Starting with the Nixon administration in the early 1970s, and gaining steam throughout the next decade, the prevailing view on criminal…
The United States is a nation of immigrants. For centuries, waves of migrants and refugees have arrived in America seeking economic…
Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This article documents the large, racially disparate effects…
Nearly 61 million Americans have a disability, making the group the country’s largest minority. Individuals with disabilities cut across…
As Yogi Berra once said, “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.” Nothing could be truer when it comes to money in American politics. In the…
After more than a century of expanding the voting rights of previously disenfranchised groups, the American electoral system today is…
Roughly a thousand people are killed by American law enforcement officers each
year, accounting for more than 5% of all homicides. We…
Inequalities in voter participation between groups of the population pose a problem for democratic representation. We use administrative…
Scholars have increasingly drawn attention to rising levels of income inequality in the United States. However, prior studies have provided…