The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: Mariam Asad
The top young thinkers in economics, education, political science, and more.
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The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: Crystal Abidin
The top young thinkers in economics, education, political science, and more.
Thirty Under 30: The Bright Young Minds Working to Build a Better Future
The top young thinkers in economics, education, political science, and more.
The Former Dentist Uncovering Sugar’s Rotten Secrets
University of California–San Francisco researcher Cristin Kearns dropped a promising career at the Kaiser Foundation to dig through sugar industry archives for a smoking gun. With help from the man who brought down Big Tobacco, she’s now proving that Big Sugar steered scientists away from looking at the ingredient’s harmful effects.
Glitch in the Machine
The government unleashed Big Data to shut down Medicare fraud. Why isn't it working?
How Can We Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Before Tragedy Occurs, Instead of After?
Laura's Law could provide a middle ground between the old norm of total institutionalization and the new one of total abandonment. But the statute is struggling to reconcile forestalling tragedies with patients' rights.
The Future of Work: This Is Your Job in 20 Years
World-famous scientists, CEOs, academics, and journalists on what to fear—and what to celebrate—in the new labor economy.
Making the Case for a Good-Enough Diploma
Common Core and big business have combined to make the lot of the upwardly mobile high school dropout even more dire.
Bringing the Rural Poor Into the Digital Economy
Dumas, a small town in the heart of the Arkansas Delta—where public computers and open Internet access are hard to come by—is home to an ambitious new program to teach digital literacy skills.
Confessions of a For-Profit College Inspector
Young, broke, and desperate, I worked at the heart of an emerging nationwide scandal in higher education. Here's what I saw.