are afraid kids will tell their new Barbie too many secrets.
January 16, 2015
Sean McElwee, Marshall I. Steinbaum
No, The Decline in Marriage Did Not Increase Inequality
The New York Times' David Leonhardt gets it wrong
November 5, 2014
Sam Wang
The Polls Failed to Predict a Republican Landslide. Here's Why.
September 10, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
The Apple Watch Could Spark a Health Care Revolution
The market is already full of amazing health-tracking devices—and now it may become cool to use them
August 25, 2014
Naomi Shavin
Our Government Has No Idea How Often Police Get Violent With Civilians
August 6, 2014
Andrew Levison
Democrats Have a White Working Class Problem—and Not Just in the South
June 11, 2014
Danny Vinik
Why Didn't the Data Geeks Predict Eric Cantor's Defeat?
May 14, 2014
Evgeny Morozov
Selling Your Bulk Online Data Really Means Selling Your Autonomy
Big tech's war on the meaning of life
April 10, 2014
Darius Tahir
Nobody Blames Doctors for High Medical Costs. That's About to Change.
January 5, 2014
Brandon Alcorn, Gayle Christensen, Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Who Takes MOOCs?
For online higher education, the devil is in the data
December 6, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
Exclusive: The Obamacare Error Rate Has Fallen Dramatically
Some perspective on the latest ACA freak-out
September 13, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Ed Markey May Finally Have Found His Calling
March 26, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
What Big Data Will Never Explain
December 3, 2012
Jonathan Cohn
Is Healthcare.gov Really Working Now? Sorta

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