Where do human societies come from? The drive to answer this question took on a new urgency in the nineteenth century, when a generation of…
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…
There is debate over whether Asian American students are admitted to selective colleges and universities at lower rates than white students…
In “Into the Bright Sunshine,” Samuel G. Freedman makes the case that Humphrey was part of the vanguard in the fight for civil rights.
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• There is active debate over whether to consider patient race and ethnicity when
estimating disease risk. By accounting for…
The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack of centralized sources of election data. We…
Algorithmically optimizing the provision of limited resources is commonplace across domains from healthcare to lending. Optimization can…
Systemic racism is deeply embedded in U.S. healthcare and economic systems and remains pervasive in social policies and organizational…
Reading these essays gave me a thrill of excitement like the one I felt on hearing that the #MeToo movement had extended even into China.…