We may be living through an unprecedented nightmare hellscape for morality, crime, happiness, the economy, music, movies, science, sports and more.

But at least we can take some solace that we’re living in the golden age of data journalism.

By Andrew Van Dam

With the YIMBY Act, the pro-housing movement is inching closer to its biggest legislative win yet.

Humanity as a whole *vastly underinvests in experimentation*, partly because people mistakenly object on grounds of fairness even though more experimentation would make everyone better off in an ex ante sense.

It's really striking how much research there is on gender disparities in hiring, when the gender disparity in layoffs is enormous and much less discussed!

Writing conference abstracts before you’ve cleaned the data.

Fyi we offer planning grants for situations like this - if you're studying crime/CJ policy in the US. Email me.

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'Since 1994, Congress has appropriated more than $20 billion for the Community Oriented Policing Services [COPS] grant program.... Has this program made communities safer?'

Why, yes it has! There's strong research showing this!

Oddly, that's not what this op-ed says. 🙃