Beginning in 2021, state legislators introduced or passed numerous bills intended to shape appropriate content in K–12 social studies…
Previous research focused on popular US Supreme Court rulings expanding rights; however, less is known about rulings running against…
How has slavery shaped the politics of the United States over the last century and a half since emancipation? Our book, Deep Roots (Acharya…
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Wub-e-ke-niew’s enormously unsettling book We Have the Right to Exist presents a version of indigenous philosophical thought as an…
After arrest, criminal defendants are often detained before trial to mitigate potential risks to public safety. There is widespread concern…
Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice, and Policy synthesizes the evidence on community-based solutions,…
Past studies have found that racial and ethnic minorities are more likely than White drivers to be pulled over by the police for alleged…
Recent work highlights the role of causality in designing equitable decision-making algorithms. It is not immediately clear, however, how…
Does personal and family history influence legislative behavior in democracies? Linking members of Congress to the census, we observe…
In studies of discrimination, researchers often seek to estimate a causal effect of race or gender on outcomes. For example, in the…