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Contagious Crime
Researchers investigating the "broken windows theory" of crime control found that people are twice as likely to steal from a graffiti-covered mailbox as from one that's pristine.
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The Research Boomerang
Doubling the budget of the National Institutes of Health during the Clinton and Bush administrations has had the curious effect of leading to less biomedical research.
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The Sickening State
The most optimistic national estimates
show Russia’s population falling to 136 million in 2020, down from 141 million today. Life expectancy in Russia is among the lowest in the developed world.
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Headscarf Politics
Why would France waste resources on such an economically and politically marginal issue as banning headscarves in schools?
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A Second Surge?
The wisdom of employing an Iraq-like surge in Afghanistan.
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The Local Government Colossus
State governments think it makes sense to consolidate local governing bodies, but at the local level the benefits seem abstract and largely unproven.
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The Clueless Voter
Some political scientists have called for compulsory voting to force citizens to participate in the electoral process. It won't work.
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Spice and Status
New research reveals that spice was not used in medieval times to mask the taste of rancid meat, but rather to infuse good meat with the sweet-sour flavor that was the epitome of the fashionable cooking of the era.
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