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…
In “Into the Bright Sunshine,” Samuel G. Freedman makes the case that Humphrey was part of the vanguard in the fight for civil rights.
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…
This paper documents the impact of popular media on racial hate by examining the first American blockbuster: 1915's The Birth of a Nation,…
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.…
Prosecutions are important, but not as the main policy lever for deterrence.
Over the past two years, and in collaboration with Dr. Erica Chenoweth and Dr. Zoe Marks of Harvard University, USIP has been collecting…
Nonviolent action (NVA) campaigns are more frequent now than ever before, yet we know comparatively little about how the demographic…
Collective vigilantism, group violence to punish perceived offenses to a community, is both global and common in the contemporary world. It…