Starting with the Nixon administration in the early 1970s, and gaining steam throughout the next decade, the prevailing view on criminal…
The United States is a nation of immigrants. For centuries, waves of migrants and refugees have arrived in America seeking economic…
In the last week of January, the price of the stock in GameStop – an ailing brick-and-mortar video game retailer – soared 323% for the week…
Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This article documents the large, racially disparate effects…
Nearly 61 million Americans have a disability, making the group the country’s largest minority. Individuals with disabilities cut across…
Ten years after the onset of the Arab Spring, the Middle East and North Africa are torn between two visions of progress: a democratic one…
The world just witnessed the stunning sight of a mob storming the U.S. Capitol to reject the legitimacy of President-elect Joe Biden’s…
We review the substantial literature on estimating judicial ideology, from the US Supreme Court to the lowest state court. As a way to…
Having only recently read Ron Chernow’s excellent biographies of Alexander Hamilton (Chernow, 2004), George Washington (Chernow, 2010), and…
High among the US president Joe Biden’s many priorities is reinvigorating an economy that – judging by the latest employment numbers –…