The Ili Piku, aka "Magic Rabbit," of China is endangered. But Pika populations are declining globally, not just in China.

Our pick of well-researched stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. From the editors of JSTOR Daily.

In the ‘90s, racialized terms like “wilding” and “superpredators” conjured moral panic, which justified the Crime Bill and other similar propositions.

One form of preventative medicine that is important, and which health policy barely considers: social connections between people.

Does Herman Melville's 1857 novel The Confidence-Man have anything to tell us about our present day? Philip Roth thinks so.

In the 1920s car ads began changing. Specialists began to craft auto manufacturer's images solely to please their customers.

A new book is getting a lot of attention in the literary world right now…although its author died ...

How did the QWERTY keyboard became the gold standard? The answer is probably not what you'd think. Welcome to the economic concept of "path dependence."

The idea of a general strike is to shut down all but essential services in a city, region, or nation. America has had its share. A Briton invented the idea.

Issues tied to gender have often been part of broad-based popular movements, like the Zetetic movement in early nineteenth-century England.