Washington Post reporter Andrew Van Dam spotlights graduate student Hyejun Kim’s work analyzing data on knitters who used a popular pattern-sharing website to better understand how people are inspired to transform a hobby into a job. Kim found that “offline encouragement and feedback helped most talented hobbyists recognize their ability and take the first steps toward monetizing it.”

Writing for The Washington Post, Prof. Charles Stewart examines why ballots are still being counted in Florida and Georgia following the midterm elections and why the post-election night vote count favors Democrats. “Voters across the United States have demanded greater flexibility in how and when they cast their ballots,” explains Stewart. “This greater flexibility comes with a price: a delay in counting ballots.”

Writing for The Boston Globe, Una Hajdari, the Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies, examines the Trump administration’s approach to working with European countries.

The Wall Street Journal highlights a working paper co-authored by graduate student Charles Rafkin that shows how Americans with the lowest levels of education face a number of disadvantages. Rafkin and his co-author write that, “death rates for the least educated have dramatically diverged from death rates of other groups, in virtually all middle-age race and gender groups.”

On this episode of WGBH’s Living Lab Radio, Senior Lecturer Jason Jay discusses how to engage in productive and civil political conversations at the Thanksgiving dinner table. “The only hope you have for a productive conversation is to start from what we call a foundation of relatedness,” says Jay.