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• There is active debate over whether to consider patient race and ethnicity when
estimating disease risk. By accounting for…
Two of the most significant concerns about the contemporary United States are the erosion of democratic institutions and the increase in…
I am about to retire from my full-time job at the university where I’ve been teaching for the past 12 years. The school has offered me an…
Who deserves to participate in local democracy? A wide body of research shows that property owners are deeply overrepresented in local…
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…
Political scientist Hakeem Jefferson (Stanford University) facilitated a discussion about race, policing, and the state of American…
Public health requires collective action—the public best addresses health crises when individuals engage in prosocial behaviors. Failure to…
In designing risk assessment algorithms, many scholars promote a “kitchen sink” approach, reasoning that more information yields more…
Automated Court Date Reminders Reduce Warrants for Arrest: Evidence from a Text Messaging Experiment
Millions of people in the U.S. every year are required to attend mandatory court dates as their cases proceed through the criminal legal…
At several points in history, politicians and commentators have proposed adding seats to the Supreme Court to accomplish partisan ends. We…