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The new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is only modestly effective: What else can we do now?

The media have been busy in discussion with the results of a large clinical trial that is a new monoclonal antibody therapy, designed to treat patients with the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease....

Robert Friedland | 9 Dec 2022

Making monetary redress work

There are hundreds of thousands of survivors of abuse in care around the world. Many survivors experienced grievous physical, emotional, or sexual abuse or severe neglect while in out-of-home care. Their...

Stephen Winter | 8 Dec 2022

A New History of the United States since 1945

Do we really need another post-1945 history of the United States? That was what I asked myself when a senior editor at Cambridge University Press approached me about writing Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord:...

Salim Yaqub | 8 Dec 2022

Thinking about Muslim Sects and Schools

The Muslim community, known as the umma, is meant to be united. The Qur’an, in chapter 29, verse 92, states that “Indeed, this your umma is one umma, and I am your Lord; so worship Me.” Yet Muslims,...

Adam R. Gaiser | 6 Dec 2022

Independence and Its Affective Shockwaves

Between 1800 and 1870, much of Latin America transformed itself from a colonial possession of an embattled European empire to a collection of independent states on the political and economic vanguard...

Ana Peluffo, Ronald Briggs | 6 Dec 2022

The mean side of the force : How regression to the mean can fool us

Regression to the mean Regression to the mean is a powerful and common source of bias in interpreting data. Once understood, its potential to mislead is obvious. Yet many scientists are regularly...

Stephen Senn | 5 Dec 2022

Lying About Innovation

The federal convictions of two founders of technology companies over the last year has illustrated the fine line between the over-optimism of entrepreneurs who believe they can change the world and the...

James J. Park | 5 Dec 2022

On Authoritarianism and Democratic Liberalism in the Arab World

The conventional reading of authoritarianism and contentious politics in the Arabic speaking World has often implied that democratic liberals are entirely absent in the region, or that if they do exist,...

Line Khatib | 2 Dec 2022

The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Society in the Eighteenth-Century World

On May 12, 1720, health officials in Marseille wrote the gouverneur of the region of Provence in Paris requesting to expedite the construction of a new building for the local Bureau de la santé or Health...

Cindy Ermus | 2 Dec 2022

New kids on the block in ‘business and human rights’

Human rights violations by corporations that operate in more than one state have attracted the attention of legal scholars over the past four decades. The field of ‘business and human rights’ has,...

Aleydis Nissen | 2 Dec 2022

Diagnosing the Causes of Mass Incarceration to Develop a Cure

The United States imprisons a shocking proportion of its population, eclipsing the rates of other countries and historical norms. The past three years have produced some modest improvement, but much of...

Jeffrey Bellin | 30 Nov 2022

An Introduction to Communicative Efficiency

For a long time, linguists have thought of language as a tool for thinking. Under this view, how we use language for communication is not particularly interesting because it does not tell us anything...

Natalia Levshina | 28 Nov 2022