Tea with a Warlord
Fotini Christia interviews Afghanistan’s fierce fighters and reveals the potential for a more successful U.S. strategy
“Diagnosing” the U.S. health care system: in Soundings Magazine
The U.S. health system has been ranked second in the world in expenditures — and 38th in the world for performance. What's going on?
Fusion is not only happening in labs at MIT
Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Artist Donal Fox teaches MIT students to bridge musical genres
The math gap
MIT economists find a new reason to think that environment, not innate ability, determines how well girls do in math class
3 Questions: Jeffrey Harris on why we still don't have an HIV vaccine
The MIT economist blames inadequate incentives for the failure to develop a vaccine against the virus that causes AIDS. He argues governments should help industry create an HIV vaccine by sharing risk.
Charter schools, studied
MIT economists are trying to learn how and why some Boston charter schools were able to produce stunning results. What they discover could serve as a lesson for America’s struggling public schools.
Saving labor
Political scientist Richard Locke says our system of improving factory conditions around the world is broken.
He proposes a new solution.
Against the common gouda
The government regulates how food is produced. MIT anthropologist Heather Paxson studies the rebellious cheese-makers who reluctantly adhere to those rules.
Two from MIT elected to the Institute of Medicine
Professor of Economics Amy Finkelstein and Tyler Jacks, director of the Koch Institute, join arm of the National Academies of Science.