Witty Women Are Less Likely to Get Promoted Than Men
A new report finds that using humor in the workplace raises the status of male employees but has the opposite effect for women.
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Saving Critical Thinking, One Joke at a Time
Humor is no laughing matter when it comes to persuading others.
PS Picks: The ‘Night Call’ Podcast
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
PS Picks: Resistancehole and Political Satire of—and From—the Left
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
Smart, Emotionally Stable People Enjoy Morbid Humor
A taste for the grotesque is no reason for embarrassment.
With the Cubs’ Win, an Enduring Metaphor Is Laid to Rest
Legal scholars have long loved to reference the baseball team’s penchant for losing. That trend can finally come…
The Serious Side of Comedy
By tracking the evolution of American humor, Kliph Nesteroff proves that comedians can do more than make us laugh. They can show us who we really are.
The Evolution of American Comedy
An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.
The Radical History of 1960s Adult Coloring Books
These subversive coloring books ridiculed pill-popping executives, hipsters, communist-hunters, and conspiracy theorists.