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Finance
Statistics as a Form of Knowledge
March 1, 2023Quentin Bruneau
Technology
Truth, Damned Truth, and Statistics: A Quiet Mathematical Revolution Reshaping our Algorithmically-Mediated World
July 20, 2022Lydia Nobbs, Justin Joque
A black and white photograph of an unidentified woman. Most of the portrait has been worn away. There is an inscription in blue ink on the front of the photograph: [To Paula, / Love, Lynne]. The back of the photograph has blue ink and the remnants of what was some notation that has worn away.
Literature
Writing Rooted in Community
June 11, 2026Colette Estelle, Giada Scodellaro
Uncategorized
The Unemployment Rate Is Not a Fact
July 5, 2019Patrick Sheehan
Theory & Practice
Has Capitalism Seen Its Day?
May 9, 2014Wolfgang Streeck
Race
Black Lives Matter: The Politics of Race and Movement in the 21st Century
January 18, 2016Deva Woodly
Uncategorized
A Permanent Scar
January 12, 2022William Hayward
Feature
Sexual Assault and the Other
August 30, 2018Maria Bucur
Feature
Unstable or Low-Wage Jobs Make Up More than Half of Older Workers’ Job Growth
May 6, 2018Teresa Ghilarducci
Verticals
Reductio ad Absurdum
November 6, 2017Christian Garland
Photograph of three smiling people throwing their hands up in the air
Sub-Saharan Africa
Learning Trust and Reconciliation in Rwanda
June 22, 2026Tamir Bell, Paul Draus, Anna Müller
Farmworkers pick strawberries in long rows of fields. One worker in a black hoodie and muddy boots carries a box of berries on their shoulder while others harvest in the background. The image underscores the presence of immigrants in agricultural fieldwork and their labor in the U.S. agricultural system.
Migration
Immigration Is Imperative
September 25, 2025Purushottam Bhandare, Katerina Canyon

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