News and Issues
Cancer and the Media; How Does the News Report on Treatment and Outcomes?
News reports about cancer frequently discuss aggressive treatment and survival but rarely discuss treatment failure, adverse events, end-of-life care, or death. more »
Review: Field Notes From Elsewhere by Mark C. Taylor
From the razor's edge between what we know and what we absolutely cannot know and the coping with dread draws the reader to viewpoints often far from ordinary consideration, though no distance at all from what is vital to humanity. more »
An EPI Paper, Unfair China Trade Costs Local Jobs
n terms of total jobs displaced, California was first, with 370,000 jobs lost, followed by Texas, New York, Illinois, and Florida, which all lost more than 100,000 jobs." more »
Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Research profiled in this report shows that people judge women to be less competent than men in “male” jobs unless they are clearly successful in their work. When a woman is clearly competent in a “masculine” job, she is considered to be less likable. more »
