"Readings in Japanese Natural Language Processing" surveys a wide range of texts that explore Japanese morphology and syntactic analysis, discourse, and natural language process applications. Presenting such techniques in a manner accessible to those...

Matthew Weiner's Emmy-winning series "Mad Men" has earned wide critical acclaim in its seven seasons. What is it about these impeccably dressed men and women of midcentury Madison Avenue that fascinates us? Decades later, when Weiner's iconic charact...

The papers in Volume 29 of "Tax Policy and the Economy" illustrate the depth and breadth of the taxation-related research by NBER research associates, both in terms of methodological approach and in terms of topics. In the first paper, former NBER Pr...

The concepts of gender, love, and family – as well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and family formation – have become more fluid under a society-wide softening of boundaries, hierarchies, and...

If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing. In the United States, the debates surrounding this trajectory can be so fierce that it feels like we are in uncharted waters. As Christop...

City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world – from highway interchanges and retention ponds to zoning documents and conference rooms – yet most seem to have a poor understanding of the materiality of the world in which th...

In the 1840s the Finnish orientalist Georg August Wallin traveled in the Middle East, where he collected material on Arabic dialects. Considered an eminent scholar by his contemporaries, he died an untimely death shortly after his seven-year journey...

Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) was a medical reformer in a great age of reform – an occasional and reluctant vivisectionist, a theistic popularizer of natural science, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a surgeon, an artist, and a teacher. He was among the...

John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members – among the...

Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first to draw attention to Americans' propensity to form voluntary associations – and to join them with a fervor and frequency unmatched anywhere in the world. For nearly two centuries, we have sought to understand...