Why Polls Don't Work
After decades of gradual improvement, the science of predicting election outcomes has hit an accuracy crisis.
February 2016
Broken Science
What happens when cancer doctors, psychologists, and drug developers can't rely on each other's research?
Features
You Know Less Than You Think About Guns
The misleading uses, flagrant abuses, and shoddy statistics of social science about gun violence
Americans Love Pot Taxes
But hyping cannabis cash as a source of government revenue is a bad idea.
Culture & Reviews
Folk Artists vs. the State
Truckhenge, Bishop Castle, the Garden of Eden, and the anti-authoritarianism of outsider art
Civil Rights and the Right to Work
A new book finds unexpected connections between two movements that shaped the 20th century.
Editor's Note
Columns
Camera-Shy Cops Can Relax
The exoneration of the officer who killed Zachary Hammond shows police have strong defenses against viral videos.
Marco Rubio's Sweet Protectionism
The 2016 hopeful gives the feds cover to keep propping up Big Sugar.
Will Climate Change Ruin Your Sex Life?
Global warming could cool sexual passions and reduce birth rates.
Citings
Janitors Clean Up
NYC school dysfunction
You've Been Warned
Speech under fire
Who's That Hovering?
Drone regulations
Language Barrier
Prostitution in Europe
Hold That Veggie
Zero tolerance
Takings Irony
Less tax revenue
Lock-Out Suit
Antitrust laws for elections
School's Out Forever
Universal pre-K study
Two Kids for You
Chinese policy
Payday Punishment
New lending law
Weed Studies Needed
Barriers to research
The 300 in Cameroon
Troop deployment
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