From the Burnerverse to Cornell to Clavicular, our society is all too happy to shift the cost and burden of sexual violence and male onto victims to protect men

Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.

Living through the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century has many Americans changing their eating and food shopping habits.

Gordon Wood’s argument for the “radicalism” of the Revolution reveals something profound — and hopeful — about America.

(Forthcoming Article) - This paper studies whether more skilled physicians improve birth outcomes. We exploit a natural experiment in Colombia, where newly graduated physicians were randomly assigned to Local Health Centers (LHCs), to estimate the causal effect of being treated by a more skilled physician—measured using medical graduation exam scores—on newborn health. We find that mothers treated at LHCs assigned physicians with exam scores one standard deviation higher were 9.14 percent less likely to give birth to an unhealthy newborn. Suggestive evidence indicates that more skilled physicians achieve these results by better targeting prenatal care toward high-risk mothers without reducing care for others.

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We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.

The past week has revealed Trump’s policy road map to veto one-party rule. Will Americans let him follow it?

Even Republicans who once said violent rioters should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law declined to criticize the presidential clemency for violent offenders, saying it was time to move o...