Medical journals, law reviews, and literary magazines are grappling with AI-generated submissions - The Boston Globe

While these publications serve relatively narrow audiences, their contributions are key for new thinking about the world.

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Volume 155 Issue 1-2 | Daedalus | MIT Press

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Three MIT Press journals lead their fields with Clarivate No. 1 rankings

MIT Press journals Computational Linguistics, International Security, and The Review of Economics and Statistics were ranked No 1. by Clarivate’s 2026 impact factors.

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Opinion | Let’s Get Something Clear About America’s National Identity

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The Cold War and the Soviet KGB's Same-Sex Entrapment Operations in the 1950s and 1960s: The Perpetrator in Focus

In August 1963, The New York Times informed its readers that a U.S. citizen had been arrested in the USSR.1 According to the newspaper, the Soviet travel agency Intourist had announced that Bernard L....

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Hating Theory Today

Abstract. Drawing on nearly a decade of research, this essay investigates the hatred of theory on the political right. The phobic fascination with theory is over a century old. Yet, in recent years, i...

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Is Hybrid Work the Best of Both Worlds? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Abstract. This paper reports causal evidence on how the extent of hybrid work—the number of days worked from home relative to days worked from office—affects employee attitudes and performance. Worker...

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Public School Funding, School Quality, and Adult Crime

Abstract. This paper asks whether increasing public school funding can be an effective long-run crime-prevention strategy in the United States. Specifically, we examine the effect of increases in funding early in children’s lives on the likelihood that they are arrested as adults. We exploit quasi-experimental variation in public school funding, leveraging two natural experiments in Michigan and a novel administrative data set linking the universe of Michigan public school students to adult criminal justice records. First, research design exploits variation in operating expenditures due to Michigan’s 1994 school finance reform, Proposal A. second design exploits variation in capital spending by leveraging close school district capital bond elections in a regression discontinuity framework. In both cases, we find that students exposed to additional funding during elementary school were substantially less likely to be arrested in adulthood. We show that the social benefits of increasing school funding are greater than the costs, even when considering only the crime-reducing benefits.

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The MIT Press announces winners for 2026 Faculty and Alumni Book Awards image

Two new award categories this year for textbooks and children’s books.

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So... IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_ - The Scholarly Kitchen

How are two competing neuroscience journals faring since the editorial board of one departed to create the other?

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Uber and Traffic Fatalities

Abstract. Previous studies of the effect of ridesharing on traffic fatalities have yielded inconsistent conclusions. We revisit this question using proprietary data from Uber measuring monthly ridesha...

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Global Environmental Politics amid Geopolitical Turbulence

Abstract. Over the past decade, three overlapping trends have fundamentally reshaped and now characterize the global geopolitical order: the rise of emerging powers, increasing military conflicts, and...

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Opinion | The Thucydides Trap Is Coming for America

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Notebooks of a Wandering Monk

Matthieu Ricard began his spiritual transformation at the age of twenty-one, in Darjeeling, India, when he met Tibetan teacher Kangyur Rinpoche, who deeply i...

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THE RULE OF LAW

The concept of the rule of law is invoked for purposes that are both numerous and diverse, and that concept is often said to overlap with, or to require, an assortment of other practices and ideals, i...

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