An enormous body of academic and journalistic work argues that opaque recommendation algorithms contribute to political polarization by promoting increasingly extreme content.
In almost every state, courts can jail those who fail to pay fines, fees, and other court debts—even those resulting from traffic or other non-criminal violations.
Fertilizer is critical to agricultural supply chains, but its use results in downstream externalities in the form of aquatic hypoxic zones and algal blooms.
Depression can affect individuals’ attitudes by enhancing cognitive biases and altering perceptions of control.
Reflections of a career-long public policy professor at a time of global upheaval.
Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink offer the most valuable practical writing advice today.
The Republican presidential candidate’s foreign-policy platform is false advertising.
Human decision-makers frequently override the recommendations generated by predictive algorithms, but it is unclear whether these discretionary overrides add valuable private information or reintroduc
In this working paper, Stephen Goldsmith and Ryan Streeter argue that the Republican Party is philosophically adrift, and it has been for a while.
Background: Many adolescents do not receive basic preventive care such as influenza vaccinations.
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