To Test or Not? Singular or Multiple Heritage? Genomic Ancestry Testing on Americans' Racial Identity
DNA ancestry testing may seem frivolous, but it points to two crucial questions: First, what is the relationship, if any, between biology and race?
Research
Uproar Over Hilary Clinton's E-Mails Misses the Point
A Theory of Civil Disobedience
From the streets of Hong Kong to Ferguson, Missouri, civil disobedience has again become newsworthy. What explains the prevalence and extremity of acts of civil disobedience?
Viral Engagement: Fast, Cheap, and Broad, but Good for Democracy?
How have online protests—like the recent outrage over the Komen Foundation’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood—changed the nature of political action?
War and Democratic Constraint: How the Public Influences Foreign Policy
Why do some democracies reflect their citizens' foreign policy preferences better than others?
Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit...While Reading the Paper: Reporting Bias in Democracies and Autocracies
Filtering Revolution: Reporting Bias in International Newspaper Coverage of the Libyan Civil War
Reporting bias – the media’s tendency to systematically underreport or overreport certain types of events – is a persistent problem for participants and observers of armed conflict.
Culture vs. Kultur, or a Clash of Civilizations: Public Intellectuals in the United States and the Great War, 1917-1918
This article analyzes the historical conditions for, and implications of, the attitudes and conduct of a number of prominent or influential public intellectuals in the United States during the Great W
Reflections on a Survey of Global Perceptions of International Leaders and World Powers
A recent survey asks citizens from 30 countries for their views on 10 influential national leaders who have a global impact. There are many rich findings among the data.
Propaganda and Conflict: Evidence from the Rwandan Genocide
This paper investigates the role of mass media in times of conflict and state-sponsored mass violence against civilians.
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