Kathryn Sikkink (* 1955) is a political scientist who has contributed considerably to making human rights a field of research. Born into a…
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, developing countries appeared to be generally on a converging path with income levels in the wealthiest…
The downsides of density, including traffic congestion, contagious disease and crime, were common in Victorian London and classical Rome,…
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• Fighting a pandemic in poor countries may involve not just a trade-off between lives and livelihoods, but an even more…
China's lending boom to developing countries is morphing into defaults and debt distress. Given the secrecy surrounding China's loans, the…
The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines
This essay takes an engineering approach to ensuring that the deployment of artificial intelligence does not confound ethical principles,…
What happens to a society—and a planet—when capitalism outgrows democracy? The tensions between democracy and capitalism are longstanding,…
Who are the girls who decide to sign up for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs and coding clubs? In this…
We study the relationship between teachers' stereotypes and students' high school choice in a setting where students can enroll in more or…
Since the Founding, Supreme Court Justices have enjoyed life tenure. This helps insulate the Justices from political pressures, but it also…