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Combating the Myth of the Superpredator

In the 1990s, a handful of researchers inspired panic with a dire but flawed prediction: the imminent arrival of a new breed of “superpredators.”
via Retro Report on October 30, 2019

America’s Formerly Redlined Neighborhoods Have Changed. So Must Solutions to Rectify Them

Are New Deal-era redlining maps still the best available tools for understanding the racial wealth gap?
by Andre M. Perry, David Harshbarger via Brookings on October 14, 2019

What’s Left of Generation X

To be Gen X was to be disaffected from the consumer norms of the 1980s, but to be pessimistic about any chance for social transformation.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via Dissent on October 8, 2019
Mill building on a bustling street in Cincinnatti in 1851.

The Forgotten Urbanists of 19th-Century Boomtowns

Why some journalists amassed reams of data and published thousands of pages to promote their home cities.
by Carl Abbott via CityLab on September 19, 2019

The Misconception About Baby Boomers and the Sixties

Other than being alive during the 1960s, the baby boomers had almost nothing to do with the era's social and political upheaval.
by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on August 18, 2019
Workers exit a Koch Foods Inc., plant in Morton, Mississippi, during an ICE raid.
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The Poultry Industry Recruited Them. Now ICE Raids Are Devastating Their Communities.

How immigrants established vibrant communities in the rural South over a quarter-century.
by Angela Stuesse via Made By History on August 9, 2019
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The Constitutional Revolution a Century Ago That Is Shaping the 2020 Election

And why we need another one.
by Bruce J. Schulman via Made By History on June 21, 2019

The Forgotten History of How Abraham Lincoln Helped Rig the Senate for Republicans

The Great Emancipator has a lesson for today's Democrats about how to play constitutional hardball.
by Ian Millhiser via Think Progress on May 5, 2019

The Tragedy of 'The Tragedy of the Commons'

The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe.
by Matto Mildenberger via Scientific American on April 23, 2019

Empire of the Census

America’s long history of manipulating its headcount for political gain.
by Ed Burmila via The Baffler on March 1, 2019

Appalachian Whiteness: A History that Never Existed

The “fetishization” of Appalachia’s supposed racial and ethnic purity and Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship.
by Timothy Pratt via 100 Days in Appalachia on December 24, 2018

A New Way of Seeing 200 Years of American Immigration

To depict how waves of immigrants shaped the United States, a team of designers looked to nature as a model.
by Tanvi Misra via CityLab on December 17, 2018

U.S. Population Growth by State (1900-2017)

The population of every state, visualized like a horse race.
via Digg on November 20, 2018

An Obituary for Old Orange County, Dead at Age 129

Once reliably red, the official cause of O.C.’s passing is a case of the blue flu.
by Gustavo Arellano via Los Angeles Times on November 7, 2018
Lithograph titled "Kiss Me Quick" showing a man and a woman kissing. The woman has her hands on the hats of two children.

Sexual Revolution: Event or Process?

The most important dimension of the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s was the increased freedom of sexual speech.
by Jeffrey Escoffier, Christopher Mitchell via NOTCHES on October 11, 2018

U.S. Population Is Growing, But the House of Representatives Is Same Size as in Taft Era

How representative is the U.S. House of Representatives?
by Drew DeSilver via Pew Research Center on May 31, 2018

The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant

The link between immigration and crime exists in the imaginations of Americans, and nowhere else.
by Anna Flagg via The Marshall Project on March 30, 2018

Are the Parties Dying?

A conversation on party politics and the durability of our current political system.
by Christopher Caldwell, Michael Kazin, Frances Lee, David Karol via Democracy Journal on March 19, 2018

The Data Proves That School Segregation Is Getting Worse

This is ultimately a disagreement over how we talk about school segregation.
by Alvin Chang via Vox on March 5, 2018
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents enter an apartment complex in Dallas.
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Republicans Want to Use Immigration Policy to Make America Whiter. They’re Destined to Fail.

Policies meant to whiten America almost always backfire.
by Julia G. Young via Made By History on February 6, 2018

Are White Evangelicals Sacrificing The Future In Search Of The Past?

The religious profile of young adults today differs dramatically from that of older Americans.
by Daniel Cox via FiveThirtyEight on January 24, 2018

Virginia Is for Lovers

Fifty years after Loving v. Virginia, four scholars consider the legacy of the famous Supreme Court decision.
by Gretchen Livingston, Peter Wallenstein, Angela Gonzales, Christopher Bonastia via Contexts Magazine on January 22, 2018

The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation

'The Population Bomb' made dire predictions—and triggered a wave of repression around the world.
by Charles C. Mann via Smithsonian on January 1, 2018

Boston. Racism. Image. Reality.

The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team confronts one of the city’s most vexing issues.
by Akilah Johnson via Boston Globe on December 10, 2017
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Law & Order, Philadelphia Style

The city that just elected a civil rights lawyer as D.A. is the same city presided over for years by "Mayor Cop" Frank Rizzo.
by Sara Mayeux, Timothy Lombardo on November 17, 2017

How Racial Data Gets 'Cleaned' in the U.S. Census

The national survey offers more identity choices than ever—until those choices get scrubbed away.
by Robyn Autry via The Atlantic on November 5, 2017

What Do States Have Against Cities, Anyway?

Legislatures regularly interfere with local affairs. The reasons, according to research, will surprise you.
by Alan Ehrenhalt via Governing on November 1, 2017
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The Problem with "Reagan Democrats"

Does the trope obscure more than it illuminates about the 2016 election?
by Leah Wright Rigueur, Brent Cebul on October 19, 2017

First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society

A new study suggests that online dating is influencing levels of interracial marriage, and even the stability of marriage itself.
by Emerging Technology from the arXiv via MIT Technology Review on October 10, 2017

The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is Doing

100 years ago, a mail-order retail giant moved swiftly into the brick-and-mortar business, changing it forever.
by Derek Thompson via The Atlantic on September 25, 2017
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