Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
There is debate over whether Asian American students are admitted to selective colleges and universities at lower rates than white students…
This report on elite philanthropy presents the latest findings from the Harvard Kennedy School Rajawali Foundation Institute’s China…
Background
We aimed to characterize the prevalence of social disconnection and thoughts of suicide among older adults in the United States…
Mark Warren grew up in a family that taught him a lot of lessons. In my third interview with Warren, as I probed for details of his life,…
On April 13, 2023, the Academy presented its Talcott Parsons Prize for distinguished and original contributions to the social sciences to…
There is widespread concern that academic freedom is threatened by growing demands for intellectual conformity and attempted censorship…
In “Into the Bright Sunshine,” Samuel G. Freedman makes the case that Humphrey was part of the vanguard in the fight for civil rights.
Inequalities in voter participation between groups of the population pose a problem for democratic representation. We use administrative…
Predictive algorithms are now commonly used to distribute society’s resources and sanctions. But these algorithms can entrench and…