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In the October cover story, Ta-Nehisi Coates explored America's history of mass incarceration over the past 50 years. He traced the intellectual basis of the policy in part to Daniel [...]

CUZ Or the Life and Times of Michael A. By Danielle Allen Illustrated. 243 pp. Liveright Publishing. $24.95. On the morning of Sept. 15, 1995, a 15-year-old black boy named [...]

It was 29 years ago that the legendary gospel artist Shirley Caesar first recorded the song ''Hold My Mule.'' It was a banger then, and it still is. She has [...]

''The best people.'' This refrain rang throughout Donald Trump's presidential campaign; at times, it seemed to be his justification for being in the race at all. He wasn't a politician [...]

There's a story about Muhammad Ali that might have been lost to history, disappearing among all the other Ali esoterica, but for The Los Angeles Times photographer Boris Yaro. On [...]

Early in the morning on Election Day, my parents woke up, got dressed and drove around the Capital Beltway from Maryland into Virginia, where my father dropped my mother off [...]

On its face, inviting a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan onto your radio show is a risky proposition with very little upside. The situation gets even more [...]

MEXICO CITY, 1968 DICK FOSBURY OUTSMARTS THE HIGH JUMP By TOM WHYMAN When I was a kid, I was a terrible athlete: weak, uncoordinated, too fat, out of breath walking [...]

AbstractWhat is the role of migration in regional evolutions? I document that within-US migration causes a reduction in the unemployment rate of the receiving city over several years. To establish this causal effect, I construct an instrument using out-migration of other places and predict its destination from historical patterns. The decline in unemployment is due to housing. Housing is durable, so increased demand causes a surge of new houses and construction jobs. Additionally, migrants’ housing demand raises prices, increasing borrowing and nontradable employment. This finding implies the endogenous response of migration amplifies local labor demand shocks by about a third. (JEL J61, J64, R21, R23, R31)

A major shift is under way in the Internet content delivery marketplace. Providers that used to measure their success by subscriber numbers now understand that their longevity is really tied [...]

Content delivery network services let providers cut costs and dodge the capacity trap. The market for technology services is a lot like a pendulum moving in tandem with Wall Street's [...]

Network service providers are finding that offering plain old network access isn't enough to thrive in today's increasingly competitive marketplace. Corporations are looking for new online options to increase the [...]

The more things change, the more they stay the same-or so Internet protocol (IP) service providers are discovering as they learn what their telephony predecessors realized years ago. Take the [...]

Broadband access technologies such as digital subscriber line (DSL), wireless and cable modems are providing residential and business users with greater access speeds to the Internet. The faster connections are [...]

Among Web sites, the competition to attract and hold onto revenue-generating visitors is fiercer than ever. Online expectations change instantly with the latest techno-fad. Brick-and-mortar companies have only begun to [...]

!-- Template -->Expert Copy Template v3 TC12Expt0802-01 Outsourcing Apps To ASPs August 2, 2000 What's your take on outsourcing applications to ASPs? Do you see IT departments outsourcing a significant […]

The applications service provider (ASP) market is off to a rocky start. Market forecasts range wildly from millions to billions of dollars over the next few years. Many top-notch service [...]

Web sites are a magnet for Murphy's law. If there is the slightest possibility for something to degrade site performance, it will. In interviews with large companies (those with more [...]

Are you ready for AOL TV? Someday soon you will receive yet another AOL install CD in the mail, this one with the slogan 'I Want My AOL TV' tattooed [...]

The turning of the millennium was painfully uneventful for doomsayers and patrons of apocalyptic forecasts. Networks still operate, planes still fly, the earth remains safely in orbit and Y2K fears [...]

Based on recent merger-and-acquisition and IPO activity, content delivery service providers are in hot demand. Take Digital Island. Like other content delivery providers, it offers a service that enables a [...]

As an industry analyst, I'm frequently asked what the next killer app will be. According to Larry Downes and Chunka Mui (Unleashing the Killer App, Harvard Business School Press, 1998), [...]

Every mature industry develops the tools needed to gather important information on customer behavior. For example, grocery stores track customer purchases for numerous reasons, one of which is to determine [...]

Boxing is a sport filled with nonwhite stars. So why aren't there any in boxing movies? Outside of biopics, black actors rarely get to play the hero in boxing films. [...]

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles published in the October 2015 issue of the journal such as "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, "RFK Was a Crummy Lawyer" by James Neff, and an article on the U.S. Constitution by Yoni Applebaum.

Wider adoption of Lean‐Agile software development methods has prompted interest in tailoring these small team methods to meet the needs of larger organizations. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for Lean Software Development incorporates many Lean‐Agile best practices and has become a leading proposition for applying agile methods at scale (Leffingwell 2016). To help managers visualize how SAFe might work for their organization, we have created a management flight simulator based on a system dynamics model of SAFe. Using these tools, decision makers who consider transitioning their organizations to SAFe can perform virtual experiments by changing parameters such as team size, developer experience level, sprint length, and whether developers perform continuous integration to explore how these programmatic decisions affect the rate at which work is completed. Such process prototyping can provide a justification for adopting SAFe, which often includes costly training and organizational restructuring, by forming a basis for quantifying return on investment. We applied our system dynamics model to a real program and showed that instituting continuous integration can improve throughput by 54% while decreasing defects by 88%.

The article talks about the restoration of artist George W. Lambert's work "The Sonnet," which was painted in 1907. The author says that the paintings conservation department of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has been examining and preparing works in preparation for the launch of the George W. Lambert retrospective in June 2007. When the painting came in the Gallery's conservation studio, it is said that it had a heavy layer of surface grime and a discolored varnish. The conservation department conducted surface cleaning and varnish removal of the painting.