Minority voters tell their stories
By Paru R Shah, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; David Cook Martín, Grinnell College, and Marcus Anthony Hunter, University of California, Los Angeles
Editor’s note: voter turnout...
The case for closing down women’s prisons
By Patricia O'Brien, University of Illinois at Chicago
It sounds like a radical idea. Stop incarcerating women, and close down women’s prisons. But in the...
Brownbagging it not always the healthy choice for kids’ school lunches
By Alisha Farris, Virginia Tech
Ravenous students, busy parents, nutrition professionals and school officials all have their own ideas about what belongs on the school...
California’s severe drought shows why we need to raise the price of water
By Randy Simmons, Utah State University
Last January, California Governor Jerry Brown declared a State of Emergency following projections of severe drought. State bureaucrats and...
Feeling anxious makes it harder to stop feeling anxious
By Adam Heenan, Queen's University, Ontario
Anxious people tend to perceive their world in a more threatening way. That is, the more anxious a person...
Children born just after the Berlin Wall fell were lower achievers – here’s why
By Arnaud Chevalier, Royal Holloway and Olivier Marie, Maastricht University
Germany and the rest of Europe are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the collapse of...
Will all the ethical social scientists please stand up?
By Mark Israel, University of Western Australia
Social scientists have to get better at recognising and responding to ethical problems. Although economists, political scientists and...
From electric ink to aromapoetry – the physical book is not dead, it’s about...
By Andrew Prescott, King's College London
“Analogue” and “digital” are the two polar opposites of our modern world. The word “analogue” has become our catch-all...
