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The Myth of the Marriage Market

A few years back someone had created a website called the Female Delusion Calculator. Using data collected from surveys conducted by the…

Mar 1, 2024

The Myth of the Marriage Market

Mar 1, 2024

The Rise of the School-to-Marriage Pipeline

She’s talking back”, complains Madan Mohan to his daughter’s principal, Raji Nambissan. His daughter, Varsha, had signed up for a…

May 27

The Rise of the School-to-Marriage Pipeline

May 27

Anatomy of a Lynching: Moral Panics in the Age of Social Media

It was evening when Ramsakhi Devi received a frantic phone call from her adult grandsons, Vikas and Gautam Verma. The brothers, who…

Mar 18

Anatomy of a Lynching: Moral Panics in the Age of Social Media

Mar 18

What Happens When Therapy Makes it Worse?

Overlooked for generations, mental health awareness has grown exponentially in the past decade. More people are beginning to take their…

Oct 27, 2024

What Happens When Therapy Makes it Worse?

Oct 27, 2024

How the Amish Quietly Transformed an Entire Public School District

The Amish have embraced public education and are remaking it in their own image. In Holmes County, Ohio several public elementary schools…

Sep 22, 2024

How the Amish Quietly Transformed an Entire Public School District

Sep 22, 2024

Pregnancy Pacts and Why Some Girls Choose to Become Teen Moms

When word got out that the girls at Gloucester High School had formed a pregnancy pact, promising to get pregnant and collectively raise…

Aug 25, 2024

Pregnancy Pacts and Why Some Girls Choose to Become Teen Moms

Aug 25, 2024

Worst of Both Worlds? Why China’s Grandmas Do Not Want Another Grandchild

When 55-year-old Liu Xiumei’s daughter told her that she was going to have a second child, they assumed she would be ecstatic. After all…

Aug 15, 2024

Worst of Both Worlds? Why China’s Grandmas Do Not Want Another Grandchild

Aug 15, 2024

Kamala Harris and the History of the Afro-Indian People

Vice-President Kamala Harris’ racial ancestry is trending on social media again, following President Biden’s July 21st withdrawal from the…

Jul 29, 2024

Kamala Harris and the History of the Afro-Indian People

Jul 29, 2024

5 Failed Marketing Campaigns That Tried to Raise the Birth Rate

Case studies in how NOT to design a marketing campaign.

Jul 22, 2024

5 Failed Marketing Campaigns That Tried to Raise the Birth Rate

Jul 22, 2024

Want to Boost the Birth Rate? Stop Helicopter Parenting

In the United States, soccer moms spend the better part of their evenings and weekends shuttling their kids from one extra-curricular…

Jul 14, 2024

Want to Boost the Birth Rate? Stop Helicopter Parenting

Jul 14, 2024

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akhivae

A public policy professional writing deep dive articles on making sense of the stories behind the stats and graphs. New articles weekly!

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