In March 2018, hundreds of thousands of young people walked out of school and marched on their local statehouses and on the U.S. Capitol in…
Starting with the Nixon administration in the early 1970s, and gaining steam throughout the next decade, the prevailing view on criminal…
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…
Ten years after the onset of the Arab Spring, the Middle East and North Africa are torn between two visions of progress: a democratic one…
We review the substantial literature on estimating judicial ideology, from the US Supreme Court to the lowest state court. As a way to…
In her new book, Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Assistant Professor of Public Policy Yanilda…
When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act into law, his action honored a decades-long struggle by grassroots…
Why have conservatives decried 'activist judges'? And why have liberals - and America's powerful legal establishment - emphasized…
Roughly a thousand people are killed by American law enforcement officers each
year, accounting for more than 5% of all homicides. We…