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Why Russia is openly violating sanctions against North Korea
- Samuel Ramani
Cape Town still has water — for now. This may take political solutions as well as technical fixes.
- Lauren M. MacLean, Jennifer N. Brass, Elizabeth Baldwin and Christopher Gore
Networks of profiteers run rampant in Libya. Can they be stopped?
- Tim Eaton
Is marijuana decriminalization possible in the Middle East?
- Alexandra Blackman and Farah Samti
Nirvana, ‘Stain’: The Week In One Song
- Christopher Federico
How Brexit could kill Northern Ireland’s peace accords
- Kimberly Cowell-Meyers and Carolyn Gallaher
A new U.S. policy makes it (somewhat) easier to export drones
- Michael C. Horowitz and Joshua A. Schwartz
Turkey’s president will win the country’s snap elections. Here’s why they still matter.
- Howard Eissenstat
After the Southwest jet’s emergency landing, will Congress change airline safety rules?
- Ashley Nunes
The NRA sees a bleak Hobbesian world. So why does it want to arm individuals with guns?
- Christopher R. Hallenbrook and Ryan Reed
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  • Retraction Watch
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Flawed climate science paper “exposed potential weaknesses” in the peer review process
- Victoria Stern
Weekend reads: A new publishing scam; reproducibility as a political weapon; prosecuting predatory publishers
- Ivan Oransky
That study reporting worrisome levels of zinc in tuna? It’s being retracted
- Alison McCook
After issuing dozens of corrections to high-profile book, historian shuts down his blog
- Alison McCook
Political science has a #metoo moment
- Alison McCook
Research problems at Australian university hit the news
- Victoria Stern
Caught Our Notice: Why did Reuters remove a 3.5-year-old story?
- Alison McCook
Nutrition paper claims intervention cuts child obesity. Experts disagree.
- Alison McCook
“Youth Guru” loses turkey-neck paper that overlapped with book chapter
- amarcus41
Don’t like a paper, but don’t want to retract it? Just issue an “editorial statement”
- Nick Stockton
If the national economy is the same for everyone, why is there so much disagreement?
- David Fortunato
A risk worth taking? The effect of information in the Brexit referendum
- Davide Morisi
Legal scrubbing or renegotiation? A text-as-data analysis of how the EU smuggled an investment court into its trade agreement with Canada
- Wolfgang Alschner
Partisan motivated reasoning drives opinions on climate change among citizens and elites in the US
- Toby Bolsen
“Ivan S., rapist, soon to be Swiss” or when male migrants are pictured as a sexual danger
- Oriane Sarrasin
Double Effort for Ethnic Minorities to Get Job Interviews
- Didier Ruedin
On the Difficulty of Forecasting “Winners” in Parliamentary Elections
- Garrett Glasgow
Immigration and the Demise of Political Trust
- Lauren McLaren
Cabinet Formation and Portfolio Distribution in European Multiparty Systems
- Florian Hollenbach
The State and Future of Political Methodology
- Andreas Murr
GMI + JG = paid work as a choice for all
- John Quiggin
Superstitious
- Belle Waring
Sunday photoblogging: sculpture of divers, Oslo
- Chris Bertram
What’s in a name?
- John Quiggin
Economics in Two Lessons, Chapter 9
- John Quiggin
Spiritualism and Uncanny Fiction
- John Holbo
Blowing stuff up
- John Quiggin
Sunday photoblogging: woods outside Madison, Wisconsin
- Chris Bertram
Hackery or heresy
- John Quiggin
The History of the Uncanny Valley?
- John Holbo