The dip in the US birthrate isn't a crisis, but the fall in immigration may be

Immigration has historically offset America's low fertility rate, but the recent dramatic drop in immigration threatens that trend.

Adrian Raftery, Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington • conversation
June 21, 2021 ~7 min

Experts: Anti-Asian racism is snarled up with misogyny

Sara Savat-WUSTL • futurity
March 26, 2021 ~7 min


Losing cultural context in emergency communication can be a matter of life and death

Misunderstanding disaster warnings can have catastrophic consequences. New research shows how easily modern emergency communications can get lost in translation.

Jason von Meding, Associate Professor, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience, University of Florida • conversation
March 18, 2021 ~7 min

A new goal for soccer: Improving attitudes toward refugees

While a national soccer win can stoke anti-refugee sentiment, messaging promoting diversity can reverse this effect.

Will Sullivan | MIT Governance Lab • mit
March 15, 2021 ~7 min

Meatpacking plants have been deadly COVID-19 hot spots – but policies that encourage workers to show up sick are legal

Thousands of workers at meat- and poultry-processing plants have contracted COVID-19, and hundreds have died. A legal scholar recommends ways to make their jobs safer.

Ruqaiijah Yearby, Professor of Law, Saint Louis University • conversation
Feb. 26, 2021 ~9 min

Clicks on a job site reveal hiring discrimination

A broad look at recruiters' actions on a job website reveals who experiences hiring discrimination and when, report researchers.

ETH Zurich • futurity
Jan. 27, 2021 ~7 min

American teens see bullying immigrants as more ‘okay’

Teens whose parents were born in the US are more likely to think bullying is acceptable when the victim is an immigrant, researchers find.

Matt Shipman-NC State • futurity
Jan. 5, 2021 ~5 min

Taking the pulse of local politics

Asya Magazinnik finds disparate implementation of national policies in jurisdictions across the United States.

Leda Zimmerman | Department of Political Science • mit
Nov. 19, 2020 ~8 min


Brain scans show partisan response to key words

Brain scans of liberals and conservatives indicate "a neural basis to partisan biases, and some language especially drives polarization."

Yasmin Anwar-UC Berkeley • futurity
Oct. 22, 2020 ~9 min

Undocumented immigration either cuts or has no effect on crime

"[U]ndocumented immigrants had no significant effect on violent crime and actually had a significant negative effect on property crime."

Bert Gambini-Buffalo • futurity
Oct. 8, 2020 ~6 min

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