Yes, all questions had pub_date set either by a population script or by the admin interface. Anyway, it's working as it should. My problem was that the question I thought was published most recently (i.e., Jan 2017) had in fact been set with a publication date of Jan 2016. Apologies for wasting anybody's time! But the answers here helped to figure this out - thanks.
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