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…
Key Messages
• 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…
Political scientist Hakeem Jefferson (Stanford University) facilitated a discussion about race, policing, and the state of American…
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…
Public health requires collective action—the public best addresses health crises when individuals engage in prosocial behaviors. Failure to…