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The Report Card on Guaranteed Income Is Still Incomplete

A three-year analysis of unconditional cash stipends concluded that the initiative has had some success, but not the transformational impact its proponents hoped for.

By Emma Goldberg

Books and Literature Classical Music Colleges and Universities Crawford, Richard (1935-2024) Deaths (Obituaries) Research University of Michigan

Richard Crawford, Leading Scholar of American Music, Dies at 89

American Music was a marginal subfield in the 1960s when he began his research as a student, and then as a faculty member, at the University of Michigan.

By William Robin

Computer Chips Computers and the Internet Deaths (Obituaries) International Business Machines Corporation Lynn Conway Supercomputers Transgender University of Michigan

Lynn Conway, Computing Pioneer and Transgender Advocate, Dies at 86

She made significant contributions at IBM, but she lost her job because of her conviction that she inhabited the wrong body. She later fought for transgender rights.

By Trip Gabriel

Books and Literature Deaths (Obituaries) Princeton University Slavery (Historical) The Return of Martin Guerre (Book) The Return of Martin Guerre (Movie) University of California, Berkeley University of Michigan University of Toronto

Natalie Zemon Davis, Historian of the Marginalized, Dies at 94

She wrote of peasants, unsung women, border crossers and, most popularly, Martin Guerre, a 16th-century village impostor recalled in a 1980s movie.

By Elsa Dixler