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The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: The Creator of a Police Profiling Database Who Wants to Question the Ethics of Big Data

For the month of April we're profiling the individuals who made our inaugural list of the 30 top thinkers under 30, the young men and women we predict will have a serious impact on the social, political, and economic issues we cover every day here at Pacific Standard.

Avital Andrews

Social Justice

Meet the Flexians

A new professional class of movers and shakers—people who serve overlapping roles in government, business, and media with smiling finesse—is controlling the flow of power and money in America. The anthropologist Janine Wedel is bent on making us understand just how dangerous this new normal can be.

Lisa Margonelli

Economics

The Wealth of Nations: The U.S. Leads the Globe in Inequality

If the country's total wealth were distributed evenly among adults, we would all be worth more than $260,000.

Martin Hart-Landsberg

Economics

A Simple Way to Ace That Job Interview

In two experiments, applicants who had thought about a time they felt powerful came across as more impressive.

Tom Jacobs

Social Justice

Law of the Jungle: Powerful Men Have More Children

Anthropologist Christopher von Rueden's studies of a Bolivian tribe suggest that men's instinctive drive for power is a strategy to seed their descendants thickly.

Jai Ranganathan

Social Justice

Is That Behavior Ethical? The Powerful Have a Different Perspective

Power tends to bend a person's moral outlook, making one less likely to believe bending the rules is acceptable behavior.

Tom Jacobs