Stories by kawera

On Writing and Restaurant Labor

Strange Bedfellows: Finding Success by Reaching Outside Your Discipline

Culture and jihad, grimly connected through the art market's “blood antiquities”

The Ad Blocking Industry: Global, Large, Threatening

On heterogeneous objectives

A Search Engine for the Internet’s Dirty Secrets

Word for Word

Isthmus: On the Panama Canal Expansion

Stalking the Wild Madras Wearers of the Ivy League

The economics of Adele

High-Skilled Migration and Global Innovation [pdf]

When Popular Fiction Isn’t Popular: Genre, Literary, and the Myths of Popularity

How Facebook’s AI Researchers Built a Game-Changing Go Engine

How much mental energy does a politician pour into moral due diligence?

What Data Tells Us about the 2015-16 Orchestra Season

For freelancers, getting stiffed may no longer be part of the job in NY

As an employee, what are the signs that we are about to be acquired?

The Smartphone Changed the Refugee Crisis

The ISIS Oil Trade, from the Ground Up

Joseph Carpue’s file drawer experiment – and a murder mystery from 1801