Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act that mandated federal oversight of election laws in discriminatory…
Despite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative.…
Once again, the nation confronts a potential #MeToo moment, with accusations of sexual assault and misconduct against President Trump’s…
We offer the first quantitative analysis of rape culture in the United States. Observers have long worried that biased news coverage of…
Race is one of the most elusive phenomena of social life. While we generally know it when we see it, it's not an easy concept to define.…
The American woman suffrage movement remade the U.S. Constitution and effected the broadest expansion of voting eligibility in the nation's…
For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of…