Political Stereotyping (cont.): The Case of The Gun Shop That Stopped Selling Machine Guns
More than 150,000 have viewed the above video since 2010. Had you? Our own Tom Jacobs recently reported…
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Climate Change: Harbinger of ‘End Times’?
Somewhere, James Hansen is weeping. Last week, we reported on American attitudes toward climate change, a post-Kyoto framework,…
Economics: (Groucho) Marx on Fiscal Cliffs
Via Imprint’s J. J. Sedelmaier: With the fiscal cliff negotiations theatrical and occasionally farcical, it comes as some…
Taxing the 1 Percent, With a French Accent
The question Lindsey McCormack posed around the filing deadline for U.S. income taxes last year was, “How high…
California’s Unemployed Snub Farm Jobs
As everyone who has read “The Grapes of Wrath” knows, the last time we had a major national…
Spoofing Peer Review: Sock Puppets Publish or Perish
Academic research is the lifeblood of Pacific Standard, and without getting too high and mighty, its rigor is…
Some Stuff You May Have Missed This Week
The crazy lengths—fraud, hacking—some go to generate positive academic peer reviews The drug-running tunnel capital of the Southwest…
New UC Logo Gets Flushed
Here are the dueling logos. Which looks the most like a toilet flushing? After a flurry of protests…
School Shootings and Gun Control
The tragic mass killings at that Connecticut school will undoubtedly spur renewed calls for gun control. According to…
Domestic Violence is Way, Way Down
Good news about a bad phenomenon: the number of Americans getting attacked by their spouses and (so-called) lovers…